NEWS RELEASE about Environment posted on May 25, 2010 by edoherty
Victoria Day Garden Party and Paint-In
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release - May 24, 2010
Victoria Day Garden Party and Paint-In
The Sunbury Neighbourhood Association and friends celebrated Queen Victoria’s Birthday with people from across the Lower Mainland by painting banners and enjoying a potential new neighbourhood park in North Delta.
The event drew attention to what is happening in the Sunbury Community and provided a creative outlet for residents to show they are “not amused” with Gateway’s SFPR project. “The government claims they do not have money for teachers, seniors, health care or public transit,” says Richelle Giberson, a Sunbury Neighbourhood Association member, “yet they plan to spend an estimated 1.3 billion dollars on a waterfront freeway. This really makes me question what our government’s priorities are.”
“This beautiful and historic waterfront site is our local frontline in the struggle to stop global warming. Building a new four lane freeway when transit projects are being delayed for lack of funding violates the Liberals’ legislated commitment to reduce greenhouse gases 33 per cent by 2020. Making a waterfront park in our neighbourhood instead of a waterfront freeway is our way of thinking globally and acting locally,” says Sunbury Neighbourhood Association member Ernie Baatz.
Photos of this event available at:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/ejbaatz/VictoriaDayGardenParty#
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For more information please contact:
Ernie Baatz, info@sunburyneighbourhood.ca
Richelle Giberson, 604 585 1142
www.sunburyneighbourhood.ca
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