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Car buff pumps up heritage
Surrey Heritage Society makes pilgrimage to hidden gem
By Jennifer Lang and the 1952 Meteor Custom cruiser, Classic car collector Harold Wellen- “Cool Blue” – and they’re beauts. He’s been car crazy since he was brink, 79, has created a replica Shell Oil service station in the quiet back in his teens, and purchased his first yard of his Cloverdale home, just a vehicle. He grew up on a dairy farm few blocks from Lord Tweedsmuir near Campbell River and worked for Telus (formerly B.C. Tel) until his reSecondary. On Sept. 27, he and his wife Myrna tirement. The gas station only took a year to hosted the Surrey Heritage Society’s build. He says he had two monthly meeting. It was choices – go with Shell a chance for members or B.A. (British Amerto feast their eyes on a ica, which used a lot of genuine Cloverdale hidred, white and blue in its den gem – and get down branding). A coin toss to business. The society settled it. Shell it was. acquired a fleet of vin“I’ve got quite a Shell tage vehicles and freight collection here,” he said, trucks from the Teamsters pausing to show off the Truck Museum earlier contents of an impresthis year, and is working sive collection of Shell to open the B.C. Transmemorabilia, safeguardportation Heritage Cened inside a converted gas tre to the public. Wellenbrink is a Greater Fundraising for the Surrey pump that was lit up like Heritage Society a Christmas tree, adding Vancouver Motorsport to the warm glow of the Pioneers Society Hall of Famer who’s spent the last 60 years station’s interior. “I’ve added to it,” he said, referring collecting and restoring cars and reto his collection. “It’s got a real hislated memorabilia and collectibles. He’s big fan of the 1950s and ‘60s tory.” Wellenbrink is a customizer, somecustom car era. one who can work magic on old “I’ve done it all my life.” These days, he’s down to just two See HERITAGE SOCIETY / Page 2 classic cars – a 1952 Hudson Wasp
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Harold Wellenbrink stands outside the replica gas station he built at his Cloverdale home. Last week he and his wife Myrna hosted a meeting of the Surrey Heritage Society, which is working to preserve and conserve heritage assets.
Tunnel replacement pledged, no word on tolls
By Jeff Nagel Premier Christy Clark is pledging to begin work to replace the George Massey tunnel and ease intense traffic congestion on Highway 99 in Metro Vancouver. But she said it’s way too early to say if the new bridge or tunnel – to be built over 10 years – will be tolled. “I don’t know the answer to that,” Clark told reporters. “We don’t even know what the replacement would look like.”
Some people in the region prefer a tunnel, while others want a bridge, she said. “We are just beginning the planning process.” She made the announcement at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Victoria, and cited projections Metro Vancouver’s population will grow by another million people by 2031 and that traffic volumes on major highways will grow 30 per cent over the same period.
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“It’s an economic bottleneck,” Clark said. “Talk to anybody who drives through the Massey Tunnel in rush hour commute and they will tell you it’s a huge headache.” The announcement is being hailed by Delta civic leaders, who have been pushing the case for a rebuilt crossing with more lanes in light of growing container truck traffic from DeltaPort. But the mere possibility a new Deas crossing would be tolled is certain to inflame the
debate in Metro Vancouver over whether the ad hoc tolling of some crossings must be reformed into some more consistent, equitable system. A tolled tunnel or bridge there in addition to a possibly tolled Pattullo Bridge replacement would leave the Alex Fraser Bridge as the only free crossing of the Fraser River to Surrey and Delta.
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