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By Jennifer LangTo Brian Young, the City of Surrey

holds the key that will unlock Clover-dale’s potential – more than 100 acres of city-owned property that houses the Cloverdale Fairgrounds with plenty of room to spare.

For two decades, the lands have sat dormant, despite promises to locate a trade and convention centre there, says Young, president of the Clover-dale District Chamber of Commerce.

Th e city’s preferred op-tion in 2007 called for a hotel and tourist kiosk fronting 176 Street at 62 Avenue – now the site of the Cloverdale Recreation Centre – and a 150,000-sq.-ft . trade and exhi-bition centre that would go north of the Agriplex and show barn.

A more recent plan in 2011 saw the city call for expressions of inter-est from private partners who would help build a 10,000-seat complex on

the fairgrounds.It’s now the summer of 2014 and

Young says Cloverdale is still wait-ing for the city to make good on its promise.

“What I’ve been told is, ‘we have a plan that we are working on,’” Young

said. But he says the cham-

ber, along with otherbusiness and community leaders in Cloverdale, want to have more say on shaping those plans.

Transit is a big concern.“We need a transit plan

to tie into a trade and ex-hibition centre,” he said,adding TransLink plansshow a rapid transit ex-pansion along Fraser

Highway to Langley – bypassing Clo-verdale and the fairgrounds.

“Th at’s why you consult with the community– to make sure that the interests of the people and the busi-nesses are met.”

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FILE PHOTOA festival favourite is the blueberry pie eating contest.

Berries and more in CloverdaleBy Jennifer LangIt’s a festival that showcases so much of

what Cloverdale has to off er.Th e 11th annual Cloverdale

Blueberry Festival Aug. 16 is the ultimate community celebration, blending food, family fun, music and more. Th ere’s even a good, old-fashioned pie-eating contest.

Presented by the Cloverdale BIA and the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce, the sig-nature event is the Blueberry Show ’n Shine (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), concentrated along 176 and 176A streets. Cloverdale’s main drag turns into a pedestrian-friendly boulevard

fi lled with restored and custom motorcy-cles, trucks and street rods. Be sure to chat up the owners – they love to talk about

their metal and machine babies. Peruse vendors markets and

local merchants, and fuel up at community pancake breakfasts and barbecues. Both the Clover-dale Legion and the Cloverdale Lions Club will be serving up blueberry pancake breakfasts, starting at 7:30 a.m. And the Clo-verdale Rotary Club hosts a bar-becue at Hawthorne Square, next to the main stage, featuring DJ Chuck and Elvis Elite (Steve El-

liott), back to woo the crowds.

Under the clock at Surrey Museum Pla-za, look for the Cloverdale United Church’s popular blueberry pie sale, alongside the Blueberry Arts Festival with art, perfor-mances and more from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Inside the museum, check out the free Fibre Craft s Festival. Outside, the Surrey Pioneer Firefi ghters Association holds a Fire Truck Open House from 1-4 p.m.

Th e B.C. Country Music Association presents the Berry Country Music Show-case at Brick Yard Station, where there’s also a sidewalk sale, the Outlaw RC Blue-berry 500 race, Kids Area, berry vendors and more.

For full coverage of the 11th annual Cloverdale Blueberry Festival, turn to page 9.

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The 11th annual Cloverdale Blueberry Festival is the ultimate community celebration

Still waiting for a trade centre

JENNIFER LANG PHOTOCloverdale Chamber of Commerce President Brian Young, fl anked by Paul Orazietti (left) and Rob Paterson of theCloverdale Business Improvement Association, holds a copy of a 2007 City of Surrey corporate report recommending options for a trade and convention centre at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds.

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Th is past weekend (Aug. 10), teams of 50 players fought for con-trol of the fi eld and forest battlefi eld in Operation Pontofar.

Th e woodsball event, organized by Surrey’s PBL West Paintball, was a scenario-based competi-tion, with specifi c objec-tives for players with red (insurgent) and blue (reg-ular) armbands, as well as re-spawn opportunities for those hit.

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BOAZ JOSEPH PHOTO Above: Joshua Yarema (top) and Zachery Bliss take cover during Operation Pontofar, PBL West Inc.’s third paintball scenario game of 2014. The ‘woodsball’-style event, involving 50-versus-50 team matches, was held Aug. 10 at Surrey’s Ambush Paintball. Top left: The game gear comes off for a lunch break.

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ICBC to send $38M in overcharge refunds

by Jeff NagelICBC is preparing to mail out

309,000 refund cheques rang-ing from $1 to $350 to optional auto insurance customers it over-charged since 2008.

Wrong rates were used because of incorrect descriptions assigned years ago to many vehicles that are only now being fixed.

The average customer who over-paid all six years will get a refund of around $108, ICBC spokesman Adam Grossman said. The cheques will begin to go out around Aug. 20.

The average overpayment was $18 per year.

The refunds plus interest being paid total nearly $38 million.

Nearly 370,000 other motorists were undercharged because of the glitches.

ICBC won’t go after them for the $53 million in lost revenue.

The faulty vehicle descriptions affected only optional insurance, not basic rates.

The refunds were calculated as part of two independent external reviews that checked millions of insurance transactions over the past six years.

Auditors who examined ICBC’s handling of the issue concluded ICBC knew the problem was sys-

temic as early as 2009 but man-agement hid it from ICBC’s board of directors until mid-2013.

Various fixes were contemplat-ed but discarded, according to the auditors’ report.

ICBC managers feared a solu-tion might harm its relationship with brokers and that disclosure of inaccurate pricing would hurt ICBC’s business position against optional insurance competitors.

The corporation ultimately opted to fix the errors and issue

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The long-run-ning overcharges were finally made public in April by Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Minister Todd Stone – only af-ter he was directly questioned by the

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Customers renewing their auto insurance since July have been required to update their vehicle’s descriptions, Grossman said.

The error isn’t expected to re-cur because ICBC’s modernized system will pull the correct de-scription from the vehicle iden-tification numbers, instead of be-ing entered manually by Autoplan agents.

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The telly, the boob tube, the idiot box. Call it what you will, it’s consumed way too

much of my time in recent months.I’m ashamed to admit that,

lately, entire evenings that would have been better spent walking in a park or with my nose buried in a book have somehow melted away in what feels like minutes.

