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This European Honeybee is one of thousands of pollinators who are getting a boost from Honeybee Centre’s Community Garden Bee Project. Over six years, 100 bee colonies will be brought to 50 specially-prepared sites across the city, starting with five this spring, including Historic Stewart Farm and Urban Safari Rescue Society. See ‘The bee plot thickens,’ page 3.
By Jeff Nagel A new report paints a stark picture of how unaffordable housing has become for young people in B.C.’s Lower Mainland in an era of rapidly escalating real estate prices. The UBC-led Generation Squeeze project found just 15 per cent of Metro Vancouver homes cost less than $500,000 and have at least three bedrooms as of 2014. Average prices in the region are much higher, but the researchers picked the $500,000 threshold because it’s twice the cost of an average home in the region in the late 1970s, after adjusting for inflation. “This means what used to buy two entire homes when today’s aging population started out as young adults now only buys two bedrooms,” said Anita Minh, co-author
of the report Code Red: Rethinking Canadian Housing Policy. “Often, that’s not enough for a family with two children.” The report found that while it once took a typical young Canadian five years to save a 20 per cent down payment on an average home, it’s much worse now. Now it typically takes 12 years across the country to save up that down payment, 16 years in B.C. and 23 years in Metro Vancouver, said UBC professor and co-author Paul Kershaw. Despite historically low interest rates, the average monthly mortgage payment required from a young adult starting out in Metro Vancouver reached $3,555 in 2014, See SPECULATION TAX / Page 2
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flat-bed trailer in case a second vehicle was needed to deliver the items and supplied a catering truck to feed the volunteers involved in the trip. McKellar referred to Goodwin as a “kind and decent man.” “He is extremely humble and just a truly decent person, always offering a hand to everyone,” she said. Another donation drive for Fort McMurray relief efforts took place at Agassiz Speedway over the weekend. Visit “Supporting the Fort McMurray Evacuees” on Facebook for more information or call 604-575-8355 or 604-671-7945. A trailer with the items was to leave from Cloverdale to Alberta on Tuesday.
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Attendance soars at Cloverdale Rodeo By Jennifer Lang There was a huge turnout for this year’s Cloverdale Rodeo, with more than 100,000 visitors descending on the Cloverdale Fairgrounds over the Victoria Day long weekend. The 70th annual rodeo and 128th country fair kicked off with a rodeo performance and fireworks display. Over the four-day event, the Stetson Bowl played host to 20,000 spectators who watched the world’s top cowboys and cowgirls compete
for more than $325,000 in prize money. Canadian Jake Vold of Ponoka, AB, took the top prize in the bareback riding event at Monday’s rodeo finals, earning a 92.5 score and $20,000. Jim Berry of Rocky Mountain House, another Albertan, took the top prize in saddle bronc, scoring 87.5 for his ride on Kesler Rodeo’s Spring Tunes. Merrit, B.C.’s Katie Garthwaite enjoyed the biggest win of her career, with a speedy
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time of 15.96 seconds in ladies’ barrel racing. Chase Outlaw of Arkansas was the lone competitor in the bull riding finals to stay
on for the full eight seconds. He scored 89 on Kesler Rodeo bull Shot of Wiskey, earning top prize in the event, $44,000.
