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leave things in the state they’re in now,” Wilson said. “So we’re relieved and happy for the students and parents of Surrey who have seen their kids in portables for too long and this will help alleviate some of that.” However, Wilson noted it takes a long time to build a school. “It’s one thing to get the announcement, but if this announce-
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typically do today,” she said. In addition, the city is partnering with SFU, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Newton’s Forsight Accelerator Centre to build a centre for excellence in clean technology in Cloverdale. The city is making great headway through innovation in agriculture as well, Hepner said, trying out a new biopod – a self-contained ecosystem – to bolster and grow food in new places. Surrey is also aiming to become Hollywood North with the help of Skydance Studio, which will be locating at the old Pacific Press building on 88 Avenue near Scott Road. Skydance produced Mission Impossible and Star Trek movies as well as the Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie series. “Now they’re here in Surrey,” Hepner said, noting the company will provide 400 jobs and will be working on a Netflix feature about a city of the future called Altered Carbon. “What better place to tell a story about a city of the future than right here in Surrey,” she
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Top, a cowboy takes a tumble during competition at the 70th Cloverdale Rodeo and 128th Country Fair over the weekend; left, a motorized traffic cone on the parade route; centre, a barrel racer watches the clock near the finish line; above, Margaret Robinson sports beer-themed sunglasses and at left, Emma Leaman, 3, watches the parade with a mouthful of candy.
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CLOVERDALE MARKET DAYS Saturday, May 28 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 176 St. will be closed between 56A Ave. and 58 Ave. More than 60 vendors including: Food Trucks, Nurseries, Artists, Baking, Honey/Jams, Jewelry, Soaps, Distilleries, Kids Entertainment, 9 hole golf, Local Entertainment, ICBC, Surrey Crime Prevention. SENIORS OLD TIME DANCE A Seniors Old Time Dance is held Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. every two weeks with three different bands at the Old Age Pensioners Hall, 3015 273 Street, Aldergrove. Admission is $6. Hazelmere Heritage Fiddlers May 28. For more information call 604-575-7970. SURREY FIDDLER’S DANCE Thursday, June 2 from 7:30-10 p.m. hosted by the Surrey Old Time Fiddlers, at Clayton Hall, 18513 70 Avenue, Surrey. Admission $4. For more information call 604-576-1066. GEORGE GREENAWAY KIDS CARNIVAL George Greenaway Elementary School is hosting a kids carnival Friday, June 17 from 2:30-5 p.m. at the school, 17285 61A Avenue. Fun for all ages! Pony rides, face painting, cake walk, and a full concession with burgers, hot dogs, candy floss and more. Admission $10 for kids under 5, $12 for ages 5 and over. ANNOUNCEMENTS THE COAST TO COAST AGAINST CANCER FOUNDATION INSIDE RIDE Team captains, riders, volunteers and supporters are invited to take part in this year’s Inside Ride on Friday May 27 at the Cloverdale Rec Centre, at 7 p.m. Teams of six take turns riding stationary bikes accompanied by music and fun. Proceeds to the British Columbia Childhood Cancer Parent’s Association. Visit http://vancouver.theinsideride.com to ride, donate or volunteer. ATTENTION SENIORS Are you a senior who could use some help with grocery shopping? The Cloverdale Better at Home program is now offering accompanied grocery shopping services for seniors. Call us for more information and to sign up for this program. Call 604-536-9348 or email info-referral@comeshare.ca CLUBS/GROUPS FOOD PROBLEM? Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges? Is your weight affecting your life? Overeaters Anonymous offers help. No fees, no dues, no weigh-ins, no diets. We are a fellowship. We meet every Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Cloverdale United Church basement, 17575-58A Ave., Cloverdale. Everyone welcome. TOPS TOPS – Take Off Pounds Sensibly – meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday at the Cloverdale Library, 5642 176A Street, Surrey, in the upstairs meeting room. For more information, phone LInda at 604-462-9326. FORGET ME NOT FAMILY SOCIETY Education, consultation, peer counselling and support to those touched by adoption. The Cloverdale Support Group meets on the second Thursday of the month, at the Cloverdale Library, 5642 165A Street, Surrey, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Open to adoptees, birth/ natural parents, and adoptive parents.
