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• Tonight's regular Council meeting starts at 7pm. Can't make it to District Hall? Watch from anywhere, with our live… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 23:51 via twitter.com
  Tonight's regular Council meeting starts at 7pm. Can't make it to District Hall? Watch from anywhere, with our live… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Horgan appoints former Liberal minister to review B.C. wildfire, flood responses

  04-12-2017 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A former Liberal cabinet minister will help review British Columbia’s response to wildfire and flood disasters this year that forced thousands from their homes and caused extensive damage.
  Premier Horgan says a report with recommendations on the government’s response to the disasters is due by April 30 from George Abbott and Indigenous leader Maureen Chapman.
  Evacuation orders affected more than 65,000 people this past summer as firefighting costs topped more than $5
  
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• Kinder Morgan, Burnaby clash in NEB hearing over Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

  04-12-2017 23:31 via vancouversun.com
  CALGARY — Kinder Morgan Canada and Burnaby clashed in a National Energy Board’s hearing room Monday over the fate of local permitting for the controversial Trans Mountain expansion project.
  The company argued at the NEB’s Calgary headquarters that local political opposition to the $7.4-billion pipeline project has tainted permitting in the city and the process is now delayed, requiring the NEB to step in and override local bylaws to maintain the federal government’s wishe
  
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• All is bright: A guide to Christmas light displays around Metro Vancouver

  04-12-2017 22:50 via vancouversun.com
  Bundle up, grab a thermos of hot chocolate, pack the kids in the car and hit shuffle on your holiday hits collection: It’s time to take a tour of the biggest and brightest Christmas lights displays around Metro Vancouver. 
  Follow the map or our list below, which sorts the displays by municipality, and prepare to be dazzled by thousands of sparkling bulbs … and several inflatable Santas.SURREY/WHITE ROCK/DELTA:
  Surrey: 154th Street & 85A AvenueThe Kelly family has put up the
  
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• Another fabulous City Christmas Festival. Big turnout, big success, & the sky wheel was a hug hit. #NorthVan https://t.co/kW4EUBdk4f

  04-12-2017 22:11 via twitter.com
  
  Another fabulous City Christmas Festival. Big turnout, big success, & the sky wheel was a hug hit. #NorthVan https://t.co/kW4EUBdk4f
  
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• Keep an eye out for the 2018 Recycling, Green Can & Garbage Guide – it will be delivered to homes in the next few w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  Keep an eye out for the 2018 Recycling, Green Can & Garbage Guide – it will be delivered to homes in the next few w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sleeping crew member likely cause of tug crash off B.C. coast: U.S. report

  04-12-2017 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  BELLA BELLA — The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says the second mate of a tugboat fell asleep before it ran aground off the coast of British Columbia last year and spilled thousands of litres of fuel.
  The American safety agency says records show the second mate relieved the captain of watch duty and missed a scheduled change of course for the Nathan E. Stewart before the articulated tug and barge crashed near Bella Bella on Oct. 13, 2016.
  The board’s report dated Nov. 21
  
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• Trapped skier rescued from steep slope on Mt. Seymour by search crews early Monday

  04-12-2017 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  Search and rescue volunteers were able to help a skier stuck on a steep slope on Mt. Seymour Sunday evening.
  Using data from the skier’s mobile phone, rescuers were able place the skier about 750 metres down Shone Creek, on the east side of the mountain, south of Hastings Lake.
  “Not injured but stuck,” Mike Danks from North Shore Search and Rescue said. Asked to describe how steep the slope is, he called it “unpleasant.”
  Danks said the rescued skier were finall
  
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• Naughty or Nice? Holiday etiquette on… travel

  04-12-2017 21:10 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the holidays and once you throw some rum in that egg nog, things can get a little messy at the family dinner table, the company Christmas party or even shopping at the mall.
  Sharon Schweitzer is an international etiquette and manners expert.
  Here’s our five-part series Naughty or Nice?, a holiday etiquette refresher with international etiquette and manners expert Sharon Schweitzer.
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  Travel is stressful even on the best days so it’s no surprise that holiday travel &n
  
