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A poll the candidates all relish
Liberals do some burger ballot plumping right before the NDP drops in for lunch By Theresa McManus
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CAN LIBERALS KETCHUP TO HIM? Judy Darcy, left, joins B.C. NDP leader John Horgan at Burger Heaven on Monday. Horgan, Darcy and their entourage stopped by the New West burger place for lunch – and, of course, to cast their votes in the eatery’s popular burger poll. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
The accuracy of election polls may be questionable, but politicians are sinking their teeth into the (b)unofficial poll at Burger Heaven. NDP leader John Horgan dropped by the local eatery for lunch with New West candidate Judy Darcy on Monday afternoon.While the NDP held the lead in the local burger poll at that time, the Liberals tried to take a bite out of Horgan’s visit to Burger Heaven. “They tried to stack the vote,” said Chris Geib, the restaurant’s general manager. “They phoned in a whole schwackload of orders to go, just before the NDP crew came in.They had about eight or nine orders, there was probably about 110 Liberal burgers altogether. Since I’ve been here, that’s the first time that has ever happened.” While the majority of Horgan’s entourage dined on the NDP burger, a few ordered off the menu – but still got to cast a vote for the NDP. “They definitely closed the gap yesterday, that’s for sure,” Geib said of the Liberals. “When the NDP came in yesterday, Continued on page 8
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The unbreakable Susie Chew Susan Chew opened the Waffle House in 1955. She was a single, Chinese-Canadian woman with a great waffle recipe and a cando attitude, and her uptown café became “the” place to hang out, not just for waffles, but also to
find out what was happening around town. She was a “colourful character” with a stake in the community, but one day in 1956, instead of making waffles, she felt like “crawling into a dark cellar, into
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