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Harper-style ads carry on Get ready for more election campaign advertising broadcast at taxpayer expense keep taxes low and invest in B.C. By now you’ve probably seen families.” the provincial government ads, on TV or Facebook, with cute They used a male narrator, I suppose so it wouldn’t sound children lined up for a footrace at too much like a Christy Clark their school track meet. campaign speech broadcast at They are interspersed these days with ads urging people to taxpayer expense. sign up for trades training, an This grant program is a leftover from the Gordon Campbell years, extension of the “B.C. Jobs Plan” when the province banked $1,200 blitz that surrounded Premier per child from its natural gas Christy Clark before the 2013 election. windfall on behalf of kids born Tom Fletcher after 2007. The Clark government Not yet on TV, but waiting in expanded eligibility by a year and the wings, are exciting new exemptions from B.C.’s property transfer tax has made a series of announcements as the (for buyers of new homes only) and expand- money was doled out directly to parents. ed Medical Services Plan premium assistance, The ads are working, Wilkinson assured rewhich will be pitched mainly to seniors. Both porters. Monitoring has shown a “substantial measures were announced in the February increase” in parents signing up to receive the grant. budget. That’s public service advertising, explained Two cheers. With the help of sophisticated a stone-faced Andrew Wilkinson, minister re- marketing, the B.C. government is able to give sponsible for the wave of government ads that money away with brisk efficiency, as they did will crest next spring. The track meet spot is with the rebate to parents in the midst of the to remind parents of kids born after 2006 that last teachers’ strike. they can receive a $1,200 grant by setting up The Trudeau Liberal government has betheir children’s Registered Education Savings gun to rein in federal government advertising, which grew to new heights with the Stephen Plan at an eligible bank or credit union. The TV spot for the education grant has Harper government’s “Economic Action a confident narrator speaking as the plucky Plan,” the model for Clark’s blue-tinted “Jobs multicultural kids begin their sprint: “B.C.’s Plan” series. Federal Treasury Board President Scott plan to protect Canada’s strongest economy is working. Balanced Budget 2016 means we can Brison has started with a ban on taxpay-
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er-funded ads in the three months preceding a scheduled federal election. His “interim” measures also include banning the use of party colour schemes in taxpayer-funded ads, and promoting programs that don’t yet exist. Wilkinson declared that the B.C. Liberals had not stooped to that level, as the Harper Tories did with a proposed program to retrain unemployed people. “Our advertisements are fact-based,” he said. “They’re based on existing programs that have been budgeted, and they’re designed to engage British Columbians.” The Trudeau government has not yet delivered on its election promise to appoint an independent advertising commissioner, to work out of the federal Auditor General’s office. It’s unfortunate that yet another expansion of the bureaucracy is needed to keep politicians’ hands out of the till, but we seem to have reached that point in Canada. There have been no such reforms proposed for B.C., or as it is currently known, “Canada’s strongest economy.” At least we’ve been spared the bill for boasting about “The Best Place On Earth” in recent years. The B.C. NDP has advocated an Auditor General-run system for keeping partisan politics out of government advertising. For the second year, the NDP bill to compel that was tabled and ignored by the government. – Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter for Black Press
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this was totally different from being shunned in my own community.” He says people like Bill Mercer, Mark Eklund and Torin Domay invited him into their homes, and became his friends. Retired vice principal Rick Hugh attended Lord Tweedsmuir when Sampare was there, and remembers him as someone who “definitely left his mark on the school.” “He was very involved in many aspects
of student life,” Hugh said. In his final year of high school, Sampare carved a traditional pole, calling on some of his First Nations friends – like Boyd Woods (Squamish) and Cameron Wallace (Nisga’a) – to help him at the pole raising ceremony. It took place in the gym, in front of the entire student body, and the pole stood in the school foyer for decades. “When I carved that pole, that was my
gift to Lord Tweedsmuir to show my appreciation for opening me up,” he said. He graduated in 1971. Sampare has witnessed a lot of changes since then, both at home and in the wider community. The biggest lesson he learned at Lord Tweedsmuir was, “We can live together,” he said. Penny Turpin, host teacher of Sampare’s visit, says First Nations students were unrec-
