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Tuesday December 11, 2012
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Lose the ‘grandiose’ SkyTrain plan, Watts tells Vancouver
Surrey mayor suggests sattelite UBC campuses, not $3-billion subway by Jeff Nagel VANCOUVER SHOULD pare down
its overly ambitious plan for a $2-billion-plus buried SkyTrain line along Broadway towards UBC, says Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts. She said she’s not worried the heavily promoted Vancouver rapid transit line might take priority ahead of Surrey’s aim of building light rail lines. But Watts warned “nobody’s getting anything” until there’s a deal with the province to generate more Dianne Watts money in taxes or tolls for TransLink and it will be important to keep a lid on costs of proposed projects if that process is to succeed. “We can have all the grandiose ideas that we want, but unless that sustainable funding policy is in place, nothing’s going to happen,” she said.
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Five-month-old Alisa stopped in at the Surrey Christmas Bureau last week. Her parents are first-time clients.
Hoping for some help
Surrey Christmas Bureau needs hundreds of sponsors to ‘adopt’ a family in need by Boaz Joseph TWO STUFFED blue-jerseyed Surrey Eagles
sit on a paper tray watching over K.C. Gilroy as she takes a short break in her tiny, cluttered office during a busy day at the Surrey Christmas Bureau (SCB).
It’s actually never not busy – not since several weeks ago, when Gilroy gratefully accepted the keys, courtesy of GWL Realty Advisors, to 8,000 square feet of space in which to make Christmas come true for about 1,800 Surrey families. Gilroy, a chronic multi-tasker and self-
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described “big-picture person,” is heading up the SCB for the third year in a row. “The big picture is that we can make this happen and it somehow unfolds,” she says modestly. See SPONSORS / Page 3
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