Blackberry season in full tilt
Blackberries! Hobos' scourge! Free fruit!
It's that time of year again, where with a bit of foresight and a few buckets you can scrounge up enough free fruit within Surrey for jelly, desserts and have enough frozen to last until next year. A delicious, easy-to-make dessert is at the end of this article.
Women in business: biggest companies owned or managed by women
Is there still a glass ceiling? Unhappily, yes. But there are a few cracks, and a few luminaries are excellent examples that show it isn't just a boys' game.
Business in Vancouver has published their Biggest B.C. Organizations Managed by Women and Biggest B.C. Businesses Owned by Women lists on September 6. They're ranked by total number of staff in B.C. You need to be a subscriber to see them. I won't provide the link here since the address will change, but you can search their site.
How did companies based in Surrey fare?
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Quibble Creek Greenway: a variety of urban paths
Greenways are still rather new in city planning. The term was coined in 1995, and the idea of planning urban pathways that don't pander to the automobile still seems fresh. Here's an overview of greenways in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenway_(landscape)].
Surrey has been developing a network of greenways. The city has an advantage over, say, Vancouver, in that there are still undeveloped right-of-ways under some of the power lines, as well as existing informal footpaths running along creeks and behind developments.