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Crowds fill Columbia Street for Saturday’s food truck festival.
Food truck fest wheels in the crowd Downtown’s new festival brings double the expected turnout grant granger
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Kendra Johnston had visions of 10,000 people on Columbia Street for New Westminster’s first food truck StrEAT festival. What her eyes feasted on Saturday afternoon was way beyond what she imagined, and now she envisions making it even bigger and better. The executive director of the Downtown New Westminster
Business Improvement Area got to 9 p.m.) of the event. the idea of putting a whole bunch “It was exciting. I was very excited of food trucks on the street at the to see it come to life and have such same time from a a great response,” successful weekly said Johnston on event run in a Monday. Kendra Johnston, Downtown BIA parking lot in “We were a I don’t think anyone was prepared Vancouver. victim of our own for that kind of crowd, so some She took it a success in terms trucks did run out of food before step further by of the crowd. the end of the event. putting it on New My goal was to West’s main drag, and the result attract 10,000 people and the New was swarms of people enjoying the Westminster police service said sunshine and music as they lined up 20,000 people came. for the food, which in some cases “I don’t think anyone was didn’t quite last the full six hours (3 prepared for that kind of crowd,
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so some trucks did run out of food before the end of the event.” Most of the trucks do their weekday business in Vancouver. The festival made them accessible to residents of New Westminster and surrounding cities, with visitors spilling out of the SkyTrain stations out onto Columbia. Add a beer garden and entertainment as well as not charging admission like a weekly Sunday food truck festival in Vancouver, and Johnston had a recipe for success.
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Queen’s Park and Victoria Hill residents are being warned about a rash of break and enters in their neighbourhoods because of easy access to homes during the warm weather. New Westminster police sent a notice around in those neighbourhoods saying there’s been an increase in break-ins in the early evening hours, and the target entry points have been windows and doors left open because of the heat. The department’s crime prevention team suggests residents always lock up when they’re not at home or not in the immediate area, protect windows, doors and patio doors by installing secondary locking devices that still allow air flow, make the home appear occupied with lights, timers and radios, keep valuables out of view, and communicate with neighbours about activity in the area. For more go to www.nwpolice.org or call 604-529-2446.
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