Despite the recent stretch of beautiful weather, between the TV and my laptop, I confess I oft en fi nd it next to impossible to pull my gaze from the magnetism of a glowing screen.

It’s sheer laziness, and not at all conducive to good health — I rec-ognize this.

Th e worst part is, it’s not at all how my brother and I were raised.

Growing up in Port Hardy and Pouce Coupe (near Dawson Creek) we certainly didn’t spend hours sitting, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, in front of the TV.

We were too busy running around in the woods behind our house, building ‘log cabins’ that never actually made it past our knees, and racing down home-

made ziplines which, in hindsight, probably weren’t the safest. But then safety wasn’t our chief con-cern, with the wind whipping our shaggy 1970s hair-dos in our faces.

In Port Hardy, especially, there were regular neighbour-hood games of kick-the-can, road hockey matches and long aft ernoons spent combing the beach for whatever new treasure the tide had washed ashore.

And if there was somewhere we want-ed to go, we usually got there under our own steam, on bi-cycles with tires that barely had time to cool off between rides.

Up north in the winter, a 30-second thrill ride down the local toboggan run came at the price of a long, strenuous hike back up, hindered by a puff y ski jacket, freezing wet jeans and ungainly moon boots.

By day’s end, we were usually too wiped to watch much TV.

Today, the great outdoors has far more to compete with than it did when we were kids.

Television on northern Vancou-ver Island in the ‘70s, off ered the CBC and, aft er a certain point, a test pattern.

So, on a given night, if you weren’t watching the Wonderful World of Disney, Hockey Night in Canada (when dad commandeered the house’s lone set) or the Donny & Marie show, you were probably looking at a screen of coloured bars accom-panied by an annoy-ing high-pitched tone.

In the ‘80s our world expanded ex-ponentially, with the

introduction of cable and the awe-someness that was MTV.

And we’d eagerly anticipate the start of the new fall season aft er an agonizing summer spent waiting for last spring’s cliffh anger to be re-solved. Were we ever going to fi nd out who shot J.R.?

By contrast, today’s shows run year-round, with many scheduled specifi cally to air fresh episodes during those previously dry sum-mer months. And, of course, pro-gramming now goes round the clock on 200 channels.

It’s not all good, but it’s readily available.

Add to that online gaming, smartphones, and tablets, and to-day’s kids stand a slim chance of enjoying an active childhood.

Forty years ago, ParticipAC-TION was already telling us — on television, where else? — that the average 30-year-old Canadian was in worse shape than a 60-year-old Swede. It’s scary to think how we’d stand up to that test today.

In the face of such an uphill battle — the kind that would no doubt leave me gasping for breath on the sidelines — what is there to do but try to set a better example?

Perhaps it’s time to put down the remote and walk away.

Five kilometres or so should do the trick.– Brenda Anderson is a reporter at the

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Fraser Downs Race-track and Casino are taking the show on the road – all the way to Desert Park in sunny Osoyoos.

This Saturday, in what may be a Cana-dian first, S t a n d a r d -bred horses will share a track with their thor-o u g h b r e d cousins, in-t r o d u c i n g fans to the sport of har-ness racing in two exhibition races on Aug. 16.

Some of Clover-dale’s best-known stables are making the trek to the Okanagan, where the Desert Park Exhibition Society has worked to return thoroughbred racing to Osoyoos in the past two summers, after a 15-year absence, at-tracting thousands of spectators for two race days a season.

The harness rac-es will take place in between the five thoroughbred races scheduled for the day, said Jackson Wit-tup, executive direc-

tor of Harness Racing B.C., an association representing drivers, owners, breeders and other members of the harness racing indus-try. Thoroughbred races start at 1:30 p.m. and the two exhibition (no betting) races get

underway at 5 p.m.

There will be two, six-horse fields, f e a t u r i n g the Travis Tracy, Justin Curry, Dave Hudon, Al-lan Molloy, and Rick L a n c a s t e r

stables, and a host others.

“We’re just trying to get our foot in the door and see if there’s other options in the summer time,” he said. “Let’s go showcase ourselves.”

The 2014 live rac-ing season at Fraser Downs is currently on summer break, and resumes on Sept. 4-5, but the industry has pledged to look at ways to keep harness racing viable in the long-term.

In February, a deal was inked guaran-teeing live racing at Fraser Downs for the

next five years, but the seasons will shrink to six months in 2016, something horsemen have been lobbying against, in part be-cause operating costs are year-round. The deal also extends the funding arrangement.

At the time, Wittup said the deal means there’s time to pur-sue other racing op-tions during the sum-mer. A number of Alberta owners and trainers use the Des-ert Park facility as a

training facility, the Osoyoos Times re-cently reported.

The return of horse racing in Osoyoos proved popular last year, drawing up-wards of 4,000 spec-tators over two race days.

Wittup said Fra-ser Downs and own-er Great Canadian Gaming Corp. have been very supportive of the Osoyoos road trip, offering equip-ment and staff to make it happen.

Harness racer from Fraser Downs to hold two exhibition races in Osoyoos

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- Jackson Wittup

FILE PHOTOHarness drivers from Fraser Downs will compete in pair of exhibition races this month in Osoyoos.

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Cloverdale: ‘Exciting things’ promisedAn old survey

conducted by the Cloverdale Com-munity Association quizzing residents on recreational ameni-ties found the most sought-after facility would be an indoor pool, followed by a new ice arena. Both features are absent from the Cloverdale Rec Centre, which opened in 2011.

“The community’s asking for things,”

Young says. “The city’s delivering something else.”

Meanwhile, the ex-isting buildings on the site – home to the Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair and host to numerous events and groups through-out the year, from Sun-day’s flea market to the new Surrey Night Market this summer – have not seen any major improvements in 30 years other than maintenance, he says.

“What I’m seeing

is patchwork on an extremely important parcel in our com-munity,” he said. “We have 140 acres of

prime, frontage prop-erty that the city owns and we have not been asked for input on the project.”

Representatives of the Cloverdale Busi-ness Improvement As-sociation are similarly impatient with the lack of progress on the trade and convention centre idea.

