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Your Week Weekly k l y CClover l o ver Valley Newspaper October 28, 2015 ❖ www.CloverdaleReporter.com ❖ Treeland Realty
Santa seeks sponsor help Cloverdale icon says merchants need to step up
By Jennifer Lang rade of Local efforts to ensure Cloverdale’s parade brightest night of the year lights up the historic town centre in December got a boost last week from the City of Surrey as an appeal for sponsors went into overdrive. Organizers announced the city has come through with $5,000 – money that will help cover approxBruno Zappone imately 75 per cent of the policing and traffic control costs of Surrey’s Santa Pa-
Lights, a lighted Christmas and family favourite that draws thousands to the historic town centre. Co-organized by the Cloverdale BIA and the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce, the 2015 event was in jeopardy due to rising costs – and a budget-conscious BIA board that shelved two signature events this year – the Blueberry Festival and the Halloween Costume Parade. See ZAPPONE / Page 8
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Grim greeter
The Grim Reaper (Eric Champion) greets visitors on their way inside BCER 1304 during the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society’s first-ever Halloween Ghost Train event Oct. 24 at Cloverdale Station. The sold-out attraction included a ghostly hunt for the missing body of the Duke of Connaught, speeder rides and a hop on haunted Interurban 1225.
Keep all emails, Clark tells cabinet minister
NDP leader John Horgan says FOI investigation reveals a culture of deception, deceit and ‘delete, delete, delete’
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that is required to be kept. “We thought, I thought that everything was being done properly, and that’s because there has been really almost no change in the way things have been done for a decade,” Clark said. NDP leader John Horgan said the investigation shows the conduct of B.C. Liberal government staffers, including Premier Christy Clark’s deputy chief of staff Michele Cadario, reveals “a culture of deception, a culture of deceit, a cul-
ture of delete, delete, delete.” Clark said she is taking no action against Cadario, who told Denham she deletes almost all of her sent emails every day. Clark now wants everything kept until former privacy commissioner and deputy attorney general David Loukidelis reviews the situation and decides what must stay and what must go. Clark said she seldom uses email for official business, preferring face-to-face meetings, official re-
cords kept for cabinet and its committees, and phone calls. Transportation Minister Todd Stone said Friday he has made a practice of triple deleting emails that he considers transitory. A complaint from Tim Duncan, Stone’s former ministerial assistant, triggered Denham’s investigation of a freedom of information request regarding Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert. – Black Press
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Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said her investigation showed records were intentionally destroyed to avoid public release. One of those requests was for records related to meetings with leaders of remote communities on risks of travelling along Highway 16 in northern B.C. Clark said she accepts Denham’s recommendations, but there are different legal opinions on what is a “transitory document” that is required to be destroyed and a record
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By Tom Fletcher Premier Christy Clark has ordered all cabinet ministers and their political staff to keep every email they send until new procedures are in place to decide what is necessary for the public record and freedom of information requests. Clark issued the instruction last Friday after B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner condemned the widespread practice of “triple deleting” emails so they can’t be stored in daily computer backups.