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Your Weekly Clover Valley Newspaper February 14, 2013 ❖ www.CloverdaleReporter.com ❖ 604-575-2405 Treeland Realty
Heeding a call to action
‘Amazing response’ to call for replica rail station sponsors, donors By Jennifer Lang A heritage railway station is gradually taking shape in Cloverdale, where volunteers and sponsors have been climbing on board what’s been dubbed the People’s Railway, set to launch this May. A recent sponsorship campaign for building materials, labour and cash to construct and complete Cloverdale Heritage Station has been an unqualified success, says Allen Aubert, secretary of the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society. The FVHRS has spent the past decade working to return an original B.C. Electric Railway car to the original line. Twenty four sponsors for the Cloverdale Station building project signed up, meaning virtually no more are needed at the moment – just a landscape supplier who could
provide conifers for hedging, topsoil and someone to dig it into the ground, Aubert said. “Everything else is pretty nearly spoken for. The actual response has been amazing.” Thanks to such generous support, the replica station will be solidly built, but will
A replica of the original BCER Interurban station is taking shape in Cloverdale.
also have the so-called extras, like heritage-style windows and doors plus otherwise budget-busting flourishes
that will make the building a showpiece in the historic Cloverdale town centre. He believes the sponsorship campaign has gone smoothly because the project sparks imaginations, particularly once construction began in late November, under some of the wettest skies imaginable. “It’s something to see and touch,” he said. “I guess seeing is believing for some people.” The walls are now up, the roof is on, as is the platform where passengers will board the weekend service – all volunteer operated – between Cloverdale and Sullivan Station at 152 St. and 64 Avenue. It’s part of an overall project in partnership with the City of Surrey and the Southern Railway of B.C., with the assistance of B.C. Hydro. Cedar shingles have spruced See INAUGURAL / Page 11
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Flyin’ finale
Chilliwack’s Brandon Baines practices at the Cloverdale Agriplex on Saturday afternoon prior to competing in the Intermediate category in the evening’s KTM Canadian Arenacross Championship finale.
Mom wants province to cover IVF costs Money was an issue when the Busches sought fertility treatments, so Misty risked conceiving twins
The Busch twins were born prematurely.
By Jennifer Lang For Cloverdale mom Misty Busch, the hardest part of giving birth to premature twins was having to leave her babies at the hospital the end of every day, even though they were in good hands. Misty’s baby boy and girl were born with a low birth weight and feeding complications that required several agonizing weeks in the neo-natal intensive care unit.
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“It was horrible leaving your babies at the hospital,” she says. The twins were born at just 33 weeks, after a difficult, high-risk pregnancy plagued with problems. Twins are more likely to be born prematurely, setting them up for a higher risk of complications and long-lasting health impacts such as developmental delay and cerebral palsy. Just 12 weeks after she’d conceived
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through in vitro fertilization, Misty developed gestational diabetes, and was prescribed bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy – a span of four and a half months, from September to the third week of January. “There were lots of hurdles,” she remembers. Just 26 when she and her husband
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