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After taking a decade-long pit stop while her three kids were small, Cloverdale’s Karen Wilkie has returned to the racetrack at Agassiz, where she’s enjoying a comeback. See page 11 for the full story.
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By Jeff Nagel B.C. strawberry growers are enjoying a very early crop and blueberry farmers are about to join them. A mild winter and a warm, dry spring has been ideal for growing quality blueberries much sooner than usual, says Jason Smith, an Abbotsford blueberry farmer and chair of the B.C. Blueberry Council. “I’ve heard that some growers may start around the 15th of June in the eastern part of the Valley,” Smith said. He expects many blueberry farms will be producing by about June 20-25 – well ahead of the typical start of the season between the end of June and July 5. Smith said there’s some risk the season could end earlier than normal as well if the weather stays mostly dry. “If I could control the weather I would love to see a good strong inch of rain now, a good strong inch of rain in one week and then good, warm, dry weather around 25 to 27 degrees.” Some strawberry farms began selling around May 18. Richmond strawberry farmer Bill Zylmans said he can’t remember his family ever harvesting this early since they started growing in 1952. “We didn’t have a winter, so the plants didn’t go dormant,” he said.
More classrooms for Adams Road elementary By Jennifer Lang Adams Road, a Cloverdale elementary school that opened just four years ago, is already set for a big expansion. The school is getting 10 new classrooms in a new, two-storey addition that will break ground in a couple of weeks, adding 240 spaces once completed next year, boosting capacity to 530. Education minister Peter Fassbender, Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Stephanie Cadieux, Surrey School Board chair Shawn Wilson and others joined staff, parents and students for a sod-turning ceremony Monday. “It’s hard to believe that this school was just opened four years ago, and
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we’re here today announcing another addition of 10 additional classrooms,” Fassbender said. “That’s going to take the capacity of the school up, and probably not in terms of future growth. It’s always the challenge,” he said. The project is one of three new elementary school additions announced for the school district, representing $9.4 million in combined costs. The Surrey Board of Education is contributing $19 million (or 30 per cent) of the total construction costs for the three school expansions (Adams Road, Morgan Elementary and Rosemary Heights), and towards the previously announced $55.2 million
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Clayton North high school. “It’s a significant investment on the part of Surrey School District and the province to make sure we meet the growth that we have and the growth that we’re seeing in the future,” Fassbender said. Located at 18228 68 Ave. in a neighbourhood surrounded by new residential development, Adams Road welcomed about 235 students when it opened in January, 2011. As the community has grown, so has enrolment, currently sitting at 475, with 520 students registered for September. Surrey school board chair Shawn Wilson called the expansion anSee ADAMS ROAD / Page 3
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