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‘Soft opening’ for multiple-use facility is just in time for Spring Break During the soft opening, operating hours are By Jennifer Lang You can now pump iron, bash birdies or Monday to Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (in send your child to a Spring Break basketball effect to April 2). Regular hours will be from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday and camp, right here in downtown Cloverdale. Months of construction finally over, the new from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information, call 604-598-7960. Cloverdale Recreation Centre While some Cloverdalians are welcomed its first visitors Monday thrilled about a close workout morning, quietly opening for a spot, others were critical of the few badminton games, lunch time lack of a pool. workouts and other activities. “I assumed it would – I was The $20-million, multi-purpose pretty disappointed,” local mom facility is so new, scaffolding was Kristy Hill told the Reporter. still attached to an exterior wall Along with youth programprior to its first days in operation. ming, the new facility will also be A peek inside during the “soft home to the Cloverdale Seniors’ opening” March 14 revealed a Centre, closing its doors at 6022 gleaming foyer, spacious fitness 176 Street March 21, and re-openand weight room and activity aring at the new rec centre April 4. eas. Until then, all regularly schedIt’s also home to three full-size Kid’s recreation room. uled seniors’ centre activities are gymnasiums, plus multipurpose cancelled, except for pre-schedrooms for pre-school, seniors and uled income tax appointments. youths. The March Annual General Meeting has The 66,000-square-foot centre, at 6188 176 been postponed until the move is complete. Street, is similar in design to the City of Surrey’s Guildford and South Surrey Recreation “I’m sure you will all want to come to see our spiffy new premises,” seniors’ centre advisory centres. For now, it’s open for drop-in gym sports, board president Marli Stobbe told members in weight room, fitness classes, child-minding the latest newsletter. “Pass the word around to all your friends and spring break camps, and swings into full and neighbours – we will have lots of room!’ operation Monday, April 4.
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By Jennifer Lang Pekoe the orange tabby is definitely on the last of his nine lives – and holding. He was rescued as a tiny, 12-week-old kitten suffering from a blocked urethra. He couldn’t pee. Urine was draining between the muscle layers in his leg – as painful and as serious as it sounds. Fortunately for Pekoe, his new home was with Cloverdale’s Jim and Dr. Susan Thompson. Susan is a veterinarian who performed an initial surgery to alleviate the blockage, plus several follow-up
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a new lease on life to so many others was facing a health crisis of his own. cations, despite the success of his After the tumour was removed, reconstruction. Pekoe underwent several rounds “He just chooses to do it,” of chemotherapy. The latest one sighs Jim, practice manager of was the kind that knocks Cats at Home, a local cat out the immune system. As hospital the Thompsons a result, he spiked a fever of set up in 2000, when Pe42, well over normal. It was koe moved into the office touch and go. Remarkably, full-time. a few days later, Pekoe was Pekoe’s job is to mingle feeling grouchy, but well with clients in the waiting enough to rove around the room. But it’s not all snorgles clinic for a bit. on inviting laps and purr-inMost clients don’t opt for ducing scratches behind the the kind of top notch canears. cer care Pekoe is getting. He’s got a more serious It’s very expensive. function. Several times a But in turn, what is year, when a patient has suflearned from his care will fered a violent trauma or is in help Dr. Thompson and the an acute medical emergency staff help other cats down (think car accidents or perthe road. forated gastric ulcers), Pekoe Meanwhile, a new Cats donates blood. at Home mascot has been A blood bank isn’t costinstalled in the waiting effective or necessary for a room. His name is Nichopractice of this size. las, a grey shorthair with “It’s not a common thing aquamarine eyes who’s also for us. It’s easier for us to take a vial of blood.” JENNIFER LANG PHOTO a rescue cat. For now, Pekoe’s friends No more than 60 mls is Practice manager Jim Thompson with Pekoe. and family are hoping for drawn from Pekoe, who the best but the future is makes his home in a cage Pekoe was already nearing the uncertain, Jim says. separating the operating room “He’s on borrowed time now, end of his days as a donor kitty from the waiting room. If more is needed, another do- when he underwent a routine because if we hadn’t taken that tumour out, he would have gone.” checkup in January. nor cat is pressed into service. – Editor’s note: Pekoe’s latest ulDr. Thompson felt a lump on Cats have blood types, A, B, or Pekoe’s abdomen, a lymphoma trasound shows he’s in remission; the very rare AB. he’s up for more chemo, but it’s About 95 per cent of North wrapped around his intestines. Suddenly, the cat who’d given (cautiously) good news. American cats are blood type A,
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A spacious new artistic venue in Cloverdale is opening up in Cloverdale later this month. It’s the new fine arts studio space at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Cloverdale campus. The grand opening of the new space coincides with Kwantlen’s Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, Stretch of Road, on view March 25 to 31 at the Cloverdale campus, 5500 180 Street in room 1843. Kwantlen now offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts degree program along with a one-year Fine Arts certificate and two-year Fine Arts diploma. While the Surrey campus is at the centre of Kwantlen’s Fine Arts department, the expansive Cloverdale fine arts space at Kwantlen’s trades and technology campus has ample room for third and fourth year studios – and for large exhibitions like the annual student show. Stretch of Road features the best student work over the past year, and promises to be well worth a look, as is the studio space housing the exhibition, for those who haven’t already checked it out. The exhibition party is Friday, March 25 from 6 to 9 p.m. Gallery Hours are March 28 to 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Closed Sunday.)
