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12 years later, proposal for road through popular Surrey park back on the table
Currently in Surrey, there’s just one east-west arterial road through the heart of the city between 72nd and 96th Avenue the busy 88th Avenue thoroughfare. Mayor Doug McCallum would like to make a second one.
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Connecting 84th Avenue through Bear Creek Park voted down in 2009, but mayor says congestion has grown since
Posted: May 05, 2021 5:00 AM PT | Last Updated: May 5
Surrey s 84th Avenue is predominately a busy east-west road through the city, but stops at Bear Creek Park.(Google Streetview)
If you could go back one year, what would you have done differently?
If I could go back one year, I would be sure to tell my students how much I love them and show them how strong and smart they are. One of the biggest struggles last spring was how lonely and isolated my first-graders felt. They were scared of COVID, but I think even more so they missed their friends and teachers. They really need that personal human interaction to thrive and during those last few months of school they were deprived of that.
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Surrey councillor Jack Hundial produced a motion last month to “develop a meaningful, respectful acknowledgement before every Council and Committee meeting … in recognition that we are settlers here on this Coast Salish Land.” However, Safe Surrey Coalition (SSC) council members, including Mayor Doug McCallum, rejected the motion January 11 in a 5-4 vote. SSC councillor Allison Patton said Hundial was not being “authentic.” While Hundial expressed he was “shocked” after the rejection, McCallum explained, “we [City of Surrey] treat them [First Nations] better in Surrey than anywhere.” McCallum agreed with his fellow SSC councillors Laurie Guerra and Doug Elford that there is nothing wrong with a land acknowledgement; however, it ought not to be legislated, or mandatory, under city policy.
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