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Not everybody can appreciate the flavour of broccoli, but it is hard to deny how healthy this vegetable is for us. Consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and radish have been inversely associated with various types of cancer. This can be attributed to the phytochemical sulforaphane, a sulfur-containing isothiocyanate. There is preliminary research suggesting that sulforaphane plays a role in increasing the action of Phase 2 enzymes, which are responsible for inactivating many carcinogens. It may also inhibit the activity of certain Phase 1 enzymes that could increase the carcinogenic activity of some substances. What is exciting is that sulforaphane can also have profound effects on the skin when applied topically. In-vitro experiments looking at the effect of applying sulforaphane topically to skin that has been exposed to UV radiation (UVR) have shown it to be effective at reducing redness and inflammation that was induced by this UVR exposure. Researchers found that this benefit was not due to free-rad-
ical quenching or UVR absorption as has been seen with other phytonutrients (such as vitamin E or green tea extract). Rather, sulforaphane acts to increase the transcription and thus the synthesis of proteins, mostly enzymes resulting in a lasting effect, i.e., the benefit of the topical product will not be “washed away” once the sulforaphane is absorbed. Sulforaphane has also been shown to affect keratin biosynthesis, which suggests that it affects the integrity of the skin. Newco, a Canadian company has developed a line of skin care products called BroccoFusion™ that employs the use of sulforaphane. The lotions can be used to relieve sunburn, heal burns and skin irritations, reduce hyperpigmentation (eg. age spots), help with stretch marks and acne as well as protect and repair UV radiation damage. The ointment contains a higher concentration of sulforaphane and can reduce and possibly eliminate hyperpigmentation, treat skin tags, lessen scars (from chicken pox, shingles, cold sores, and cysts) and moles, help heal cracked skin resulting from chemotherapy treatment, minimize stretch marks, help treat psoriasis and eczema, lighten dark under-eye circles, and may even help with diabetic neuropathy in the feet.
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By Jennifer Lang It was another exciting night at the 39th annual Cloverdale Bed Races, with a double win for Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary, whose boys and girls teams won the mens’ and womens’ divisions. Turkeys Party Makers took home the Centre of the Universe Award after a dizzying number of heats, including special challenges. The annual event features teams racing beds on wheels on 176A Street and is a traditional kick off to Rodeo Weekend in Cloverdale, bringing together a wide spectrum of teams fielded by businesses, non-profit organizations, churches, sports teams and students. Lord Tweedsmuir’s girls track team won its second Chamber Pot in a row, defeating such challengers as the Surrey Beavers Women’s Soccer Team (for The Henry Public House), and building a reputation as a force to be reckoned with. Also for the second year in a row, their counterparts, the boys’
track team, claimed the coveted mens’ Bed Pan trophy for the school, pulling ahead of Surrey Fire Fighters in the last quarter of the race. In the mixed division for the first time in recent years, Turkey’s Party Makers claimed the Centre of the Universe Award, taking its heat against an impressively matched Pacific Community Church, after a dizzying number of heats and special challenges; the Turkey’s team had a record five successive wins in the men’s division until last year’s upset. The award for best dressed went to Douglas Lake Equipment for their orange-imbued entry consisting of a bed festooned with banners and working lights, plus a creditable imitation exhaust that had the crowd in awe. The Stone Pig went to Westminster Savings in the financial division. The event followed the children’s decorated bike parade and a demo by competitors at the World Freestyle Round-Up at the Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair.
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Splashdown waterpark to close down By Martin van den Hemel Many lifelong memories have been created at Tsawwassen’s Splashdown waterslide park. But that will come to an end this season, which is slated to be the last for the facility that’s been serving up waves of fun for more than three decades. Harold Frederiks has been the manager of Splashdown Waterparks Inc. for the past 16 seasons. The lease with the Tsawwassen First Nation, he said, expires at the end of the upcoming operating season (which starts Saturday, June 4 and ends on Labour Day, with the possibility of another weekend thereafter depending on the weather).
