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Video & Media - Waterfront Park, Not Waterfront Freeway says Sunbury Neighbourhood Association

05/26/10

02:50:15 pm, by edoherty

, 249 words

Categories: Gateway, Livable Region, Environment, South Fraser Perimeter Road

Video & Media - Waterfront Park, Not Waterfront Freeway says Sunbury Neighbourhood Association

On May 24, Victoria Day, the Sunbury Neighbourhood Association held a garden party on the site of a potential waterfront park, or a waterfront freeway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAB5dUFN91c

The event attracted considerable media attention, including a CKNW radio story.

Gateway Closes Door on Neighbourhood

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

By Elvis Glazier - While many people fled the Lower Mainland for the Victoria Day long weekend a group of concerned citizens took to the streets of Delta to raise awareness about the Gateway Project and the devastation the South Fraser Perimeter Road is having on the riverfront community of Sunbury. The Sunbury Neighbourhood Association (SNA)organized a Victoria Day tea party to let the government know that they were, "not amused."

Full text at http://www.deltafreepress.com/2010/05/gateway-closes-door-on-neighbourhood.html

Metro Vancouver freeway expansion gets ongoing opposition
May 25, 11:12 AM Vancouver Environmental News Examiner Bev Yaworski

Metro Vancouver residents gathered on the beautiful banks of the Fraser River in Delta on Victoria Day May 24th to express opposition to a proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road. (SFPR).

Organized by the Sunbury Neighbourhood Association as a Garden Party and Paint-In, citizens painted banners, waved to passing motorists and shared their personal stories of housing demolitions and questionable government actions on the freeway project.

Full text at http://www.examiner.com/x-30428-Vancouver-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2010m5d25-Opposition-to-Metro-Vancouver-freeway-expansion-continues-to-grow

The media release is at:
http://www.sunburyneighbourhood.ca/PressReleaseMay242010.pdf

Photos at:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/ejbaatz/VictoriaDayGardenParty#

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