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Your Weekly W ekll y CClover l o v er Va Valley Newspaper per December 25, 2014 Y www.CloverdaleReporter.com Y 604-575-2405 Treeland Realty
Planned park-in on 72 Ave. cancelled Construction stalled on four-laning roadway
A show of lights
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Gheorghe and Rodica Grigore of 6369 165A Street have strung up thousands of lights outside their Cloverdale home, making for a truly impressive display. It lights up the block – and seems to have inspired the neighbours, making this well worth finding. For more local lights, see page 5.
By Kevin Diakiw A plan to block 72 Avenue last Sunday has been temporarily shelved after an upset group of Clayton residents rescued their parking for now. The parking is being lost because of a long-planned four-laning of 72 Avenue. The project was given the go-ahead on Dec. 15 night by Surrey council. Area resident Scott Anderson said he and several neighbours had planned a “park-in” on 72 Avenue on Dec. 21 to
make their objection to the loss of parking known. At a Thursday meeting with the city, construction on the project was stalled until Jan. 15, when it’s hoped a new parking plan can be put in place. Anderson told Black Press last Friday neighbours will be actively involved in that plan, and if parking loss is still on, so is the planned blockage of 72 Avenue at a later date.
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B.C.-only wines come to some grocery stores By Jeff Nagel The province’s latest liquor reform will make it easier for wine stores to relocate into grocery stores – provided they offer only B.C. wines – but there’s no sign the government is rethinking its change to wholesale wine pricing that will sharply drive up the price of more expensi–ve bottles. Friday’s announcement by Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Langley at Chaberton Estate Winery is being hailed by B.C. wineries because some supermarkets that can begin selling wine come April will be barred from stocking foreign wines. Under the change, existing VQA and independent wine stores can relocate or transfer their licence to an eligible gro-
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cery store as long as 100 per cent B.C. wine is sold. Those licence transfers won’t be limited by a rule that disallows new outlets if there’s an existing one within one kilometre. Liquor policy reform leader John Yap called it a “winning combination” to allow grocery shoppers to also buy B.C. wine and support the local industry. “The B.C. wine industry is entering into a new era of winemaking,” added Chaberton co-owner Eugene Kwan. The new model is different from the store-within-a-store model in that it allows B.C. wine to be on regular grocery store shelves and shoppers would pay for it at designated registers staffed by trained employees who are at least 19. Anton said a limited number of new licences – she would
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not specify how many – will be made available to sell just B.C. wine in grocery stores. The extra licences will mean more competition for private wine stores that have already been critical of some of the province’s liquor reforms. Vancouver lawyer Mark Hicken, who acts for the wine industry, predicts there will be “no takers” on wine stores relocating under the new B.C.-only model because they would lose most of their international product lines. Hicken said the B.C.-only rule may violate Canada’s international trade agreements. – Black Press
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