Speaking at the Clo-verdale BIA annual general meeting last month, Coun. Bruce Hayne hinted that an announcement could

be imminent.“Exciting things will

be happening in Clo-verdale in the next few years,” he told mem-bers of the BIA, which represents 280 local businesses.

Hayne called the fairgrounds “a unique jewel – the key jewels to the city,” and added, “there are 100 acres right in the centre we could do so much with.”

Cloverdale BIA Ex-ecutive Director Paul Orazietti said “a lot of

our frustration comes from not being di-rectly involved in the process.”

He believes a suc-cessful future for Clo-verdale businesses depends on other fa-cilities drawing more people to the historic town centre, uniquely positioned in a re-gion that’s seen large venues and exhibition spaces developed or enhanced in the past decade, such as the Langley Events Cen-tre, Abbotsford Centre and the Prospera Cen-tre in Chilliwack.

“The bulk of people live between Surrey and Vancouver; they

don’t live in the Val-ley,” Orazietti said.

“In theory, weshouldn’t have to drive to Vancouver or Ab-botsford to have trade shows.”

Cloverdale BIA president Rob Pater-son would like to see something happen todevelop the potential of the remaining fair-grounds property.

“But it’s got to be smart development.It’s got to respond to what the community needs,” he said.

“I’m totally into lis-tening to what the city has to say, but we need to have some sort of dialogue.”

JENNIFER LANG PHOTOThe city’s preferred option in 2007.

“The bulk of people live between Surrey and Vancouver; they

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By Evan SealFor Hannah Premia, dance has always been

a part of her life, a place where she felt at home and could easily express herself.

Whether it was tambourine and fl ag danc-ing at her church, or hip hop and ballet classes, Hannah loved the freedom and movement that dance brought to her life.

And now the 22-year-old Simon Fraer Univer-sity student is hoping to help special needs chil-dren experience that same feeling while building motor skills and strength in the process.

“My 11-year-old sister Angelina is special needs and we’ve been working with her one-on-one for a few years,” Hannah said. “We used to sing songs with her and we’ve seen such a great improvement with her and now she’s starting to walk and move.”

Hannah and her mother Helen Premia, who has been a teacher for 30 years and currently runs a daycare in Surrey, are planning to off er a dance and music program specifi cally geared for special needs kids from Kindergarden to Grade 12.

“Th is is something that has been in my mom’s and my heart – to see special needs kids grow and develop skills that they have, because a lot of kids have the skills and ability, but for special needs kids it just takes a little longer to develop.”

Th e idea is to run three diff erent groups for low-functioning, medium-functioning and high-functioning children. Low-functioning students would work mostly with music and

smaller movements, while the kids who can move more freely on their own could progress to more dancing and routines.

“Oft en special needs children are included in an activity but not actively involved,” said Hel-en. “Th ey are passive listeners, so that’s when Istarted thinking about how I could get them to actively participate.”

For her daughter Angelina, progress has beenslow, starting with a game of musical chairs where Angelina only had to give a high-fi ve to the other kids as they ran by her chair. As time went on, Angelina was able to stand in front of her chair and now can take a few steps – with awide, proud smile on her face.

Helen and Hannah believe receiving love and encouragement is key for children’s develop-ment, and with so many events and competi-tions for able-bodied kids, the pair decided to provide a venue for kids with special needs.

“With my sister, when we fi rst started, she would have probably been in the low-function-ing group, but we’ve been getting her into stand-up and sit-down songs and movements and it has really helped build her leg muscles and coremuscles,” Hannah said.

Th e goal is to progress towards performing at festivals and helping kids believe in themselves.

“We just want them to have fun with danceand to grow in their specifi c needs and build on their strengths,” Hannah said. “We just wantto get the kids out there, really just to showcasethem and show what special needs kids can do.”

An information open house is planned for Aug. 17 at 12 p.m. at Triunity Martial Arts Stu-dio, #4A-15685 Fraser Hwy. Depending on in-terest, classes will begin in September.

For more information on the program con-tact Hannah Premia at 777-877-4222 or [email protected]

Developing special talents through dance8 The Cloverdale Reporter Thursday, August 14, 2014

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EVAN SEAL PHOTOHannah Premia (left) with her sister Angelina and her mother Helen.

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He’s just a ‘wholesome country boy’By Kristine SalzmannTh ere’s something new at

this year’s Cloverdale Blueberry Festival and it doesn’t involve the plump, local berry.

Festival organizers have brought in country music artists for its fi rst ever Berry Country Music Showcase in partnership with the B.C. Country Music Association (BCCMA).

Five B.C.-born country music artists will perform at the Brick Yard Station stage (at the north-west corner of Highway 10 and Highway 15) on Aug. 16.

“Th ey’re all great up and coming artists,” says Linda Corscadden, BCCMA vice president. “Th ey’re fun to work with too and they interact with their fans really well.”

One of the artists has called Cloverdale home. Trevor Murray lived in the community until the age of four before moving to South Surrey. Murray, who now resides in White Rock, will team up with guitarist Brad Mey for an acoustic set.

“[Murray] is an awesome guy – a wholesome, country boy,” Corscadden says. “He has a really unique sound to him... He tells a story, it’s not just singing a song.”

Murray, 35, says he listened to a lot of country music growing up, something that seemed to fi t in with a family whose father had “a bit of a natural twang” to his voice.

In high school he started writing songs.

“I’d be out cutting the lawn and run inside to write down song lyr-ics,” he recalls.

But it wasn’t until Murray was 21 that he picked up a guitar, and 28 when he fi rst played on stage with Th e Murray Band in 2008.

“And I love it. I love perform-ing, and I love recording,” he says, describing his music as “big, tradi-tional, storytelling country music.”

Th e group had its beginnings playing at Royal Canadian Legions

in Cloverdale and White Rock, local fairs, and the Cloverdale Rodeo.

Th ey released an album in 2008, and in 2010 came out with a single (Can’t Leave You Behind) that won them a nomination for Traditional Country Artist of the Year at the 2010 B.C. Country Music Awards.

Murray and his wife then travelled to Nashville where he re-corded 12 original songs for a solo album, Leave it Up to Me, which was released in 2012. He also recorded a Christmas song, Great-est Present of All, which won the JRFM New Country Challenge.

Th e song reminisces about good times with loved ones and is one that holds a special meaning for Murray’s family since his dad passed away a few years ago.