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• Metro Vancouver real estate prices up 14 per cent over last year: board

  04-12-2017 21:09 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s real estate board says the average property price in Metro Vancouver last month rose 14 per cent from November 2016, with condominiums and attached properties making the biggest gains.
  The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the composite benchmark price for a property rose to $1,046,900 last month — up 0.4 per cent compared to October.
  The board says condominiums saw the biggest jump in prices at $648,200. That’s up 23.9 per cent since last November and one
  
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• Naughty or Nice? Holiday etiquette on… family get-togethers

  04-12-2017 21:03 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the holidays and once you throw some rum in that egg nog, things can get a little messy at the family dinner table, the company Christmas party or even shopping at the mall.
  Sharon Schweitzer is an international etiquette and manners expert.
  Here’s our five-part series Naughty or Nice?, a holiday etiquette refresher with international etiquette and manners expert Sharon Schweitzer.
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  If you tense up at the mention of family dinners around the holidays, you’re likely
  
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• This November was the wettest since 1953, but that doesn't mean we took a break from managing #wildfires! Meet our… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 20:58 via twitter.com
  This November was the wettest since 1953, but that doesn't mean we took a break from managing #wildfires! Meet our… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The Pack A.D. sends itself to the Dollhouse

  04-12-2017 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Pack A.D. Dollhouse Tour with Gang Signs and Dopey’s Robe
  Dec. 8, 8 p.m. | Rickshaw Theatre, 254 E. Hastings
  Tickets and info: $18.50 at ticketfly.com and record store outlets
  Becky Black and Maya Miller have blasting blues-tinged garage rock across Canada and the world for a decade now. The Vancouver guitar (Black) and drums (Miller) duo attacks its songs with the kind of conviction you expect from an MMA champion in the octagon rather than a rock band. This crew absolutely thund
  
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• B.C. court rules against injured veterans in fight for disability pensions

  04-12-2017 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — The B.C. Court of Appeal has dealt a devastating blow to a group of injured veterans engaged in a landmark legal battle with the federal government.
  The six veterans involved in the so-called Equitas lawsuit had alleged that they were unfairly treated because of a major overhaul in 2006 to the way the government compensates those injured in the line of service.
  Chief among the changes was replacing lifelong disability pensions with a lump-sum payment, career training and targ
  
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• Highway 99 in Surrey closed northbound due to vehicle incident

  04-12-2017 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  Highway 99 has been closed to all northbound traffic at the 152nd Street overpass in Surrey due to an ongoing vehicle incident.
  “All Northbound traffic is blocked and traffic is being diverted at 16th Ave.,” according to an online update from Drive B.C.
  #BCHwy99 vehicle incident NB at 152nd St. overpass. All Northbound traffic is blocked and traffic is being diverted at 16th Ave. #SurreyBC #WhiteRock
  — Drive BC (@DriveBC) December 4, 2017According to News 1130 Traffic, the inci
  
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• NEB hears constitutional question on Burnaby delays to Trans Mountain project

  04-12-2017 19:33 via vancouversun.com
  CALGARY — A lawyer for Kinder Morgan Canada says political opposition to the Trans Mountain project in Burnaby has “poisoned the well” and disrupted the regulatory review process in the city.
  In a hearing at the National Energy Board, Maureen Killoran laid out arguments about how lengthy delays in permit approvals from the city have set back the $7.4-billion pipeline expansion project.
  Killoran says strong and vocal opposition by Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan to the project has
  
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• Time to wade in on the #HarryJeromeNeighbourhoodlands @DarwinConstr Review the info, attend the info session & tak… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 19:31 via twitter.com
  Time to wade in on the #HarryJeromeNeighbourhoodlands@DarwinConstr Review the info, attend the info session & tak… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Rescuers to end search for plane missing with two aboard in southeastern B.C.

