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Cloverdale Community Kitchen to host amateur cooks By Jennifer Lang ballots are counted. This year’s cook-off at Clover It’s the tastiest contest in CloverSquare Village runs Friday, May 20 dale, putting amateurs and pros to from 4:30 p.m. until the chili runs the test in a no-holds-barred chili out. cook-off between local businesses There was an added wrinkle this during Rodeo Week. year, which nearly worked to sink Winners are determined by ballot the event. In the past, contestants – members of the public prepared their chili sample and rate the chili, recording their marks on ‘It’s saving the day.’ off-site. Amateur chili cooks a ballot. wanting to enter the - Paul Orazietti, The annual Chili 19th annual event will Cloverdale BIA Cook-off is presented by have to cook their chili Clover Square Village at an approved, Fraser in partnership with the Health-inspected kitchen, potentialCloverdale BIA and the Cloverdale ly driving entrants away. Chamber of Commerce. “It’s definitely affected us,” CloJudges – aka customers and verdale BIA executive director Paul patrons – pick up a Chili Passport, Orazietti said. “We have had a slight and then taste their way through drop in participation.” the tasting area. They rate each This year’s event was in jeopardy chili and drop their passports into until Pacific Community Church a voting box, with the winners See COMMUNITY KITCHEN / Page 3 announced that same day, after the
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New restroom ‘a big step forward’ Designed to give students a safe place to go, regardless of gender identity or expression that was followed by a short, symbolic parade from the new washroom to the school’s Hub. The single-occupant washroom makes its
‘This really proved to us that we may be young, but our voices matter.’ - Mackenzie Jasper, GSA debut after three years of lobbying by students. The new washroom is designed to give all students, regardless of gender identity or expression, a safe place to go where they are free from harassment or discrimination.
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Ponzini said its symbolic value is important. “Having this bathroom in this school is more of a symbol that you can be who you are and you don’t have to be judged or harassed.” Grade 11 student Mackenzie Jasper, a Tweedsmuir GSA rep, said she hopes it will help put an end to discrimination before it begins because students will know that it exists. She credited the work of the GSA and teachers for supporting the project. “I believe this really proved to us that we may be young, but that our voices matter,” she said. The Surrey School District’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Policy addresses
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GSA reps Liam Ponzini and Mackenzie Jasper in front of the new restroom.
By Jennifer Lang Surrey’s oldest high school has broken new ground, celebrating its first-ever Pride Week, and opening a gender-neutral restroom. Rainbow streamers filled the Hub last week and students decorated colourful, tie dye T-shirts. Students and staff planned to wear them May 5 to show their LGBT support at last Thursday’s official opening of the new, all-gender restroom, located on the second floor. “When there are [U.S.] states taking a step back, it’s nice to know Tweedsmuir is taking a step forward,” said Liam Ponzini, a representative from the school’s Gay Straight Alliance. He was to cut the ribbon alongside school principal Allan Buggie during an opening ceremony