Recently, aft er taking a six-month break from music, Murray decided to put an ad on craigslist in search of a guitarist. He met Mey and the two started playing and writing songs together.

With this acoustic set at the

Cloverdale Blueberry Festival, he and Mey are “throwing our hats back in the ring.”

“I’m just continuing to write new music and get back out there and play as much as I can.”

Murray performs at the Brick Yard Station stage Aug. 16 at 11 a.m.

B.C. showcaseOther artists featured at the BC-

CMA Berry Country Music Show-case include:

• Nicole Sumerlyn (10 a.m.): Nicole Sumerlyn is a country singer/songwriter from Abbots-ford whose eclectic musical inter-ests have created a unique blend of angelic sweetness with a rootsy, rock edge. Sumerlyn was a fi nalist in the Valley Voices Vocal compe-tition in Abbotsford, and in 2013 also had the honour of sharing the stage with Jesse Mast opening for Brett Kissel.

• Ben Klick (12 p.m.): Ben Klick writes and performs original music

as well as covers of popular coun-try music artists. Fusing his skilland passion for guitar and love forentertaining a crowd, his interac-tive country style will have the audience on their feet. Music is atthe heart of everything Klick does – he’s truly a guitar pickin’ country gentleman.

• Lisa Nicole (1 p.m.): Lisa Ni-cole might look like your perfectcountry sweetheart, but this award-winning rising star has a feistinessfl owing through her veins. Nicolehas three singles on more than 50radio stations across Canada and has played the main stage on fes-tivals such as Sunfest, the Rockin’River Music Fest, the Calgary Stampede and Sturgis North. Re-cently, she won two Kootenay Mu-sic Awards for Album of the Yearand Best Country Act.

• DaniElle (2 p.m.): Born andraised in Pitt Meadows on her family’s dairy farm made singing country music an obvious choice for DaniElle. At the age of 12 she picked up her dad’s old guitar and taught herself how to play, whichwas followed by writing her ownsongs. She has preformed at ven-ues such as Th e Electric Owl inDowntown Vancouver, fairs androdeos throughout the Lower Mainland, and the Mod Club inToronto.– Bios provided by the BCCMA have been

edited and condensed

Singer-songwriter Trevor Murray is one of fi ve born-in-B.C. musicians taking the stage at country music showcase

CONTRIBIUTEDSouth Surrey’s Trevor Murray called Cloverdale home ‘til the age of 4.

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Chevys, blueberries, and all that jazzBy Ursula Maxwell-LewisMention Dukes of Hazzard, Smokey and

the Bandit, Magnum P.I., Th e Green Hornet, Th e Love Bug – and what have you got?

Classic car nostalgia.Whether you’re a car buff , or not, sexy

horsepower and chrome is guaranteed to rev up smiles, accelerates memories and put a spe-cial kind of gas in your tank. Just ask AudreyStebanuk.

For 11 years, Stebanuk’s SRO Promotions has been the driving force behind the Blue-berry Show n’ Shine, an integral part of the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival scheduled to take place throughout the historic town cen-tre on Saturday, Aug. 16.

Classic cars are Audrey and Gord Ste-banuk’s passion, but so is connecting with people who share a love of white wall tires, “torque-y engines,” fi ns, diff erentials and carburetors.

Greeting me under the familiar red TEXACO garage sign at their Langley home, Gord and Audrey give me the run-down on the latest addition to their fl eet – a rare bronze-copper 1963 Pontiac Tempest Le-Mans convertible with a vinyl saddle inte-rior, and a newly-minted Collector plate.

“We were at a show and swap meet in

Langley,” Gord tells me. “I see this car come in on a trailer. Right away I run over and of-fer $500 less than the asking price.” Having done business with the owner before, his of-fer is snapped up. Gord chuckles at the recol-lection: “And, six guys behind me are calling me names right away!”

He runs over the car specs: “It has a trans axle on the back like a Corvette, is driven by a three-quarter-inch shaft , half a three eighty

nine which is a four-cylinder, has a four-bar-rel carburetor…”

By the time he gets to the four-gear engine I confess my ignorance about all things auto-motive by commenting: “Th is is one excep-tionally cool-looking car. Th at’s all I know.”

Audrey moves me on to admire red twin muscle cars, a Challenger R/T and a Charger Super Bee.

Nearby a new restoration awaits – a ’55 Pon-

tiac Star Chief. Carefully labelled parts are be-ing meticulously assembled on shelves withsurgical precision. She tells me Gord, now retired from their welding business, will take over a year to fully restore the car.

Linda Koropchuk arrives in her harvest goldand white 1955 Chevy Bel Air. She and herhusband (also named Gord), also have more of the same at home in a choice of red and white,

URSULA MAXWELL-LEWIS PHOTOAudrey Stebanuk cruises in classic style. For 11 years, she has organized the Blueberry Show ’n Shine. Classic cars are her passion – something she shares with husband Gord.

URSULA MAXWELL-LEWIS PHOTOA ’50s diner is fi lled with authentic details.

The driving force behind the Blueberry Show n’ Shine reveals the gals enjoy the Classics just as much as the guys

“This is one exceptionally cool-looking car. That’s all I know.”

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gypsy red, and coal black. Clearly these gals enjoy

the classic cars as much as the guys – and are equally knowledgeable about the fi ner details.

My enthusiastic blonde guide, Audrey, has more sur-prises in store.

Leading me past a garden oasis perfect for barbecues, and a country store liber-ally sprinkled with assorted collectibles, she ushers me through the spacious ranch-er into a fully furnished ’50s diner. Red and white booths, a fully functional juke box, and heart-shaped chairs and tables restored by Gord beg for patrons in poodle skirts and saddle shoes. Kitchen cupboards are well stocked with Coca Cola crockery.

Shooting pictures inside and out, Audrey and Linda remember they both have clothes that match the era. Why am I not surprised?

Aft er all the recent aw-ful TV news, the whole step back in time is fun, refresh-ing and lends a touch of whimsy to the hot August aft ernoon.

We inspect a comprehen-sive doll collection before moving in to Audrey’s offi ce. A stack of Blueberry Show and Shine entry forms on the desk bring me back to why I’m here. On a more serious note, we talk about Audrey and Gord’s work with the Get Back to Country Car Show at the Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair, Langley Cruise In, Bras for a Cause, Relay for Life, various car clubs and the BC Cancer Society.