  04-12-2017 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Rescuers are ending the search for a small plane with two people aboard that disappeared more than a week ago while flying over southeastern British Columbia.
  The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria says in statement that crews made the difficult decision to suspend the exhaustive operation as of Monday afternoon.
  Police have said 28-year-old pilot Dominic Neron and 31-year-old passenger Ashley Bourgeault were flying from Penticton, B.C., to Edmonton on Nov. 25 when th
  
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• Five homes evacuated as massive boulder rolls into Agassiz

  04-12-2017 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  AGASSIZ — Five homes have been evacuated in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley over concerns about the stability of a giant boulder that slid down into a residential community last month.
  The District of Kent says in a news release that 22,000-kilogram rock came from a bluff above the homes in the community of Aggassiz on Nov. 5.
  Officials say crews have been working with a geotechnical engineer to access the site, but bad weather has impeded the process.
  The district’s mayor, Jo
  
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• Attn designers & builders! Changes are coming to how small residential homes are constructed. Find out what you nee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Attn designers & builders! Changes are coming to how small residential homes are constructed. Find out what you nee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Richmond lawyer in alleged trust fund theft to host news conference

  04-12-2017 17:55 via vancouversun.com
  A Richmond lawyer at the centre of an alleged trust fund theft is set to announce what’s believed to be charges in the disappearance of nearly $8 million from her firm’s account last year.
  Lawyer Hong Guo will host a news conference in Richmond at 11 a.m. today (Monday, Dec. 4) where she says she will be sharing the results of work conducted by her lawyers hired in Canada and China, as well as charges she says have been pressed by Chinese criminal justice officials.
  According to a me
  
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• Abbotsford Santa Shuffle makes it easier to believe in miracles, love

  04-12-2017 17:54 via vancouversun.com
  ABBOTSFORD — Before we discuss the impressive $16,500 collected for Saturday’s Santa Shuffle and Elf Walk, or the Heroes for Hope at the local Salvation Army, we should talk about miracles.
  No, not the weather that miraculously improved just minutes before the 10 a.m. start of the event’s 10th anniversary in this City in the Country, but more specifically the gift of life.
  • FOR A PHOTO RECAP OF SATURDAY’S FUN RUN, click HERE
  About one-third of the way into Saturday&
  
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• Concert Announcement: Classic rock fest Rock Ambleside returns in 2018

  04-12-2017 16:34 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re shopping for a Christmas present for your classic rock-loving dad, look no further. A three-day classic rock festival is set to return to West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park in 2018 and tickets go on sale Friday.
  Rock Ambleside, presented by Rock 101, will take place from Aug. 17 to 19 at Ambleside Park in summer 2018. The festival will feature 11 classic rock bands, though the 2018 line-up has yet to be announced.
  Weekend packages and tickets will go on sale this Friday at 10
  
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• Daily Poll: Should modular housing in Marpole go ahead?

  04-12-2017 15:52 via vancouversun.com
  A planned modular housing development in Marpole has left local residents and the city facing off in court.
  The City of Vancouver is seeking a court injunction to allow construction crews to access a site at Heather and West 57th after protesters blocked the entrance to the site.
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  City versus protesters at Marpole modular-housing siteResidents and protesters say it’s not the modular housing they oppose, but the proposed mix of tenants. It would include medium- to high-needs individu
  
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• Music reviews: Nov. 25, 2017: Delfayo Marsalis, Eat Static, Schnellertollermeir and Engelbert Humperdinck

  04-12-2017 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Delfayo Marsalis: Kalamazoo (Troubadour Jass Records): Given how long trombonist Delfayo Marsalis has been bringing his distinctive New Orleans jazz to the world, it’s surprising that this is his first live album. Released on his own label, the recording of a single night during a tour in support of his excellent album, The Last Southern Gentleman, features the somewhat ridiculously good band. Delfayo’s legendary father, the sublime pianist Ellis Marsalis, bassist Reginald Veal and
  
