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Walk in the cold to help new kitchen Teams being recruited to walk on ‘Coldest Night of the Year’ in Cloverdale
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Jim Heuving and Kevin Lunder were on the lookout this week for team captains to join the ‘Coldest Night of the Year’ on Feb. 22 to raise money for charities assisting the homeless. In Cloverdale, proceeds will help launch the new community kitchen at Pacific Community Church.
By Jennifer Lang The goal in Cloverdale is to raise $30,000 to help launch the new community kitchen. Whether it’s the chilliest night of the year – or merely the rainiest – organizers of an up- At least 20 team captains are needed to recoming charity fundraiser in Cloverdale are cruit 7 to 8 of their friends, family members, hoping to recruit at least 20 teams to take part or coworkers, with a goal of raising $2,000 per team. Walkers without teams, volunteers and in the Coldest Night of the Year walk. sponsors are also needed. The Feb. 22 event is all part of It’s one of three walks taking a nation-wide initiative focusing place in Surrey. The other two are on raising awareness of homelessness and collecting funds for local “Together we made helping the Surrey Urban Mission and Sources Community Renon-profits working to address this all happen.” sources Society. the needs of the homeless. Cloverdale walk director Jim Locally, teams will walk 2, 5 or - Alan Caldwell Heuving said the opportunity to 10 km routes through the historic join in the Coldest Night of the town centre in support of the new Year was too good to pass up. Cloverdale Community Kitchen – “It sounded like a great way to hosted and built by Pacific Community Church as the result of 14-month-long raise awareness on homelessness and focus on the community kitchen,” said Heuving, who’s fundraising campaign. Nearly up-and-running now that construc- also a pastor at Pacific Community Church. The event is the official launch of the Clotion is complete, the kitchen will be home to verdale Community Kitchen initiative. three existing programs assisting Cloverdale’s “We really need to finance it,” he said. homeless along with new programs. Between 14 and 15 teams have now signed Last year, 8,000 walkers braved the nation’s toughest weather (Feb. 22 on average is close on for the Cloverdale event, where already to the time of year when Canada’s at its cold- $6,000 has been pledged to the cause. The walk is from 4-8 p.m., but participants est), raising more than $1.6 million for various on the shorter routes will be done well before charities across the country. The aim is to give participants a taste of 8 p.m., he said. A light meal will be provided what it’s like to experience a cold night spent when walkers return to the starting line at outdoors, like a homeless person might expe- Pacific Community Church. In the past few See KITCHEN / Page 3 rience it.
Musical teen hopes to Kickstart her career By Jennifer Lang Budding singer-songwriter Emma Alves will never forget the first time she performed in front of a live audience. She was 10 years old when she sang at a coffee house in Langley. “I remember when I held that microphone. I was so nervous, but I felt so alive!” she says. At that moment, it felt like she became someone else, emerging from her shell to become the person she was meant to be.
Ever since, she’s leapt at each chance to perform in front of a live audience, whether it’s appearing at local music festivals or singing the national anthem at hockey games and at baseball fields. Now the Grade 10 Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary student says she’s ready to share her music with the world, writing songs for a new CD she hopes to launch with a solo concert this spring. Last weekend, she got a taste of what that might be like – she performed backing vocals at a night club in Vancouver for YUCA, a rock trio out of
Langley. Their new album is called Rebuilding the Fallen Empire, and it’s the first release by a brandnew label in Cloverdale, Rising Empire Records. According to Alves’ mom, Charlene, the members of YUCA heard her daughter singing at the studio and really liked what they heard, so they invited her to join them on stage at their record release party on Jan. 18 at the Red Room. Alves plans to take the stage alone on March 28 at The Venue.
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