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Wednesday, January 16 • 2013
Vol. 5 • Issue 57
Grassroots hockey in the sports spotlight See Page 2
Laying the groundwork for Cabaret See Page 3 arrival of Manamana and the Whitewater truck — it’s clear the trend that has swept through Los Angeles, Portland and Vancouver has reached Nelson.
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Offering delectable dining options in a vast array of tastes, food trucks are populating urban streets across North America. With an abundance of top-notch brick and mortar restaurants, Nelson is the envy of small town foodies everywhere. But the trucks are here and more may be rolling into town soon. In a special two-part series, reporter Megan Cole looks at the past, present and future of the food truck craze and how it impacts Nelson. MEGAN COLE
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For Joscelyn Harris, the seed for what would become the Bite food truck came from a family tradition. Harris and her sister — who started the truck
in 2004 – grew up visiting the French fry truck parked under Sarnia, Ontario’s Blue Water Bridge. The two girls would sit with their fries and watch the freights go by.
The Bite truck became Nelson’s first recognizable food truck, starting a growing trend. While Nelson may only have a handful of food trucks — including the
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ood cart watchers in Portland have a hard time documenting their emergence. Some can trace their existence back to the 1970s, but former City of Portland bureau of planning employee — and unofficial food cart spokeswoman Alma Flores — said they really exploded following the 2008 recession. “I think the current evolution of it, where you see them everywhere, mostly in private lots, would have begun about five years ago at the climax of the recession when it was rearing its ugly head,” she said. “That’s where we really saw the growth of it peak.” Even though Flores now works for the City of Beaverton — seven miles from Portland — as their economic development manager, she has become something of an expert on the movement, the economics and the social impacts of the trend. It is estimated there are somewhere between 400 and 600 food carts in the City of Portland.
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