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Where will it go? Re-routed railway could bypass White Rock for Cloverdale By Jennifer Lang Advocates of the plan cite the Will Cloverdale be asked to take recent Lac Megantic oil disaster, the push to increase coal train more trains to benefit White Rock shipments, the death of a jogger and posh South Surhit by a train in White rey neighbourhoods Rock, the slide-prone like Ocean Park and “No alignment has escarpment in Ocean Crescent Beach? been selected. We Park and the state of That’s the question a crumbling railway locals are asking after are merely getting bridge over the Campthe mayors of White Rock and Surrey feedback from the bell River for seeking what they call a safer revealed they’ve been community.” route. privately talking for And they say months about the - Mayor Dianne Watts clearing trains and possibility of reroutthe railway off the ing the BNSF railwaterfront would open way away from the up an ocean-side promenade runwaterfront – presumably through ning from White Rock to Crescent Cloverdale. Beach, and beyond to Tsawwassen. “Seems like this is caving to the According to White Rock rich folks,” said Ginger Hartman Mayor Wayne Baldwin, the cost of on the Reporter’s Facebook page.
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A freight train moves through White Rock on the BNSF line, under discussion for relocation.
moving the railway line to a new alignment could cost $350 to $400 million. He said staff from the two cities have been working jointly to prepare a business case to reroute the
railway line since August. It was unclear as of press time exactly what route a new railway line might take to bypass White Rock. A public forum on the issue was
slated for Tuesday night. “There are significant safety issues,” Mayor Dianne Watts told the Reporter. “No alignment has
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Rival schools battle for donations It’s Lord Tweedsmuir vs Clayton Heights as a long-seated rivalry goes to bat for Christmas Hamper Program
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Will a formal competition net more donations?
By Jennifer Lang It’s an idea whose time has come. Lord Tweedsmuir and Clayton Heights secondaries have turned a good-natured rivalry into a formal challenge in the spirit of helping Cloverdale’s neediest families this Christmas. In recent years, the two schools have unofficially kept an eye on who has collected the most donations for the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper Program. But this year, it’s on. For the first time, the two lo-
cal high schools have launched a formal competition to see which school can bring in the most donations for the program, a nondenominational community campaign that helped out about 230 local families and individuals last year. Schools are among the program’s biggest supporters in terms of donations of non-perishable food items, ahead of community organizations, businesses, churches and other schools. Will the Panthers pounce the Night Riders – or will the Riders
yield to the big cats? We’ll find out when the contest ends Dec. 6. Meanwhile, donation boxes have been set up in classrooms throughout both schools, and students are roaming the community to collect donations to help put their school over the top. “We have just been everywhere,” Lord Tweedsmuir student co-council president John Wu said. The schools challenge each other on the football field at the Stetson Bowl each year, but “we thought we might as well do
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something non-sports related,” Wu said. In a high-stakes diplomatic move for Tweedy, Wu broached the subject with his counterpart at Clayton Heights two weeks ago. They went for it. “The overall goal is that no matter which school wins, the community benefits from it,” he said. Tweedsmuir has a worthy rival in Clayton Heights, which has historically led donations to the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper
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