Having built a welding business, raised seven chil-

dren and restored countless classic cars, the Stebenuksseem to just be revving upwhen others of their age aregearing down.

During the CloverdaleBlueberry Festival you’ll fi ndthem around the Destina-tion Cloverdale offi ce on 176Street, or not far from theirshiny, 19-foot 1959 PontiacBonneville convertible.

– Entries for the Blueberry Show ‘n Shine are online at www.sropro-motions.com, www.CloverdaleBIA.com or by calling 604-530-2390.

Audrey Stebanuk and Linda Koropchuk prove the gals are just as knowledgable about the fi ner details.

Past the garden is a country store, dinerFrom previous page

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No matter how you slice it, they’re yummyBy Kristine SalzmannTasked with baking 350 blueberry pies, a

community can really come together.Each year members of the Cloverdale

United Church make and sell the pies as a fundraiser at the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival.

Volunteers pick, sort, and wash hundreds of pounds of fresh, local blueberries. The day before the event, members gather at the church kitchen to measure ingre-dients, make pastry, fill pies and bake them so they are all fresh on festival day.

“The people in the church are absolutely wonderful,” says May Taylor, church member and one of the organiz-ers of the event. “The other day I phoned and said, can anybody come in the morning and clean 200 pounds of blueberries? And I had 10 people down there in the morning.”

Taylor’s recent call-out for volunteers came when Surrey Farms (on 152 St. at Colebrook Road) donated 200 pounds of berries, a contribu-tion owner Mandy Rai made last year as well.

“I would really like to acknowledge their generosity... They’re very kind to us,” Taylor said of Surrey Farms.

The donation helped the church reach its target of more than 350 pounds of blueber-ries, which volunteers use along with 70

pounds of lard, seven large bags of flour, three large bags of sugar and 13 boxes of cornstarch.

Each year the group has increased the number of pies for sale, but Taylor said they’ve now reached the maximum capacity for baking in their kitchen on a single day.

On festival day even more volunteers come out to help with the sale of the 350 pies,

which starts at 10 a.m. at the Surrey Mu-seum Plaza (by the clock). Taylor

said last year they were sold out by about 2:30 p.m. It might

have something to do with the crust. That year, Taylor

told The Cloverdale Reporter that their pie crust recipe has been around for decades – at least 40 years – and was originally from a member of their con-gregation.

Blueberry muffins, coffee and juice will also

be available. Taylor also welcomes festival-goers

to drop by and chat with the volunteers to learn more about

the church, which often leads to new members.

And those who enjoy their blueberry of-ferings will be pleased to know that church members also make apple pies in the fall, which are sold frozen and raw so buyers can bake them at home. Orders can be placed through the church, or they can be pur-chased at Cloverdale’s Harvest Day Oct. 4.

PHOTO CREDITMay Taylor, part of an army of volunteers, says in addition to pies, the church will be selling blue-berry muffi ns, coffee and juice. Look for them under the clock in Surrey Museum Plaza Aug. 16.

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Seeing blueThe blueberry; a succulent treat with so much potential. Why

would we not want to celebrate it? Every year Cloverdale hosts the Blueberry Festival. It is a wonderful event with all kinds of

entertainment and activities. You can check out vendors off ering awide variety of wares, including delicious baked goods featuring thetreasured blueberry. Th ere is also a Show ’n Shine featuring some very cool cars. Th ere will be the classics of course, but if last year was any indication there will probably be some interesting, unique vehicles on display as well.

If you want to make it a family aff air, check out Cinemazoo and theiranimal education or watch the skateboarding demos. You may see metrying my hand at the mini-golf this year. Th ere is so much available tooccupy children and adults alike.

I attended the Blueberry Festival last year for the fi rst time. I was surprised by how much there was to see and do. I watched BMX bikers do all sorts of tricks. Th ey were very cool. I also saw an amazing group of women drumming. Th at was the highlight for me. Th ere was also a great artists walk where I had the opportunity to meet the art-ists and ask them about their work. I left in-spired to do some more of my own.

Make sure you grab some fresh local blue-berries on your way home. You can fi nd all sorts of ways to incorporate them into your recipes. I love them in spinach salad, and blueberry muffi ns have always been a favourite.

Th is festival is one of the reasons I love to call Cloverdale home. It is a great representation of the kind of community this is. Th is town, on the outskirts of the large city of Surrey, is quaint and hospitable.It still holds a welcoming, small-town feeling, yet hosts some of the best events in western Canada. I hope you take the time to check outthe Blueberry Festival with your friends and family. Make it an annualevent. You won’t be disappointed.

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Explore the infl atable bouncy castle, stage a water gun fi ght at the OK Corral and climb onto the Carib-bean obstacle course featuring slides, climbing walls and sharks. Th ere will also be free face painting, BMX demonstrations, and don’t forget the star attraction – the blueberry pie eating contest.

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Brick Yard Station will be hosting the Berry Coun-try Music Showcase, presented by Th e B.C. Country Music Association presents. Brick Yard Station mer-chants are also holding a sidewalk sale. Don’t miss the Outlaw RC Blueberry 500 race, Kids Area, berry ven-dors and more.

Th e Surrey Museum presents the Fibre Craft s Festi-val. Visitors can explore displays and demonstrations. Outside in the museum plaza, the Surrey Pioneer Fire-fi ghters Association holds an open house, next to the Blueberry Arts Festival.

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An art walk to enjoyAt the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival, the Arts Council of Surrey brings you an Art Walk to enjoy, craft ed

creations to fall in love with, and while you are doing that, performers to entertain you. Under the tent on the Cenotaph Plaza at the Surrey Museum is the Art Walk. Visual artists compete for a

“Best in the Show” award. Works will be in traditional styles as well as abstract, photography, digital images and 3-D. Artists will have art cards, posters, prints and other art works for sale.

Ringing the Plaza are artisans whose craft s are all handmade and range from pottery to wood work, from silver ware jewelry to painted rocks, and don’t forget the Barbie doll clothes and Funky Cats. Th e artisans also have a henna art section and a fun stuff for kids’ kiosk.