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On Jan. 1, B.C. banned new imports of 75-and 100-watt incandescent bulbs. CFLs use 75 per cent less energy than incandescents and last up to 10 times longer. Clayton Heights instructor Sarah Daintrey says at home, she simply replaces incandescent bulbs with long lasting fluorescent bulbs as they burn out. Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned the lights off. A year later, it spread to more than 50 million people across 35 countries, when well-known
landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and Rome’s Colosseum stood in darkness. By 2009, more than 1 billion people participated in Earth Hour. Last year, enough Surrey residents pulled the plug to reduce the city’s power consumption by 2 per cent. That’s actually better than the provincial average of 1.03 per cent, according to BC Hydro, which sponsors the event along with the World Wildlife Fund. Combined, B.C. residents saved 64.4 megawatt hours of electricity in 2010 – the equivalent of turning off 1.4 million lights. Perhaps it’s not so symbolic after all.
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The 1956 graduating class of Lord Tweedsmuir High School was a swelllooking bunch. The Surrey Archives image is part of the exhibition Graduation Through the Ages, on view to April 2 at the Surrey Museum.
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Red Barn fans span the globe He came from Germany to find the Antique Capital of B.C. – and kept on coming back
SINGLES DANCE Thursday, March 24, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Elks Hall, White Rock. Tickets $10. Music by Brian Zalo. whiterockelks431.shaw.ca or 604-538-4016. SUPPORT GROUP The Hominum Fraser Valley Chapter is a support and discussion group to help gay, bi-sexual and questioning men with the challenges of being married, separated or single. Our next meeting is March 25 at 7:30 p.m. For information and meeting location call Art at 604-462-9813 or Don at 604-329-9760. KWANTLEN FINE ARTS EXHIBITION Stretch of Road, Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s annual Fine Arts exhibition, March 25 to 31 at the Cloverdale Campus (Monday to Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Exhibition party March 25 from 6 to 9 p.m. Celebrate the official opening of the new Cloverdale Fine Arts space. Everyone welcome. www.kwantlen.ca/ fine-arts
To the editor; Re: “The End of Antique Alley,” March 4 I’d like to tell you my story about how I found the Red Barn Antiques in Cloverdale. I’m from Germany and like Canada very much, also the fine antiques that are offered there. I found the Red Barn Store 14 years ago, looking for the antique capital of B.C. It was amazing to me, the red barn, so nice looking, big and [with] the old charm. The fine antiques gave a great feeling, also the people who worked there were so familiar and friendly.
After I met my wife Mette from Norway I took her to the Red Barn. She was speechless. We like the place so much and are so sad that Leigh is closing the door forever. He’s a nice guy. We will miss the great Red Barn with all the stories it has to tell... very much. With best regards, Thorsten Trageser and Mette Syvertsen, who will flying in April to Leigh to say thank you for the great time we had there. Freigericht, Germany
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School crunch: commuter solution? To the editor; Re: “Rampant Growth Jams Schools: MLA,” March 11 Your front page column shows that Surrey is suffering from growing pains, with a school enrolment that is spilling over into portables. Many problems and very few solutions. Building new schools is an obvious solu-
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That’s not to say that I always bought antiques every time I went to White Rock, every time I had to drive to Leigh just to say hello. Most of the time there was new old stuff added since the last visit. I bought tiny, big and bigger antiques like parking meters, fire hydrants, pocket watches, dinnerware, Indian masks, cash registers and so much more, shipping them to my place in Germany. So much stuff but my place is too small, too. We had a lot to laugh, to discuss and make jokes [about].
tion. It takes time to plan new schools and build them. We need other alternatives than just portables. If you look north of the Fraser River from Vancouver to Maple Ridge, you will find the opposite problem. That is, too many schools, and not enough students to fill them, resulting in schools being closed down.
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Silvers for Tweedsmuir Local high school students Ken Souder and Hayden Rewald turned in silver medal performances at this year’s regional trades and technology skills competition. Souder, a student at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary, earned his medal in the architectural CADD event at the March 4 event, held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Hayden Rewald, also of LTS, earned his silver in carpentry. The youths were two of six gold, seven silver, and nine bronze medals earned by Surrey students at the Lower Fraser Valley Skills Canada regional competition. More than half of the 180 students at this year’s event were from Surrey schools.
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STOPPING TRAIN TRAFFIC Train traffic came to a halt Monday afternoon after someone fleeing police ditched their pickup truck on the train tracks in Cloverdale. Langley RCMP became aware of the vehicle at around 1 p.m. It’s not clear whether a chase ensued, but the person in the truck pulled onto the tracks at 168 Street south of Highway 10 and drove about 200 metres down the track. The truck was abandoned next to a stopped train. Police were looking for the suspect. – Black Press
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