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Jody Beugeling (AKA ‘Dixie Day’) is one of the ‘Pin-up Gals’ who injected a dose of 1940s glamour with a modern edge to the festivities by posing for photos at the annual Cloverdale Legion Branch 6 open house June 20. The event marked Legion Week in Canada and featured displays of military equipment and vintage vehicles.
By Sheila Reynolds A new early French immersion (FI) program will start at Cougar Creek Elementary in the fall, and trustees hope to establish another Punjabi language program in Surrey in the coming school year. The addition of the French program is, in part, in response to long waiting lists for parents wishing to enrol their children in FI in kindergarten. The Cougar Creek program, located at 12236 70A Ave., will mean seven of Surrey’s 101 elementary schools now offer early French immersion. Parents with kids on existing wait lists will be contacted first for possible registration. The program addition is one of
several recommendations made in a Surrey School District staff report recently endorsed by Surrey Board of Education trustees. The Long Range Facilities and Education Plan, available to view at http:// bit.ly/1dmdel3, contains more than 40 wide-ranging proposals regarding the district’s future direction and program and facility priorities. Extensive public consultations on choice programs earlier this year showed a public desire to expand socalled ‘choice’ program expansion, particularly French Immersion. “Our board heard loud and clear our parents value the quality and variety of our programs of choice, and they want more,” said board chairSee LORD TWEEDSMUIR / Page 12
Online hub connects Cloverdale New website aims to get busy residents more plugged into their own community By Jennifer Lang When Linda Stromberg and her young family moved to Cloverdale from North Delta, she had no idea what her new community – and city – had to offer. At first, she gravitated to Langley, which is where her husband worked. Adding confusion, the Langley recreation guide even “came to the door on my block in Cloverdale,” Stromberg recalls with a laugh, describing how she shopped there and even used the Langley library system. It wasn’t until she set out to explore the historic town centre that she realized just how many amenities lay right on her doorstep. This spring, Stromberg launched the Cloverdale Neighbour Network, a webAFFORDABLE
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site she hopes will make it easier for residents to swap tips and share information, whether it’s to dish on a new cafe opening up, get the word out about an upcoming school fundraiser, or to broadcast a great recipe that just has to be shared.
‘It really depends on what people do to participate.’ She invites people to check it out, and consider contributing ideas or recommendations to the site, which is designed to evolve and grow. Stromberg hopes the Cloverdale Neighbour Network will allow residents to do
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more than just chinwag over the proverbial backyard fence. Calling it an “optimistic experiment in neighbour engagement,” she hopes the site will help connect people and encourage them to become more engaged in their community. “It’s just a rough shell and the seed of an idea so far, but my hopes are grand,” reads the first blog post. “I want neighbours sharing and working together to build a strong an healthy community despite our busy lives.” Known for her work as former chair of Surrey’s District Parent Advisory Council, and for adding a strong voice to the ad hoc
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