Right in the centre of the Plaza is the stage. Entertainment starts just aft er 10 a.m. and continues until 4 p.m. with dancing, local singers, music and the Re-enactors. Finally, to fi nish the day on stage, Art Walk artists who participated in the competition receive very special awards.

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FILE PHOTOA girl watches a dance performance on the entertainment stage at Blueberry Arts Festival in Surrey Museum Plaza.

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the sticky, sweet fi lling and demolish a 12-inch pie donated by the local Marketplace IGA.

Win or lose, your cheeks and chin will be a pur-plish-blue mess and you may even get a few berries up your nose.

It’s the most photographed event of the Clover-dale Blueberry Festival – everyone in the crowd has

their camera phones out, says Paul Orazietti, executive director of the Cloverdale Business Im-provement Association.

“It’s colour – not everyone’s go-ing to make it through, but at the end of the day everyone is try-ing.”

Orazietti adds that in recent years the contest has attracted a professional eater, and last year one of the Surrey Re-enactors (an actor who recreates the life of

a early Surrey settler) participated in costume.Th e pie eating contest has been part of the festival

since its inception 11 years ago, he says. Festival goers who come to Clover Square Village (17700 56 Ave., where the Marketplace IGA is located) to witness the messy event can also catch BMX bike demonstra-tions.

Th is year’s pie eating contest will take place at 10 and 11 a.m., with both times including a junior and adult division. Registration starts an hour in advance and is fi rst come, fi rst serve. Th e bike demos take place at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.

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Teacher Mary Jane Shannon runs a tight ship.

When class begins, students must stand, call out: “Good aft ernoon, Miss Shan-non,” then sing the hymn God Save the King.

Today, aft er a strict lesson in spelling (it’s “c-a-r-i-b-o-o”) and some local history, someone mentions an iPad.

Th e teacher, smart as a whip, asks in her distinctive Irish accent: “Is that for washing dishes, dear?”

Sounds reasonable. It is, after all, June 8, 1906 – it says so

on a chalkboard in the classroom inside the Cloverdale Heritage Railway Station, where several families are meeting with Surrey’s Re-Enactors following a train ride and a greeting with the local Reeve, T.J. Sullivan.

The Re-Enactors are back from the past for a third year, a heritage troupe that brings Surrey’s history to life through five pioneers during the period of 1872 to 1945.

The characters, who will have made 20 visits to local events by the end of Septem-ber, include the real-life figures of:

• Reeve T.J. Sullivan, who joined his brother to set up a sawmill in Surrey in 1903, and went into local politics;

• Carpenter Eric Anderson, who made his way to Canada from Sweden on a whal-ing ship, fi nally settling in Surrey and retir-ing comfortably aft er selling land to the BC Electric Railway;

• Zennosuke Inouye, a prominent New-ton-area berry grower, chauff eur, and vet-eran of the First World War. He was the only

Japanese veteran to have his land returned to him – following 80 letters of protest – af-ter his internment during the Second World War;

• Dr. Fredrick Sinclair, the only doctor in the municipality for more than 40 years, and a driving force in the creation of Sur-rey’s Victorian Order of Nurses, the Surrey Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and Surrey Memorial Hospital.

• Mary Jane Shannon, who was a student and later a teacher at Clover Valley School in Surrey’s fi rst school district. She later pur-sued a career in nursing.

Miss Shannon – the spitting image of local actress Sara Holt – tells the her students that their tiny classroom has much nicer fi ttings and furnishings than when she was their age.

“Th is isn’t the same log cabin that had been my original school in 1882.”

She tells them she taught her fi rst 28 stu-dents, ages six to 16, on April 14, 1903.

(Sixteen minus six soon becomes a math question, and a young boy she calls “Master Evan” must stand and remove his hat before answering).

Her salary: $50 a month, the same as her own teacher got 21 years earlier.

“All the stories are true,” says coordinator Yvette Dudley-Neuman.

“Th ey’ve been historically documented and researched through the Surrey Archives.

So every character we present has a connec-tion to Surrey.”

Th e local physician, Dr. Sinclair, also at the train station, opens his bag to show a variety of instruments, serums and odd items suchas a bottle of purple-dyed milk that was used to help isolate a local farm that had sold con-taminated products.

Th e physician – a Doug Cameron look-alike – says his biggest challenges are edu-cating the public about hygiene, children’s health, and diseases such as typhoid, salmo-nella and smallpox.

Working alone as the area’s only physician, he makes constant house calls.

Dudley-Neuman says the Re-Enactors will act accordingly depending on what time period they represent, and are never out of character.

Indeed, the ever-sharp Miss Shannon hasbeen heard to say she’s of good character.

Her lesson ends with “Please repeat aft er me: God Save the King! Class dismissed.”

– Black Press

Upcoming visits:• Aug. 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Clover-

dale Blueberry Festival at Surrey Museum • Sept. 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Fleet-

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• Sept. 20 from 1-4 p.m. – Discovery Sat-urday at Surrey Museum

• Sept. 20 from 12-3 p.m. – Olde HarvestFair at Historic Stewart Farm

• Sept. 26 and 27 from 12-4 p.m. -CultureDays at Surrey Arts Centre

A few of our city’s most colourful characters will be making an appearance at the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival

BOAZ JOSEPH PHOTOSDr. Fredrick Sinclair (Doug Cameron) shows purple-dyed milk that was used to pinpoint con-taminated dairy products on a Surrey farm.

Mary Jane Shannon (Sara Holt) talks to ‘students’ in a classroom at Sullivan Station in June.

Use the blues to your culinary advantageWith the blueberry

season in full swing, the B.C. Blueberry Council off ers up the following fi xings to put the sweet fruit to good use. Give them a try.

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• 2 tsp (10 ml) fresh thyme, chopped or 1 tsp dry

• 1 tsp (15 ml) garlic, fi nely minced or dry

• 1 tsp (5 ml) paprika, mild or hot

• 1 tsp (5 ml) salt• 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml) black

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• 2 tsp (10 ml) vegeta-ble oil

• 3 tbsp (45 ml) barbe-cue sauce

• 4 whole grain burger buns

Directions:1. Pre-heat a heavy bot-

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2. In a bowl, mix all the

burger ingredients and form four 3/4-inch thick patties. If mixture appears to wet, add bread crumbs or fl ax. Keep refrigerated until ready to cook.