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families come every summer. Kids don’t really care if the park is five years old or 30 years old. The park still fills up and people still have a good time,” he said. After this upcoming season, the closest waterpark will be at Cultus Lake, which is about 90 minutes away. The park employed more than 100 seasonal employees, mostly college and high school students, plus three full-time employees. Frederiks said many employees have worked at the park for many years. “There are couples who have met while working here and were married afterward,” he said. It’s ironic that the waterslide
park will be closing just as surrounding development is booming. “This would be one of the best locations to do it,” Frederiks said when asked where an investor might want to build a new waterpark. The mall and residential development nearby would figure to boost attendance numbers. So what’s in store for the final season? “We’re working on plans to go out on a high note,” he said. “We want people to know it’s our last year…we’ll do some throw-back stuff.” Splashdown is located at 4775 Nulelum Way, Tsawwassen.
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Connections from The Killing Fields Cloverdale resident tells the story of a Cambodian refugee By Boaz Joseph In 2014, Cloverdale resident Mary-Jo Glen Ohl was on an eightday river cruise on the Mekong River, sailing from Siem Reap, Cambodia, to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Twice each day, the ship would stop at a small port, and the 90 or so passengers, including Ohl’s party of six, would disembark for a walkabout. During one stop, she decided the port’s hills were too hard on her hip. (It was before her hip replacement). Instead, she stayed on board, and began to talk to the ship’s
bartender, a kind, intelligent young man with the name “Vodka” on his name tag. He had a Grade 7 education, and a fairly good grasp of English. “It’s a lot better than my Khmer,” she told him (Khmer is the official language of Cambodia). As Ohl learned more about him – during the cruise, she never did learn his name – she became more curious about his life, and by the end of the cruise, the two promised to keep in touch via Facebook. Despite limited time for himself and spotty WiFi, over the next few months, Messenger be-
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came their main form of communication. It turned out Vodka’s name was In Sam Oeun – although he did like his nickname, telling Ohl it was fun. Over time, she learned other things. When his mom was 17, she was abducted and enslaved by the Khmer Rouge, a genocidal regime that ruled Cambodia (briefly Kampuchea) from 1975-1979 and became famous for The Killing Fields – and the movie of that title, in 1984. Sending messages from his phone, her told her about growing up in a war-torn country, working long hours for low wages, and struggling to support his family (all six siblings survived The Killing Fields, thanks to his mother, who is still alive). As kids, they found weapons and worked to sell them. Some friends were killed by doing the same with unexploded munitions. He wished he could
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North Delta teacher and Cloverdale resident Mary-Jo Glen Ohl has written a book titled You Can Call Me Vodka: A Cambodian’s Story of Life After the Killing Fields after meeting In Sam Oeun during a visit to Cambodia in 2014.
tell his story in a book. Ohl asked to do it for him. She says he expected something like a scrap-
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Life After the Killing Fields. “I cried so many times writing this book,” says Ohl.
She wrote the story using his words – and drawings. During their Facebook conversations, she learned about his artistic skills. Seeing one of his first drawings, that of a brick house that was the template for a cake decoration on his cruise ship, she asked where the idea came from. “From my imagine (sic),” he replied. In the first six weeks after publication, Ohl had already sold 500 of the 1,000 printed copies of her first book. “I (joked) to the kids that I’m a world-famous author,” says Ohl, a teacher-librarian at Richardson Elementary for the last 22 years. The students in turn suggested as a famous author, she’ll become rich. Ohl fired back: “I’ve already won the lottery. I’m a woman who was born in Canada. Mary-Jo Glen Ohl speaks at a book launch on May 28 (1-3 p.m.) at the George Mackie Library.
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Nanaimo’s Ivy Richardson (left) bouts with Laura Wright of Arcaro Boxing Gym in Seattle during an amateur boxing event at the Cloverdale Legion on May 14. The event was held in memory of Cloverdale boxing enthusiast Jim Gallagher.