The country fair hosted the fifth annual World Freestyle Roundup skateboarding competition, a four-day event at the Cloverdale Curling Rink on the fairgrounds. White Rock’s Andy Anderson won the top prize in the amateur division, scoring 280 points. Diego Pires Afonso of Sao Paulo, Brazil placed second, and Kaue Araujo, also of Brazil, placed third. American Connor Burke of Richmond took the top prize in the
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compared to $1,991 in 1976-80. That means it takes the typical young Metro Vancouverite an extra 2.5 months of work per year to pay the mortgage, Kershaw said. The report found only seven cities in Metro Vancouver have at least 25 per cent of their homes priced under $500,000 (in 2014) with three or more bedrooms – Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Langley City, Langley Township and Delta. (Maple Ridge is the only one with more than half the homes falling into that category.) In Surrey, 53 per cent of homes in 2014 were less than $500,000, breaking down as follows: 30 per cent of under $500,000 homes had three or more bedrooms; 21 per cent of those homes were 1,500 square-feet or greater in size, and 34 per cent had
a yard. The trade-off for a larger home with a yard in one of those cities is generally longer, more costly commutes, the report said, estimating the extra direct transportation costs of living there adds $120,000 to $180,000 over 25 years. The Generation Squeeze report was released Wednesday, on the one-year anniversary of the #donthave1million rally on housing affordability in Vancouver. The report recommends a speculation tax that taxes capital gains on homes flipped in less than two years and a surtax on home values to dampen speculation, especially at the top end of the market. It also urges more tax incentives for purpose-built rental housing and use of new tax revenue to provide other assistance for housing affordability. – Black Press
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public about bees and the importance of pollination. For the bee under-informed, the insects do more than just make honey. Their pollination is responsible for up to one-third of food production – not just most fruits and vegetables, but even beef (cows are fed by bee-pollinated alfalfa). Each year, B.C. needs about 10,000 colonies for its blueberry crops alone. Of those, about 1,200 come from the Honeybee Centre; about 5,000 come from Alberta. For years, beekeepers have noticed significant drops in the numbers of bees in the wild and in their colonies – the so-called colony collapse disorder, or CCD. Population reductions have been blamed on verroa mites, pesticides (notably neoni-
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The “Lunatic Fringe” will flood into Cloverdale on July 1 to catch one of Canada’s premier rock icons. Tom Cochrane and Red Rider are schedule to headline Surrey’s Canada Day celebrations this year – a free event held at the Bill Reid Amphitheatre. This year’s musical talent will also feature Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, The Dudes, En Karma, Heroes of Rock and DJ Flipout. Event festivities include a midway with games and rides, more than 100 exhibitors, an expanded kids’ play area and new for 2016: the Canada 150 count-down zone and the Science World on the Road show. This year’s celebration marks Canada’s 149th birthday. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner said it should be a great event. “Our annual Canada Day celebration always brings out a big crowd to enjoy the festivities and stellar live entertainment,” Hepner said. “With iconic Canadian rock legends Tom Cochrane and Red Rider headlining this year, I expect another huge gathering of flag waving and proud Canadians will be on hand to celebrate our national pride, community spirit and what it means to be Canadian.” Attendance is expected to surpass 110,000. The Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre is located at 176 Street and 64 Avenue in Cloverdale. Doors open at 10 a.m. and goes out with a bang at 10:15 p.m. with a fireworks finale. Learn more at www.surrey.ca/canadaday
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was on the attack about Clark’s here is a nasty edge to prosupport from the chief executive ceedings as the B.C. legislature session winds down, of mine owner Imperial Metals, who also has major Alberta with the 2017 election campaign already effectively underway. oilsands holdings and has been Premier Christy Clark and one of the B.C. Liberals’ biggest donors. B.C. Liberal ministers have been Energy and Mines Minister under attack over their links to big corporate donors, which will Bill Bennett was as indignant as be a major theme for the NDP in Forests Minister Steve Thomson at the suggestion these corporathe next year. You’ll hear more tions were getting lenient treatabout forest companies West Tom Fletcher ment in exchange for political Fraser and Canfor, which escaped without fines after a 2014 cash. audit found they over-cut their northern Bennett points out that the Mount Polley dam was inspected and permitted in the timber licences by close to one million cubic metres. mid-1990s under an NDP government, with a design flaw that went undetected. And it Much of this was during salvage logging for pine beetle damage, where healthy trees remains to be seen what if any charges or were taken as well, at a time when forest fines result against the company, which is already paying a steep price with a long shutcompanies were consolidating, trading down and expensive environmental repairs. Crown timber rights and closing sawmills. It also remains to be seen if Bennett, NDP MLA David Eby, who knocked Clark out of her Vancouver-Point Grey seat even Thomson and other cabinet veterans will run for another term, after what will be 16 years as she was winning a fourth straight B.C. in government. Liberal majority in 2013, has put the media Bennett is adept at needling the NDP, focus on her posh private fundraisers. “Was this decision made at a dinner reminding them that mining giant Teck party?” Eby asked of the leniency to forest Resources managed to find almost $60,000 to donate to them. He referred to John Horcompanies, prompting a rare “out of order” gan as the “ceremonial leader of the NDP,” ruling from Speaker Linda Reid. implying that Horgan has lost an internal Even before the last election and the later Mount Polley tailings dam collapse, the NDP struggle in a party that has turned away from