3. Grease the grill with an oiled paper towel, or heat the oil in the pan.

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for approximately fi veto seven minutes until browned. Carefully fl ipover, reduce the heat to medium-low and fi nish cooking for another fi veto seven minutes until in-ternal temperature reach-es 165°F/75°C.

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Celebrate heritage craft s like spinning, knitting and weaving at the Surrey Museum’s Discovery Saturday: Fibre Craft s Festival on Saturday, August 16 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (admission by dona-tion). We’ll spin the story of cloth at this family-friendly and inter-active exploration of all things fi bre.

Visitors can try the Museum’s looms and spinning wheels withtips from staff and volunteers.

Children make take-home textile craft s like God’s Eyes and yarn bracelets.

Explore displays by Fraser Valley fi bre enthusiasts, which in-clude rug-hooking, needle-felting, inkle loom weaving and other types of hand work.

Watch a beautiful and intricate lacemaking demonstration, and visit with entertaining local fashion historian, Ivan Sayers, for a rareopportunity to view his antique lace collection.

Visitors are invited in to the Hooser Textile Library extensive collection of vintage patterns and books.

Th e Museum’s Textile Studio features a rare Jacquard loom, and will host spinning and weaving demonstrations.

Visitors can purchase snacks from Smile Indian restaurant.Sign up for a “Drop Spindle Spinning” workshop held on the

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JENNIFER LANG PHOTOSisters Taya and Trista Suthill say they’re really looking forward to this year’s Cloverdale Blueberry Fes-tival. The George Greenaway Elementary students are both entering the blueberry pie eating contest at Clover Square Village Aug. 16. Taya, holding up her entry, is also hoping to win the grand prize in the Blueberry Colouring Contest – a big jar of candy from Into Chocolate.

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Surrey Museum Plaza10th Annual Blueberry Art Festival 10am – 4pmMUSEUM STAGE: 10am - 4pm10:15 - 10:35am Sudnya Dance Academy10:40 - 10:50am The Re-Enactors - Mary Jane Shannon11:00 - 11:30am Classic Steps Stage Productions11:40 - 11:50am The Re-enactors - Doctor Frederick Sinclair12:00 - 12:30pm Joe Given12:40 - 12:50pm The Re-enactors - Zennosuke Inouye1:00 - 1:30pm Cassandra Bangel1:40 - 1:50pm The Re-enactors - Reeve T.J. Sullivan2:00 - 2:30pm The Orchard2:40 - 2:50pm The Re-enactors - Eric Anderson3:00 - 3:30pm Ben Dunnill

At the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival, Arts Council of Surrey brings you an Art Walk to enjoy. Crafted creations to fall in love with, and while you are doing that, Performers to entertain you. Under the tent on the Cenotaph Plaza at the Surrey Museum is the Art Walk. Visual artists compete for a “Best in the Show” award. Works will be in traditional styles as well as abstract, photography, digital images and 3-D. Artists will have art cards, posters, prints and other art works for sale. Ringing the Plaza are artisans whose crafts are all handmade and range from pottery to wood work, from silver ware jewel-lery to painted rocks, and don’t forget the Barbie doll clothes and Funky Cats. The artisans also have a henna art section and a fun stuff for kids’ kiosk. Right in the centre of the Plaza is the stage. Entertainment starts just after 10am and continues until 4pm with dancing, local sing-ers, music and the Re-enactors. Finally, to fi nish the day on stage, Art Walk artists who participated in the competition receive very special awards. Cloverdale Guided Walking Tour: Meet at the Surrey Historical So-ciety booth in the Museum plaza to register. Guided tour by Roger Bose starts at 1:30pm.

Fibre Crafts Festival: Explore displays and demonstrations of fi bre arts like spinning, knitting and weaving, then try them out yourself on the museum’s textile equipment. Children make take-home textile crafts and families enjoy refreshments as they relax inside the museum foyer. August 16th 11:00 am – 4:00pm In addition we will be hosting the Surrey Pioneer Firefi ghters association for a Fire Truck Open House from 1:00 – 4:00pm August 16th.

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Local talent a boost to BlazeThe Langley Blaze were

crowned provincial champi-ons after a dramatic victory over the North Shore Twins at the B.C. Premier Baseball League championship final at Whalley Stadium.

The 4-3 win against the Twins, the team’s biggest ri-vals this year, is the perfect ending to a storybook season.

The Blaze boasts more than just the provincial base-ball banner – quite a few of the U18 players hail from Surrey.

Conor Chorpita, Jordan Atkinson, Ryan Braun and Kyle McComb are Surreyites. Mitch Robinson, Cooper Misic and Josh Geerts are all from Cloverdale.

Parents and fans turned out for the memorable final on Aug. 4.

Langley was able to avenge their only loss at the provin-cials, an opening day 5-0 de-feat at the hands of the Twins.

In that game, North Van pitcher Brad Smith struck out nine and allowed just a pair of singles.

Smith was on the mound again in the final, striking out 11 of 23 Langley batters in the first 5.1 innings.

North Shore led 1-0 when Langley came to bat in the bottom of the sixth. Liam Wyatt’s double scored Robin-son to tie the score, and Wy-att put the team ahead when he scored on a North Shore error.

“It was pretty grim going into the sixth, but we were trying to be upbeat, keep everybody posi-tive,” Blaze coach Jamie Bodaly told Black Press.

Th e Blaze were on one out from victory when the Twins struck to force extra in-nings.

“I give the kids a lot of cred-it, it took a lot of resolve to get through the next couple of batters to get out of the inning and re-group,” Bodaly said.

And after North Shore went ahead in the ninth, the

coach had a simple message for the team.

“I just said to the guys ‘let’s make this the hardest three outs of the year for these guys, the toughest outs they have ever had to get’, ” he said.

The Blaze then used “small-ball” for their rally.

Mason Verge got on base with a single and after he stole second, McComb’s perfect

sacrifice bunt not only got Verge to third base, but it also got McComb safely to first. Dayton Wilson’s sacrifice bunt then moved Mc-Comb to second and Robinson was intentionally walked to load

the bases, setting the stage for Dakota Curry’s heroics.