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Seven medals for Cerrato at Westerns By Rick Kupchuk Treyson Cerrato has added to an already impressive collection of medals at the Western Canadian Gymnastics Championships in Richmond. The Surrey Gymnastic Society (SGS) member won seven medals over three days of competition, including a silver medal in the
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all around competition in the Provincial 5 category. Cerrato, 14, had a personal best score of 73.15 to place second in the overall standings. The South Surrey resident also won a gold medal in the team competition, and qualified for five apparatus finals where he finished on the podium in each event. Cerrato won gold on rings, parallel bars and high bar, earned a silver medal on pommel horse and won the bronze on vault. “Achieving a top three podium finish in all five of his finals is an amazing accomplishment,” said John Carroll, the Competitive Program Director at SGS. Earlier this season, Cerrato won his fourth consecutive B.C. championship along with four event medals. He also won all around titles at the Christy Fraser Memorial meet in Langley, the Twisters Invitational in Abbotsford and the Surrey Classic. Cerrato was one of four SGS members competing. Muzzammil Taziz, 13, placed ninth all around in the Provincial 4 category, and won a pair of medals. He was a member of the Provincial 4 team which won a silver medal, and won the gold medal in the pommel horse final. Emanuel Gutierrez Sandoval placed in the top six in all events in the Elite 4 group. He won the silver medal on parallel bars and bronze on vault, adding fifth-place scores on floor and high bar and sixth-place results on
pommel horse and rings. Carter Baker, 11, won a silver medal on floor in the Elite 3 category and was also a member of the provincial group which won the gold medal in team competition. The Western Canadian competition was one of two hosted the same weekend by the Delta Gymnastics Society, which also staged its annual Delta Invitational, where numerous SGS athletes performed well. Luke Van Harmelen, 12, was an all around champion in the Boys’ Provincial 3 (under-13) group. He won gold on vault, parallel bars and high bar, added a silver medal on floor and a bronze on rings and was fourth on pommel horse. Teammate Timofey Azhogin, 13, was right behind, winning a silver medal in all around competition while taking the gold on floor and rings, placing second on pommel horse and vault and fourth on parallel bars. Several SGS female gymnasts competed in Junior Olympic (JO) categories. Talya Jalbert, 11, of Surrey won the all around gold medal in the JO3 Senior category, posting top scores on vault and floor. She also won a silver medal on bars and a bronze medal on beam. In the same category, Chloe Dickson, 11, was third all around with a gold medal on beam and fifth-place scores on vault and bars. Maren Paterson, 10, won gold on bars and placed
fourth on beam. SGS athletes finished one-two in the all around standings in the JO3 Junior group. Melissa Piliotis, 10, of North Delta won the all around gold, placing first on vault, bars and beam with a silver medal on floor. Teammate, Maya Wilson, 10, of Surrey took the all around silver with a gold on floor, silver on bars and bronze on vault. The all around gold in JO3 Child division was won by eight-yearold Hannah Mahon of Cloverdale, who won gold on vault and beam and silver on bars and floor. Madelyn Cavasin, 8, won bronze on vault and bars to place third all around. Maria Bashko, 12, of North Delta won the all around silver in the JO8 category, with a gold medal on floor, a silver on vault and bars and a fifth on beam. Teammate Alexa Cannon, 14, of South Surrey was fourth on vault. Uliana Grichkovskaia, 12, of Surrey finished fourth all around in the JO6 category with a gold medal on bars and fourthplace scores on vault and floor. Teammate Mackenzie Long, 11, was fifth on bars and sixth all around. In the JO5 Child division, Viktoria Duchesne, 8, of South Surrey was fourth all around after winning a gold medal on beam and a silver medal on floor. Eva Woodward, 14, was fifth on vault in the JO7 group.
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Curl BC awards for Tardi family Cloverdale curlers to accept three awards in June
Participants sport an infusion of hues at the finish line of the 2016 Color Me Rad run in Cloverdale.