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its industrial worker roots. Horgan was a reluctant replacement after Adrian Dix flamed out in 2013 with the sudden Earth Day declaration to oppose the TransMountain oil pipeline expansion. This may have won Eby his upset in leafy Point Grey, but the decision and a wordless weather-vane ad lost Dix the province. One of the traditional highlights of the spring session is the premier’s spending estimates, where the opposition gets several hours to grill the premier on political staff, private jets and anything else they want. Horgan kicked this off last week with his familiar list of criticisms on increased BC Hydro and medical services premiums, soaring house prices in Metro Vancouver and the state of seniors’ care, plus a lengthy examination of Clark’s recent trip to Haida Gwaii. Clark treated the exercise mainly as an extension of question period, firing back at Horgan on his apparent inability to lead his own caucus in support of major construction projects. Horgan abruptly threw in the towel at the end of the first of what had been scheduled to be two days, and fled to Whistler for meetings that were suddenly more important than his legislature duties. – Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc
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CONCERT IN THE PARK The Cloverdale Youth Concert Band Association presents a Concert in the Park. Join us for a concert and picnic, Friday, June 10 (6:30-8:30 p.m.) at Bill Reid Millennium Ampthitheatre. B&B Food Trucks will be on location. 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 VENDORS NEEDED Vendors needed for the Cloverdale Arts and Entertainment Association’s Cloverdale Market Days, held on the last Saturday of the month in May, June, July, August, and September. We are closing 176 Street between 56A Avenue and 58 Avenue. Featuring arts, entertainment, and food trucks. Email cloverdalemarketdays@ gmail.com or call 778-574-7004 for more information. 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.
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Arts events inspire, through their magic and storytelling From previous page
Surrey Festival of Dance, the largest amateur dance competition in North America, just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Thanks to SFD, over 8,500 young dancers have danced in the competition, which annually awards thousands of dollars in prizes, bursaries and scholarships. TIM MATHESON PHOTO A dramatic life. Recognizing that cost can be a factor, such events in a nanofamilies can still participate in local annual second. I defy any child to events like Children’s resist The Sorcerer’s Arts Festivals in Richmond, Vancouver, Apprentice, Circus Inand many other Lower cognitus, or Canada’s beloved Juno winner, Mainland or VancouCharlotte Diamond. ver Island centres. Look for her new Large or small songs, “I Have Shoes (the children, or the and I Can Walk,â€? or event!) participants will undoubtedly grow “Put the Beat in Your Feet.â€? in many ways influComing up Under enced by the magic, the Arts Umbrella, for story-telling, and example, is The Gilded interactive theatre at the Surrey Internation- Bat to be staged at the Vancouver Playhouse al Children’s Festival (near the QE) June at Bear Creek Park 9-12. Check it out at last weekend. It’s at www.artsumbrella.com times like these that I Now, I’m off to the particularly miss my library to refresh my grandchildren. memory on the less Just like their parmusical details of Eva ents before them, I’d Duarte PerĂłn’s stellar, have them involved in
but bizarre, life. I’d forgotten that the body of the woman who forged her birth certificate and became Argentina’s ‘Spiritual Leader of the Nation’ vanished for 16 years after her celebrated death at age 33. It was finally revealed that the body had been secreted out of Argentina to Milan, Italy, where it lay entombed in a crypt under the name ‘MarĂa Maggi’. In 1971, Eva PerĂłn’s body was exhumed and flown to Spain, where her now exiled dictator husband, Juan PerĂłn, was living with this third wife, Isabel. PerĂłn and his new wife kept the embalmed corpse in their dining room on a platform near the table. The body, after being held ransom, was finally laid to rest in what amounts to a nuclear bomb-proof underground tomb in the Recoleta Cemetery near Bueno Aires. You can visit the memorial there... and wonder.... ‘Evita’ was an outstanding afternoon musical adaption of an
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unbelievably dramatic life. It has inspired me to investigate the entire story – despite being aware that, like the saga’s heroine, her whole truth lies shrouded in mystery. To quote Oscar Wilde: “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.�
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Cloverdale Bobcat Jack Roberts (right) puts a stop to Cooper Amyotte of the White Rock Titans during an under-12 game at the Vancouver Minor Football Association’s Spring Flag Jamboree at Newton Athletic Park on May 14.
– Ursula Maxwell-Lewis is a British Columbia-based writer and arts enthusiast.
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