{"id":8513,"date":"2012-04-19T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:17:47","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/19\/neighbourhood-watch-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8514\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mentalwanderings\/6934224440\/in\/pool-644084@N23\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8514\" title=\"6934224440_8dce932e07_z\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/6934224440_8dce932e07_z-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/6934224440_8dce932e07_z-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/6934224440_8dce932e07_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of Los Paseos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft 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\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cowichan Watershed Board feels something needs to be done about the fact that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/144415385.html\" target=\"_blank\"> 28 per cent of residents in Duncan and North Cowichan don&#8217;t know the source of their water<\/a> with even fewer knowing how much money they spend annually on water.\u00a0 This makes me wonder what the percentage is in Metro Vancouver. Pop quiz: Where does the Lower Mainland&#8217;s water comes from? Feel free to comment below&#8230;.and there is a freebie two paragraphs down.<\/p>\n<p>Burnaby city council unanimously approved a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/147202775.html\" target=\"_blank\">contract worth $950,000<\/a> with MCW Custom Energy Solutions for Phase 2 of the city\u2019s 2011\/2012 Building Performance Improvements Project that looks to improve buildings&#8217; green performance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Metro Vancouver taxpayers may have to pay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/147673115.html\" target=\"_blank\">$300 million to filter drinking water<\/a> from the Coquitlam reservoir if a proposed federal target is adopted calling for a higher level of water clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Great news for parent in New Westminster as the the Ministry of Education and the New Westminster school district signed project agreements for a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/New%20Westminster%20gets%20$30%20million%20to%20build%20two%20new%20schools\/6473637\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> new elementary school and middle school<\/a>. John Robson Elementary School will be rebuilt on the former St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital site while the former Robson Elementary School will be torn down, and a new middle school will be built on that site.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Surrey continues its quest to enliven its public realm courtesy of the City\u2019s Parks and Beautification departments that set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicsurrey.com\/2012\/04\/17\/food-trucks-come-to-downtown-surrey-with-parkit\/\" target=\"_blank\">PARKit program in the North Surrey Rec Centre parking lot<\/a>. This will feature planters, benches, fake and real turf, and a rotating series of food trucks. PARKit will remain in place through to the end of the City\u2019s Earth Day celebrations during Party for the Planet.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The Cowichan Watershed Board feels something needs to be done about the fact that 28 per cent of residents in Duncan and North Cowichan don&#8217;t know the source of their water with even fewer knowing how much money they spend annually on water.\u00a0 This makes<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/19\/neighbourhood-watch-28\/\">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":[965,337],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-british-columbia","tag-neighbourhood-watch"],"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\/04\/19\/neighbourhood-watch-28\/\" \/>\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. 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