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Brewmaster Peter Schulz, Jorden Foss and James Garbutt celebrate the opening of their New Westminster micro-brewery, Steel & Oak. Visitors to the lounge will be able to try the beers they’re offering, then take them home in giant “growler” bottles. The brewery plans to add a bottling line later this year.
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There’s a lot of blood, sweat and tears in Steel & Oak. Money too. As well as sleepless nights, hours completing paperwork, anxiety over faltering equipment. In fact, getting New Westminster’s first craft brewery up and running has been such a harrowing, roller coaster experience, Jorden Foss and Jamie Garbutt would do it all over again. In the pull of a tap. Even as the duo, along with
brewmaster Peter Schulz, prepared and Schulz have barely had time to to welcome the general public taste the ferment of their labours. to their tasting room for the But if the buzz on social media, first time on Tuesday, there were the response at local pubs with complications. their initial brews The sign was on tap, and the finally going up on lineup out the Jorden Foss the front of their door of members People are relying on us. building next to They want to be proud of us. of their Founders’ the Third Avenue Club getting an overpass after early preview last languishing for months in city weekend are any indication, they’ll building codes and red tape. The enjoy every hoppy drop. CO2 system to power their taps The journey from a couple of broke down. buddies with a taste for craft beer It’s been so busy Foss, Garbutt and an idea to opening the first
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End-of-school traditions have been casualties of the teachers strike, but parents at John Robson elementary kept one alive. Every year Grade 7s graduating from Robson have been treated to a trip to the water slides at Cultus Lake and another to Loon Lake Camp north of Maple Ridge. Those were cancelled because of the strike. But their parents made sure the last group to graduate from Robson before it falls to the wrecking ball weren’t deprived of a third tradition. That would be the annual grad ceremony. This one, though, wasn’t at the school. Isabel Downey said a group of parents were chatting earlier this month, bemoaning the loss of the three milestone events the students had been anticipating all year. “[The students] don’t understand because of the politics,” said Downey. “My son was missing out on these things. Last year, my other son got to go to Loon Lake, got to go to the water slides and go to the grad ceremony. So my son got to see his sibling do all these things and he doesn’t get to.” see CEREMONY, A5