Thursday, September 1, 2011 The Cloverdale Reporter 3
‘Desperate need’ for new Surrey schools
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It’s estimated there will be as many as 12,000 students in portables by the time more schools are built.
5,000 students. While Stromberg has heard an announcement may be on the way from the government, she said the need for immediate
capital funding is urgent. Surrey School Board chair Laurae McNally agreed. “Oh my God, yes. There is a desperate need for new schools in Surrey,” McNally said. “We needed it like yesterday. We needed (new schools) four, five years ago.” About 900 new residents move to Surrey every month and 30 per cent of those new neighbours are under the age of 19, McNally said. “We truly do not fit the mold of any other school district,” she said. “It’s been an uphill battle and those (committee) parents are working very hard.” McNally said that usually people hear about enrolment declines and schools closing in other B.C. school districts, but that’s not the case in Surrey. The committee is urging Surrey residents to write, call or email their local MLA, the provincial ministers for education and finance and the premier to express their concerns on the issue.
Sci-Fi TV series Fringe will be filming scenes at several landmarks in historic downtown Cloverdale today. Crews are filing inside one of the oldest businesses in town, Dann’s Electronics at 5657 176 Street, this afternoon before moving up the street to the cafe at the Clover Inn. The one-day shoot is expected to wrap up at 9 p.m., and the production will be packed up and gone about an hour later. There will be some parking restrictions in effect as a result; limited mostly to the 5700-block of 176 and 176A Streets, and the 17500 block of 56A Avenue. The J. J. Abrams-produced series is set in Boston, where the FBI’s Fringe Division explores unexplained phenomena that seems to be part of a larger pattern with the help of an institutionalized scientist played by John Nobel. The show also stars Anna Torv, Lance Reddick and Vancouver’s Joshua Jackson. It’s been described as Lost-meets-the-X-Files. Season 4 premieres Sept. 23 on Fox. – Cloverdale Reporter
September Specials
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Famously friendly school crossing guard Blanche Vantol assists pedestrians at Martha Currie Elementary. Speed limits will again be in effect in school zones weekdays.
Avoid school zones, BCAA urges drivers By Jennifer Lang It’s back to class Tuesday, which means drivers will need to watch for excited children walking and biking to school, or hopping off busses. Along with the usual reminder to slow down and pay attention, this September the BCAA Road Safety Foundation has gone one step further, recommending motorists avoid driving through school zones if possible throughout the school year. “That goes for parents too,” says David Dunne, director of road safety programs for the foundation. Parents who drive their children to school actually posse the greatest danger to child pedestrians and cyclists
around schools, he says. “The congestion caused by so many vehicles creates a very dangerous environment.” Drivers are reminded to pay particular attention near schools during the morning and afternoon hours, and to obey the 30 km/h speed limit in school zones weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Injuries to child pedestrians are highest in September and October, the foundation says, with children aged five to 14 years at the greatest risk. Speeding is the most common offence, but reports of drivers making U-turns, stopping in no-stoping zones, backing up onto crosswalks, rolling through stop signs, ignoring crossing
guards, and letting children out from the driers side onto oncoming traffic are also common, if dangerous, habits. Children also need to be aware of dangerous distractions, says LInda Lawlor, BCAA’s school safety program coordinator. “Kids should not be talking or texting on their cell phones when they are in intersections or school zones,” she says. Strong research indicates talking on a cell phone while crossing the street may increase a child’s risk of being struck by a vehicle by up to one-third, the foundation reports. For more tips and information, visit www. bcaaroadsafety.ca.
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By Tricia Leslie As the start of the school year approaches, a group of concerned Surrey residents are hoping to highlight the need for new schools in the rapidly expanding city. Overcrowding is extremely serious at Surrey schools and there has been a lack of capital funding since 2005, said Linda Stromberg, a member of an ad-hoc committee formed in March to address the issue. “The new Adams Road school in Cloverdale opened in January of this year, and two portables have been added,” Stromberg told Black Press. “Our kids are our future and our education system is not a place where we should be economizing.” Stromberg – who serves on the ad-hoc committee with representatives from the city, business community, teachers union, CUPE, district parent advisory councils and students – noted it will take up to five years and $273 million to build the schools Surrey needs today. (See letter to the editor, page 4.) And, she added, before construction of those schools is complete, the city’s school population will grow by 4,000 to
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