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I’m not usually one to break stories on my blog (leave that to the newsies) however this one hits very close to home.
The condo development Quattro, that claimed it was going to “bring Yaletown to Surrey”, is up in flames this afternoon (a message on Twitter from Airdrie led me to [...]

I spend a good part of my week defending my hometown of Surrey. Sure the city isn’t perfect, it’s people aren’t either, but I honestly don’t think Pleasantville can be found anywhere in the Metro Vancouver area.
Over the weekend a terrible incident, fueled by intolerance and hate, occurred in the West End.
Early Saturday [...]

This afternoon while popping by Tanya’s house in Surrey I noticed a flyer (”The New View“) from the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association on her kitchen table which contained the following:
It’s Your Downtown - Tell them what you think
One last time, the City of Surrey is reaching out to you, the community, for feedback on [...]

My weekly Hockey Stars post is now up and it discusses team logos and hockey jersey pride. I originally wanted to include a blurb about how in the locally-filmed movie, Happy Gilmore (during the opening credits), Adam Sandler is sporting a Surrey Minor Hockey jersey. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the clip anywhere online so I [...]

I’ve written about the aggravation I have felt trying to catch a bus in Surrey, one that only comes every 45 minutes. I used to have to deal with that every day (during the work week) but somehow it seems even more annoying now that I know the difference in service between regions.

When I [...]

The following is a guest post by DaveO - you can catch a multitude of links to hise various projects on his website and more video on his Blip channel.
All my hipster/greenie/crunchy/urbane pals were all bound for the luminary, venerable Vancouver Folk Fest this past weekend. I turned down extra tickets, rumoured media passes, friendly [...]

We’ll be heading out to Surrey again for some of this evening’s performances at Fusion Festival which will run from 11:00am until 8:00pm in Holland Park.

All photos by John Bollwitt, check out his entire Fusion Festival collection on Flickr
Leave the car at home as this is easily accessible from Surrey Central or King George Skytrain [...]

Last night the Fusion Festival kicked off in Surrey’s Holland Park with dusk performances and all anticipating this morning’s events, concerts, food, crafts and activities. Day two of the Fusion Festival will be going strong until 10:00pm tonight.

All photos by John Bollwitt, check out his entire Fusion Festival collection on Flickr
Tomorrow things will pick [...]

We spent the early afternoon walking around the site of Surrey’s Canada Day celebrations.

There’s so much to see between the temporary maple leaf tattoos, stilt walking and gold panning, and that’s not even covering the midway or any of the two concert stages. Here’s the day in photos so far, captured by John.

You can [...]

Being a media sponsor of the Canada Day celebrations in Surrey this year means that I have over 12 hours of activities, attractions, concerts, food and all out fanfare to cover. This is a pretty daunting (yet fun) task for Western Canada’s largest Canada Day celebration.

We will have to navigate our way around the Capers [...]

Nursing our bronzed (and slightly pink) skin after a full morning and afternoon at the beach, we sat down to hammer out some final touches on the updated Miss604.com WordPress theme.

Over the last week or so John has done the bulk of the leg work to give the site a fresh new look for the [...]