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Wednesday - Oct. 23, 2024 - Can schools train kids to pollute less?
Tyler Olsen
October 23, 2024
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I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the election results, and what they (and other recent campaigns) say about local candidates and their importance—or lackthereof. It’s more complicated, I think, than we might first think, and hard to explain here in a paragraph or two. I’m going to write about it more in depth in the weekend’s member’s newsletter. At the core, I think it represents a lack of education about our system. So the media have some responsibility. So do people. But so too do parties and the party leaders—who are often best-served when their own MLAs don’t recognize or use the power they have. We’ll see if our current seat split changes that.
Yesterday, we accidentally emailed out our main story. Sorry about that. Technology is hard.
– Tyler
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More buses—and more bus parking on the horizon
The Fraser Valley Express is getting more buses to address overcrowding. The province has also bought a Chilliwack property to build a new storage and maintenance facility. 📷 Province of BC/FVC
The Fraser Valley Express—the valley’s all-too-popular regional bus route—will likely start making even more trips come 2025.
BC Transit says money is now available to add yet more bus trips to the route in January, 2025, just three months after the route was last upsized. BC Transit also confirmed it has bought a new property in Chilliwack to service and store buses. The facility won’t be fully operational for four years, but will address one barrier to expanding the service.
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💧 Some Langley residents remain displaced by the weekend flooding [Langley Advance Times]
💰 A downtown Abbotsford building occupied by a liquor store is for sale for about $9 million [Realtor.com)
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The Agenda
The Fraser Valley’s V-shaped airshed is particularly susceptible to pollution. 📷 KiwiK/Shutterstock
School workshops aim to convince students to pollute less
Students throughout the Fraser Valley will get new workshops on air quality and pollution in the region this year.
The Fraser Valley Regional District has hired consultants to craft new educational programming on airsheds and air quality in the Fraser Valley for local classrooms. The new programming is part of the regional district’s efforts to improve air quality in the sensitive Lower Fraser Valley Airshed, an area that sees high pollution and is particularly sensitive to changes in air quality. The new educational programming will focus on how the choices that residents—and students—make affect the air in the region in an effort to “inspire airshed stewardship.” Kids will learn about pollution, airsheds, and how to reduce emissions and help protect the air they breathe.
The bulk of the educational material will be designed for a fifth-grade level, and the project will also include one-hour workshops in both public- and private-school classrooms throughout the year. The workshops and programming will run throughout this school year.
- Grace Giesbrecht
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🗓 Things to do
Not-so-spooky carnival: The Mission Youth Centre hosts a Halloween Carnival for youth aged 12 to 18 on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 4-8pm. Enjoy fun fair foods, carnival games, a black light candy hunt, and more. Admission is free. Details online.
Music and costumes: Bricklayer Brewing in Chilliwack hosts a Halloween Folk Night on Friday, Oct. 25. Listen to music by Rocky Riobo and Retrofit; come in costume for a chance to win prizes. Details and tickets online.
Horror film: The Abbotsford Film Society features One Cut of the Dead on Friday, Oct. 25. The horror-comedy by Japanese director Shin'ichirō Ueda will be screened at The Banquet Room on Clearbrook Road starting at 8pm. Admission is $7. Details online.
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