{"id":21585,"date":"2013-06-14T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=21585"},"modified":"2013-06-14T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:43:44","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/06\/14\/neighbourhood-watch-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2360 alignnone\" alt=\"NeighbourhoodWatch_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An annual arts festival expected to attract up to 200,000 people to downtown <strong>Victoria<\/strong> won\u2019t be receiving provincial funding this year, leaving its organizer with some difficult cost-cutting decisions.\u00a0The free <a title=\"No cash for buskers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vicnews.com\/news\/211405601.html\">Victoria International Buskers Festival takes place July 19 to 28<\/a>, featuring actors, musicians, dancers and acrobats on outdoor stages on Government and Langley streets.<\/p>\n<p>Kinder Morgan&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Kinder Morgan's TransMountain pipeline spills near Merritt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merrittherald.com\/news\/211411891.html\" target=\"_blank\">TransMountain pipeline\u00a0has sprung a leak<\/a> in the area southwest of <strong>Merritt<\/strong>, B.C., and the company says the spill has been contained with less than 12 barre\u2014or 2,000 litres of crude oil\u2014spilled.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown <strong>Maple Ridge<\/strong>\u2019s east entrance is going to get the same facelift that the west received at 222nd Street a few years ago.\u00a0<a title=\"More sprucing up for downtown Maple Ridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapleridgenews.com\/news\/211482011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lougheed Highway from 226th to 228th streets will get new sidewalks, street furniture, street lights, road resurfacing and urban landscaping, starting this summer<\/a>.\u00a0The cost of the project will be about $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us have dealt with spotty cellphone service on the <strong>North Shore<\/strong>, particularly closer to the mountains.\u00a0And reception will get worse, says Rogers, as houses are built at higher elevation and an increasing amount of data is consumed. That is unless more towers are built. <a title=\"Three \u2018innovative\u2019 cell towers proposed for West Van\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northshoreoutlook.com\/news\/211233011.html\" target=\"_blank\">The mobile service provider is proposing three new towers for West Vancouver<\/a> along the Upper Levels Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor is thrilled to see <strong>Nelson<\/strong> enthusiastically on board with a competition that aims to spruce up downtown with a fresh coat of paint.\u00a0\u201cEverybody could use a fresh coat of paint,\u201d John Dooley says. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that we try and win this because it could have a big impact on our downtown and give it a bit of a facelift.\u201d\u00a0<a title=\"Mayor confident in Nelson's community pride\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonstar.com\/news\/211446791.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce entered the community<\/a> into the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonstar.com\/opinion\/210116911.html\" target=\"_blank\">Main Street Matters online contest<\/a>\u00a0that started at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. &nbsp; An annual arts festival expected to attract up to 200,000 people to downtown Victoria won\u2019t be receiving provincial funding this year, leaving its organizer with some difficult cost-cutting decisions.\u00a0The free Victoria International Buskers Festival takes place July 19 to 28, featuring actors, musicians, dancers<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/06\/14\/neighbourhood-watch-83\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Neighbourhood Watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"featured_media":21586,"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":[80,26],"tags":[11428,11341,11468,337,11435,10925,479],"class_list":["post-21585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-neighbourhoods","tag-headlines-2","tag-maple-ridge","tag-merritt","tag-neighbourhood-watch","tag-nelson","tag-north-shore","tag-victoria"],"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\/2013\/06\/14\/neighbourhood-watch-83\/\" \/>\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. &nbsp; 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