{"id":15451,"date":"2012-12-21T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:17:42","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/12\/21\/neighbourhood-watch-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15452\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thevancouverguy\/8257273306\/in\/pool-replace\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15452\" alt=\"VancouverGuy_flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/VancouverGuy_flickr.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of TheVancouverGuy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2360\" alt=\"NeighbourhoodWatch_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some <strong>Kamloops<\/strong> residents wants the City to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kamloopsnews.ca\/article\/20121216\/KAMLOOPS0101\/312169996\/-1\/kamloops0101\/updated-parking-strategies-fuels-debate\">put the brakes on any parking changes<\/a> and hold further consultation meetings with the public.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>City of Langley<\/strong>\u2019s new organic green waste recycling program has not yet begun and already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.langleytimes.com\/news\/184148171.html\">the municipality is receiving a bit of backlash<\/a> from the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Kelowna<\/strong>&#8216;s mayor may be having second thoughts about how the district&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelownacapnews.com\/news\/184141211.html\">$25,000 Hockeyville prize money is spent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esquimalt<\/strong> council has supported a motion to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/184043631.html\">the township&#8217;s first electric vehicle charging station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, on the lighter side, \u00a0<strong>Terrace<\/strong> councillors are worried about the implications of having a large section of land sold off to a foreign entity with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terracestandard.com\/news\/183652241.html\">Santa Claus has re-emerging as a bidder<\/a>\u00a0for the city-owed former Co-op property.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. 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The City of Langley\u2019s new organic green waste recycling program has not yet begun and already the municipality is receiving a bit<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/12\/21\/neighbourhood-watch-58\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Neighbourhood Watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"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":[701,10935,10936,699,2976,700,785,337,703,702,1210],"class_list":["post-15451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-esquimalt","tag-esquimalt-council","tag-hockeyville","tag-kamloops","tag-langley","tag-lnagley","tag-mayor","tag-neighbourhood-watch","tag-santa-claus","tag-terrace","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\/12\/21\/neighbourhood-watch-58\/\" \/>\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=\"&nbsp; A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. 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