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BIA sees signs of promise
‘Small, exciting things’ bode well for Cloverdale’s business community
By Jennifer Lang the former Legacy Show Lounge, a strip club From the arrival of desirable new business- was shut down in response to pressure from es to the launch of heritage rail operations, the the local business community, law enforcepast year has been an eventful one, according ment and the City of Surrey. “They’ve been very responsible in terms to the executive director of the Cloverdale of creating an upscale bar that Business Improvement Associaagain, really ads some cachet to tion – and there’s a definite buzz of the downtown.” economic optimism in the historic Orazietti said the owner of town centre. The Vault Restaurant is working Members gathered for their Anon opening up a second estabnual General Meeting July 11 at lishment on 176 Street, inside the Cloverdale Legion, where Paul the former Golphis location. Orazietti presented an overview of He also revealed that Chef various projects and initiatives. Matthew Stowe, 2013 winner of Over the past year, Cloverdale the reality TV show, Top Chef has seen a number of businesses Canada and local resident, is opening up, along with existing looking to open a restaurant in businesses that have undertaken the area. renovations and other improvePaul Orazietti “Again, these are small, exments. citing things that are starting “Cloverdale has really grown and changed,” he said, pointing to new addi- to shift what this community is about, and tions to 176 Street such as Timeless Treasures, it’s been a long time coming,” Orazietti told a new business specializing in antiques and members. The Cloverdale BIA represents 280 busicollectibles that has relocated from Fort Langnesses in the historic downtown, acting as a ley to downtown Cloverdale. Orazietti also highlighted the Henry Public liaison between business interests and the city, House, a boutique pub opened by the Joseph and working to recruit and retain businesses, Richard Group in the Clover Inn, replacing See TRANSFORMING / Page 9
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Two unidentified youths drop their fishing lines into the Nicomekl River in a photo taken in the summer of 1963. (Image SA1992.036.1292). The image is included in a collection of some of the Surrey Archives’ favourite historical summer photos of Surrey featured in a recent presentation posted to its YouTube channel, Youtube.com/SurreyArchives.
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Poll finds even split on new Surrey coal terminal By Jeff Nagel A new poll of Lower Mainland residents on the issue of increased coal exports has found opinion is nearly evenly split on a proposed new terminal in Surrey. The survey by Insights West found 32 per cent support the $15-milllion coal-handling facility at Fraser Surrey Docks, 31 per cent oppose it and 36 per cent are undecided. A large proportion of respondents weren’t familiar with the proposal, which would bring more coal trains through White Rock
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and South Surrey and send coal-laden barges down the Fraser River to Texada Island, for transfer to ocean-going ships. Insights West vice-president Mario Canseco said the findings show area residents are of two minds on coal. Seventy-two percent believe the new Surrey terminal will create jobs and 62 per cent said coal is a significant contributor to the B.C. economy. But more than two-thirds of residents also see coal dust as an environmental threat. And 55 per cent said they wouldn’t sup-
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port expanded coal shipments from the region because coal is a major contributor to climate change. Canseco said Metro Vancouverites’ awareness of the project is low compared to past surveys that found large majorities of B.C. residents know about proposed new oil pipelines. “At this point, the environmental concerns from residents are evident but there is also wide agreement on the economic benefits,” Canseco said. Two-thirds of respondents also agreed
that coal will just be shipped from other areas if new export terminals aren’t built here. The survey in June of 752 Lower Mainland adults didn’t tackle the two different types of coal handled in the region. Metallurgical coal, used in steel-making, has been shipped through Metro Vancouver for decades and comes from B.C. mines. The contentious Surrey terminal would be built to handle up to eight million tonnes per year of U.S. thermal coal, which is a much
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