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A 5-km dash of colour Contributed Who knew that running a 5-km run would be so colorful? Ranging from yellows, pinks, blues and green powders thrown at you as you run, to a blast of colour at the after bash, hundreds of runners, walkers, strollers, and people in wheelchairs joined together on Saturday, May 14 at the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre for the Color Me Rad run. Color Me Rad is a run which loosely combines itself with the Hindu celebration “Holi�. The diverse group of
participants, ranging from babies to seniors, climbed the hills of Cloverdale, dashed the trails of the local greenery, in between the horse stables, behind the small pond and through the finish line, all while being bombarded with shades of happiness. There is no timer for this race, only a measurement of how colorful you get at the end of it. There are color stations throughout the run, consisting of non-toxic corn starch based food colored powder. At the end, everyone gathered at the stage for mu-
sic, games and contests, while continuing to be bombed with color. This year, the each color had a smell added with purple as grape and pink as bubble-gum. Color Me Rad is a for-profit business that contributes to local communities such as FeedOne, which is an organization that provides meals for hungry children around the world. For more information about future events, visit www.colormerad.com.
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By Rick Kupchuk The Tardi family of Cloverdale will be prominent next month at the Curl BC awards ceremony in Burnaby. Tyler Tardi will collect a pair of awards, while father Paul will be called on stage to accept a third. Curl BC will recognize the best in provincial curling at their annual Awards Banquet June 11 at the Fortius Sport & Health building in Burnaby, the home of Curl BC. Tyler Tardi will share the Junior Male Athlete of the year award with Sterling Middleton of Fort St. John. The pair won a gold medal curling for the Canadian team at the Youth Olympic Games in Norway. Both curlers were also champions at the 2016 Tim Hortons B.C. Junior Men’s Curling Championship and won the bronze medal at the Canadian Junior championships. Tardi and Middleton are part of the group which won the Team of the Year award. Tardi skipped the team which was first in B.C. and third at nationals, and also included brother Jordan Tardi. Other team members are Daniel Wenzek of Burnaby and Nicholas Meister of Langley. Paul Tardi coached his two sons on the B.C. Junior Championship team, and will share the Anita Cochrane Award as Coach of the Year with Katie Witt of Coquitlam. “Widely respected by athletes and coaches, Paul is a true leader,� said a Curl BC press release. “Described by his team as ‘a great role model’ Paul
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Tyler Tardi will collect a pair of awards at the Curl BC Awards Banquet June 11.
exhibits outstanding sportsmanship both on and off the ice.� Karen Lepine of Surrey has been named Curl BC’s Female Athlete of the Year. She started the season with a gold medal at the 55-Plus Games in August at the Vancouver Curling Club, and last November skipped a masters men’s team to victory at a bonspiel, despite being the only woman at the event. Lepine went on to win the B.C. Masters Curling Championship and represented to province at the national championship in Nova Scotia. She was in Kelowna to skip another team to victory at the Pacific Coast Masters Curling Association/BC Interior Masters Curling Association Combined Championships.
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Organized by the newly-formed Cloverdale Arts & Entertainment Association, the monthly Saturday Summer markets have grown from humble beginnings in 2014 into a fully-fledged attraction that will close two blocks of 176th St between 56A Ave and 58 Ave in the historic town centre on May 28th. Running from 10am to 3pm, it’s the first of five monthly markets, planned for the last Saturday of the month through September.
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Classically trained singer and Celtic harpist Leanne Page, joins her multi-instrumentalist son, Connor Page to play and sing music from the British Isles and beyond. Leanne, a versatile musician who lives in Port Kells Surrey and who was featured on the front page of the PeaceArch News last December performing at the Historic Stewart Farmhouse, trained as an opera singer and blends her soprano voice with the harp to perform everything from the beautiful folk songs of Robert Burns to operatic arias to popular songs from theatre and film. Connor, a grade 12 Lord Tweedsmuir student and accomplished musician, adds the gentle strings of the classical guitar and the merry tones of the Irish whistle to create a rich and magical musical landscape which ranges from happy hornpipes to lilting airs. Together they perform their unique blend of Celtic and classical music all
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