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• A mother's plea: Save unique Richmond school that helped her 7-year-old mentally ill son

  04-12-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A unique Richmond school for children with complex special needs will close without immediate government funding, devastating parents who say their kids have nowhere else to go in B.C.
  “This is his chance. I’ve seen such a big change in him in just three months — imagine what a year can do. He said he is so proud of himself. Last year he was saying, ‘I want to kill myself,’” said Lara DePauli, whose seven-year-old son Forrest has attended the Glen Eden indepen
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Bacon docs to be provided to Johnston, Haevischer

  04-12-2017 09:39 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey Six victims families and other members of the public are still trying to figure out why a judge stayed charges against accused killer Jamie Bacon on Friday. Lawyers for his former co-accused don’t have any more insight into what led to the stay, but they will be provided with documents and other material that was part of Bacon’s case.
  Both Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston are appealing their 2014 murder convictions. Johnston’s lawyer Brock Martland said it is too soo
  
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• Rescuers working to help skier stuck out of bounds on Mt. Seymour

  04-12-2017 06:13 via vancouversun.com
  Search and rescue volunteers are working to free a skier stuck on a steep slope on Mt. Seymour Sunday evening.
  Using data from the skier’s mobile phone, rescuers were able place the skier about 750 metres down Shone Creek, on the east side of the mountain, south of Hastings Lake.
  “Not injured but stuck,” Mike Danks from North Shore Search and Rescue said. Asked to describe how steep the slope is, he called it “unpleasant.”
  The area is well outside the Mt. Seymour Re
  
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• After one more effort, search called off for hiker missing since Halloween

  04-12-2017 05:55 via vancouversun.com
  What happened to Carl Couture remains a mystery.
  Search and rescue volunteers made another effort Sunday to find the missing 24-year-old Sunday, but again returned home empty.
  “No signs of Couture,” North Shore Rescue’s Mike Danks said. 
  Couture, who had recently moved to Vancouver from Quebec and was living in the West End, was last seen Oct. 31. A search for him began a few days later after he didn’t show up for work. Surveillance from Grouse Mountain showed that C
  
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• City versus protesters at Marpole modular-housing site

  04-12-2017 04:24 via vancouversun.com
  Some Marpole residents say the City of Vancouver is using “bullying tactics” by taking protesters to court over a contentious modular-housing development meant to house the homeless.
  On Friday, the city announced it was seeking an injunction so construction crews can access the site on Heather Street and West 57th Avenue after protesters blocked the entrance to construction workers and trucks. 
  “We are disappointed that Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver are using
  
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• Judge orders release of evidence to Surrey Six killers for appeal

  04-12-2017 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  Lawyers for convicted Surrey Six killers Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston will be reviewing new evidence ordered released to them Friday to see if it will impact their clients’ appeals.
  Johnston’s lawyer Brock Martland said Sunday that some of the new material started arriving just after B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker ordered murder and conspiracy charges against Jamie Bacon to be stayed after months of secret hearings.
  Ker also issued a parallel ruling Friday, which sai
  
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• Opinion: We're still a little lonely, but want to get to know each other better

  04-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  What does it really mean to live in Metro Vancouver? Are we beautiful but lonely? Distant with expensive tastes? Hard to get to know? Harder yet to connect with?
  We thought it time to update our profile.
  In 2012, when the Vancouver Foundation first released its Connections and Engagement report, the findings described Metro Vancouver as a hard place to make friends. Our neighbourhood connections were cordial but weak. Participation levels in community life were declining.
  Mega-media attention fo
  
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• Opinion: Beyond Trump: U.S. animosity toward NAFTA runs deep

