{"id":12485,"date":"2012-07-20T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:17:45","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/20\/neighbourhood-watch-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12487\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48346846@N08\/7576891562\/in\/pool-644084@N23\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12487\" title=\"CaughtmyEye - Jericho Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/CaughtmyEye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of it caught my eye.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2360\" title=\"NeighbourhoodWatch_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>$260,000 collected from a provincial program grant aimed at ridding properties of pollutants so they become usable again will be used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/162458686.html\" target=\"_blank\">help clean up two local properties <\/a>affected by industrial or commercial use in Terrace?<\/p>\n<p>The Aldergrove Pool Committee is working hard at attaining community support to push Township council&#8217;s to approve a plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/162671096.html\" target=\"_blank\">construct a community recreation facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The summer is treating mayors and councillors who sit on Metro Vancouver&#8217;s board or its committees well, as they are enjoying a nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/162746526.html\" target=\"_blank\">five per cent increase in the meeting fees they collect<\/a>. They are currently paid $346 for every meeting they attend\u2014up from $330 in 2011 and $322 in 2010. The fees double if a meeting exceeds four hours.<\/p>\n<p>BC Lottery Corporation officials appears to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/162952766.html\" target=\"_blank\">calmed fears of Cloverdale business leaders<\/a> that a proposed South Surrey casino would negatively impact existing gaming business by providing assurances the planned casino would not offer competition to Cloverdale\u2019s Fraser Downs Racetrack and Casino.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. $260,000 collected from a provincial program grant aimed at ridding properties of pollutants so they become usable again will be used to help clean up two local properties affected by industrial or commercial use in Terrace? The Aldergrove Pool Committee is working hard at attaining<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/20\/neighbourhood-watch-39\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Neighbourhood Watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232],"tags":[9357,9359,965,561,337,350,9358,1210],"class_list":["post-12485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-aldergrove-pool-committee","tag-bc-lottery-corporation","tag-british-columbia","tag-metro-vancouver","tag-neighbourhood-watch","tag-surrey","tag-township-council","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neighbourhood Watch - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/20\/neighbourhood-watch-39\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neighbourhood Watch - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. $260,000 collected from a provincial program grant aimed at ridding properties of pollutants so they become usable again will be used to help clean up two local properties affected by industrial or commercial use in Terrace? 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