“Our clutch guy Dakota came up and came through for us,” Bodaly said

Cooper Misic earned the win, pitching one inning.

Keltie worked into the sixth inning, allowing just one un-

earned run while Ryan Braun pitched 2.2 innings, giving up a pair of earned runs.

Bodaly, who said it was pretty sweet to become the first team in league history to win the regular season and provincial title in the same season, was impressed with the Blaze getting contribu-tions all throughout the ros-ter.

“It was a complete team ef-fort; I think we had every guy get in and play in the last two games in some form.”

Over spring break, the Blaze attends training camp in Phoenix, AZ, playing pro-fessional farm teams from across the U.S. They also played in the Seattle Premier League this season. Past play-ers have been drafted to farm teams, and many players will be attending post secondary this fall on full scholarships.

“They just made their par-ents proud,” said Paige Har-dy, parent of Cooper. “The way they handled the stress, the excitement.”

– with fi les from Langley Times

PHOTO SUBMITTEDWith several players from Surrey and Cloverdale in their line-up, the Langley Blaze won the B.C. Premier Baseball League championship Aug. 4 at Whalley Stadium.

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who are playing,” said Coyote Creek spokesperson Janette Richardson.“Th e fi rst (FootGolf) course to do this was in Salmon Arm, we’re the second.”Currently there are just three courses in B.C. off ering FootGolf through the

Canadian FootGolf Association. And more are expected as fewer people takeup traditional golf.

“Golf numbers are declining,” said Richardson. “It’s down seven to 10 per cent all over. We’re just guessing, but we think the younger generation is getting caught up in video games and don’t get out as much as they used to.”

Coyote Creek launched FootGolf last week and has received plenty of re-sponse.

“Th ere’s positive feedback, and there’s the negative,” said Richardson. “Th ereare some people who think we’re taking away from golf, the traditional game.”

But there are many who enjoy the newer sport. It costs just $15 to play around. At the offi cial opening, roughly 100 people registered to play, and sev-eral businesses have inquired about hosting a company FootGolf tournament.

“It takes just two hours to do 18 holes,” said Richardson. “You just aim for thebig pots, marked by the yellow fl ags.”


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James Hur kicks a ball during the first FootGolf game at Surrey’s EaglequestCoyote Creek golf course on Aug. 2.


Consultation sheds light on farmland changesBy Tom FletcherSince commercial production of wine

or cider is allowed on farmland, why not a brewery, distillery or meadery?

Should energy co-generation be allowed on farms, using manure or other biode-gradable waste to produce methane gas and carbon dioxide?

These are some of the questions in-cluded in the B.C. government’s consul-tation on changes to Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) regulations, released ear-lier this month. Others deal with contro-versial proposals to allow specified non-farm uses, secondary residences and subdivisions without permission from

the Agricultural Land Commission. Developed after consultation with the

B.C. Agriculture Council, local govern-ments and the commission, the 11 ques-tions offer more detail on changes the gov-ernment is considering under legislation passed despite protests this spring.

The legislation divided the ALR into two zones, to permit more flexibility in the In-terior, Kootenay and North regions (Zone 2) where both agriculture revenue and de-velopment pressure are lower.

One question asks whether farmland in all of Zone 2 should be able to be subdi-vided down to a minimum of a quarter section (65 hectares) without application to the ALC, as is now allowed in the Peace

River and Northern Rockies Regional Dis-tricts in northeast B.C.

Another proposal is to allow subdivision without ALC approval where farmland is divided by a major waterway or highway, subject to a minimum size.

The province is also considering relax-ing lease rules, which currently permit leasing of an entire farm property without ALC approval. The consultation asks if a portion of property should be allowed for lease to permit “intergenerational trans-fer,” where farmers retire on a portion of their land so their children can continue to farm the rest.

Another proposal for partial lease with-out ALC approval would allow unfarmed

land to be brought into production. Thepartial leases would not require a formal subdivision.

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick has emphasized that changes to the ALR are designed to support farming, not erode the protected agricultural land base.

Public input is being accepted until Aug.22. The questions and a background paperare available online at www.engage.gov.bc.ca/landreserve, where submissions canbe made.

Comments can also be made by email to [email protected] or by Canada Post to ALR Regulation Consultation, P.O.Box 9120, Stn. Provincial Government,Victoria B.C. V8W 9B4.

By Evan SealClearing blackberries can be like wrestling a giant

prickly octopus, but a group of students are spending the summer ridding numerous city parks of the inva-sive plant, and at the same time, picking up litter and installing bird boxes – all in an attempt to maintain Surrey’s diverse natural habitats.

Members of SNAP (Surrey Natural Areas Partner-ship) and SHaRP (Salmon Habitat Restoration Proj-ect) recently combined forces for the day at Kiyo Park near 90 Avenue and 140 Street, clearing invasive plants, planting native species and educating the public about environmental stewardship.

“Any way we can work to help out the environment I think it’s really great,” said new SHaRP member Jagraj Chahal, 18, “It’s actually a really fun program. Th ere’s lots of diff erent things to do and you can really tell af-terwards when you look back at our work that we’ve made a diff erence.”

Both programs run throughout the summer, taking on a variety of environmental projects with the goal of cleaning and enhancing the natural environment.

“We employ post-secondary and high school stu-dents to do habitat restoration and environmental out-reach in the parks along with education at big events like Canada Day and Fusion Fest,” said SNAP program coordinator Steve McGlenn. “And we also do free drop-in programs for kids in the parks and promote the benefi ts all the parks provide.”

For UBC Environmental Studies and economics student Nimisha Sharma, 22, being a SHaRP Agricul-tural Stewardship team leader has given her an oppor-tunity to put her studies into practical use in the fi eld.

“Normally we work with land owners who have salmon bearing streams on their properties to help them enhance and protect the riparian areas on their properties,” she said, “I have the knowledge because of all the classes I’ve taken but we don’t get much hands-on experience (in school) so I am able to get that from this, which is great.”

For more information about the SNAP and SHaRP programs visit http://www.surrey.ca/culture-recre-ation/2013.aspx and http://www.surrey.ca/commu-nity/1997.aspx

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& #7 tickets ONLY will be added to contest #8.& #7 tickets ONLY will be added to contest #8. Contest #8 Started May 5, 2014. Contest #8 Started May 5, 2014.

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