  04-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Over the last 18 months, many smart and successful people have underestimated or misread Donald Trump. On the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canadians, and particularly the people of B.C., cannot afford to do the same.
  As 2017 comes to a close, the most important public policy discussion this year — the renegotiation of NAFTA — will spill over into 2018. With the future of the most successful economic partnership in jeopardy, clarity about the Canadian and U.S. forces that have
  
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• Letters: Cooper's reporting demonstrates importance of investigative journalism

  04-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Re: ICBC to review ‘troubling’ connection, Nov. 29
  I would like to congratulate reporter Sam Cooper for the excellent research in his front-page story examining links between a Surrey car seller and various others who appear to be scamming ICBC and using illegal proceeds to launder money at a casino.
  Cooper’s example of skilled — and dogged — investigative journalism will remind readers why newspapers are especially valuable today, when a global economy has wrought
  
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• B.C. embracing medical assistance in dying

  04-12-2017 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chris Walters felt angry and cheated on the last morning of his life.
  He was just 41 years and one day old when he opted to end his life in September through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) after seven futile rounds of debilitating chemotherapy for Stage 4 colon cancer.
  Nearly a year-and-a-half after Canada amended the Criminal Code to legalize physician-assisted death, about 55 terminally ill British Columbians opt for the procedure each month, the highest per-capita rate in Canada. Whether
  
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• NDP confirm candidate for byelection in Christy Clark's old Kelowna West seat

  04-12-2017 02:55 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. NDP have confirmed Shelley Cook is the party’s candidate for the upcoming byelection in the provincial riding of Kelowna West.
  She was acclaimed as candidate Sunday at a nomination meeting in West Kelowna, which was expected after she announced her intention to seek the nomination last month.
  “I’m honoured to run again as the BC NDP candidate in my home riding of Kelowna West, and to stand with Premier John Horgan,” Cook said in a media release. “I’m
  
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• This year, be #GreenAngel. Create memories not garbage. Get gift ideas: metrovancouver.org/Christmas #NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  This year, be #GreenAngel. Create memories not garbage. Get gift ideas: metrovancouver.org/Christmas#NorthVan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Santa Claus comes to town, delights Vancouver crowds

  04-12-2017 01:54 via vancouversun.com
  Hours before the marching bands and dance troupes, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, several of their elves and some 300,000 spectators appeared for the annual Santa Claus Parade in downtown Vancouver Sunday, there was Mary Anne Mackay.
  The North Vancouver woman had taken an early SeaBus across Burrard Inlet to secure a prime seat for herself and five others along the then-empty parade route, then settled into some knitting under a blue sky while her husband shopped for Christmas gifts.
  “My two grandchi
  
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• Fish farms in BC: Occupied by protesters

  04-12-2017 01:38 via vancouversun.com
  Moe Isaac walks along the dock at Midsummer Island, past colourful protest signs under a heavy November sky.
  Rain came down like a curtain yesterday and today the clouds have an ashen glow.
  Isaac, who manages the Marine Harvest salmon farm, steps up to the edge of a pen in his work boots and worn orange life-jacket. Beyond his toes, the surface of the water breaks every few seconds — sliced by a dorsal fin or rippled by a leaping fish.
  About 53,000 Atlantic salmon swim in this 30-by-30-foo
  
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• Naughty or Nice? Holiday etiquette on… gifting and re-gifting

  04-12-2017 00:24 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the holidays and once you throw some rum in that egg nog, things can get a little messy at the family dinner table, the company Christmas party or even shopping at the mall.
  Sharon Schweitzer is an international etiquette and manners expert.
  Here’s our five-part series Naughty or Nice?, a holiday etiquette refresher with international etiquette and manners expert Sharon Schweitzer.
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  It may be better to give than to receive but that doesn’t mean it’s easier. Gi
  
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• We'd like to hear from you on the proposed Harry Jerome Neighbourhood Lands. Join us at the open house Dec 6th 5:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 00:00 via twitter.com
  We'd like to hear from you on the proposed Harry Jerome Neighbourhood Lands. Join us at the open house Dec 6th 5:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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