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Thursday - Dec. 28, 2023 - The top environmental stories of 2023
Tyler Olsen
December 28, 2023
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Good morning!
I love a good video game, and don’t think they are necessarily bad for kids. But I also know how they can consume one’s time and want my kids to be able to entertain themselves and find joy in other parts of life. So my wife and I have basically kept the kids away from video games to an extent that would probably sound draconian for many parents.
This Christmas, though, we’re changing things up. For a special family present (and after the heroics of a London Drugs employee named Brandon), we got a Nintendo Switch this year. The kids will now get to play games in lieu of normal (also-limited) cartoon-watching times. The idea is that the teamwork, social, and dexterity skills provided by video games make them at least as good as watching another episode of Garfield. So Mario Kart it is. But I also got this game on sale called Overcooked 2. Basically, you work as a team of cartoon cooks to make and serve food. As a co-operative family game, it’s challenging, hilarious, and a ton of fun—even when you accidentally set a pot of noodles on fire and burn down your pirate ship-turned-kitchen.
– Tyler
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2023’s top stories about the environment
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⚖ An Abbotsford man was sentenced to four years of prison for four robberies [Abbotsford News]
👏 A Langley woman reported missing two months ago has been found safe [Langley Advance Times]
🚉 The Vancouver Sun takes a detailed look at how the arrival of the SkyTrain will transform neighbourhoods in Langley and Surrey [Vancouver Sun]
🏒 The Langley Rivermen will honour a former player killed in a car crash in 2021 at a game this weekend [Langley Advance Times]
🐶 After the Chilliwack SPCA issued an urgent request for people to foster an adorable group of puppies there were no shortage of takers [Chilliwack SPCA]
❌ The closure of a gold-panning beach near Yale is linked to suspected mercury in the area [Hope Standard]
👉 Gill Bar could become a protected area managed like a park and open to the public, a Skwah First Nation councillor suggests [Vancouver Sun]
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The Agenda
After years of effort, most structural exterior work has been completed on the historic Alexandra Lodge. 📷 Alexandra Lodge/Facebook
Structural work complete at the Alexandra Lodge
Structural work at the historic Alexandra Lodge was completed last month and interior work on the historic Fraser Valley landmark is now well underway.
The MacKinnon family, which owns the lodge, is working to return the building to its status as a bastion of tourism on the road through the canyon. We wrote about the efforts to save the lodge in 2022 and provided an update in February.
Over the last few months, the lodge has had its walls reattached to the floor and its bats removed from the attic. The main floor has some completed living space, as well as some of the first heating and insulation the lodge has ever had.
The focus is now on the second floor of the lodge, affectionately called “the old girl” on the Facebook page dedicated to her revival. However, some work is still needed to fix the lodge’s new roof after a leak was detected over the weekend.
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