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Prized giants here for Rodeo Champion Clydesdales coming to Cloverdale for the first time Reporter. “You just try to give back to the comBy Jennifer Lang It’s sure to be a dream come true for local munity you live and work in. It just seemed businessman and draft horse fan Terry Stewart like a great thing to try and make happen.” He originally fell for the Clydesdale team 10 this May long weekend, when Cloverdale welyears ago, when he spent the afternoon touring comes a team of picture-perfect their home barns in Oklahoma, equine stars to the Cloverdale and has since watched them in Rodeo. action at the Calgary Stampede, The Express Clydesdales are among other venues. a team of six heavy draft horses He was amazed at the “phethat will appear at a number of nomenal” number of people who events during the 2014 Clovercame through the gates just to see dale Rodeo and Country Fair – the heavy horses, and impressed and in the historic town centre by their remarkable relationship – May 16 to 19. with their human fans. Wherever they appear, the “They’re so big and so gentle,” horses are sure to draw admirStewart said. “These horses are ers of their size and beauty. Bred gentle giants.” for work, they wear shoes the He’s had the good fortune to size of dinner plates, weigh 2,000 Admired for their colour. see the Clydesdales at a number pounds, and stand six feet tall or of work-related functions; the higher. Prized for their rare colour – black, with a white blaze and legs, and team is the official mascot of Express Employblack mane and tail – the Clydesdales are ce- ment Professionals. CEO Bob Funk likewise fell in love with them on a 1998 visit to Saslebrities and champions. Stewart, who for nine-and-a-half years has katchewan, where the horses are originally owned Express Employment Services in Clo- from, and brought them to his home state. While the team frequents the Calgary Stamver Square Village, has long wanted to bring pede, the horses only come to Canada “once or the black beauties to town. “We’ve always been rodeo fans,” he told The See GENTLE GIANTS / Page 4
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Spring has arrived outside the Surrey Archives building in Cloverdale, where ornamental fruit trees are bursting with delicate blossoms.
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Jen Pinch is on Be the Boss Canada.
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By Jennifer Lang TV viewers in Cloverdale can cheer on a hometown hopeful in next week’s episode of Be the Boss Canada, a reality series airing on the W Network. Jen Pinch is one of two employees from The Bone & Biscuit Co. going head-to-head on the April 10 show. The pair undergo various challenges during a week-long job interview in hopes of landing a really big promotion with the company. Pinch, a Langley mother of three and manager of The Bone & Biscuit Company at Clo-
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verdale’s Brick Yard Station, competes against Ashley Beaumont from the Kelowna store of the natural pet food chain. Challenges include baking muffins for dogs and talking up the benefits of natural pet food products to strangers. When first contacted by the show’s producers last June, Pinch didn’t know they were asking her to be on a reality show. She thought she was being asked to take part in a documentary about small business. “I didn’t know anything until I got there for the first day.”
She underwent an interview process, but the producers were keeping mum about the name of the actual show. Pinch only realized something was up when a car pulled up that Monday morning in Kelowna. “Oh my god, there’s a camera right there,” she thought. “It was like being on The Bachelor.” Pinch quickly put two and two together. “I’d happened to see the show,” she explains. The first challenge was working as a team with her Kelowna competitor, running a store,
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