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Faces of the Community in You(th) project (left to right): top row, Lisa Xie, Simon Meng, Vicky Li, Celina Qu, Ruby Liu; second row, Adelina Chen, Max Li, Vicky Wei, Johnson Wu, Kathy Xu; third row, Wendy Gong, Ethan Wang, Briana Chen, Olivia Lu, Alan Deng; fourth row, Jennifer Wang, Tim Wang, Queenie Zheng, Frank Li, Flora Li. (Contributed)

Semiahmoo Peninsula youth project preserves COVID-era history

Students collaborate with White Rock Museum and Archives

 

Bill Merilees, a retired B.C. Parks regional information officer, collected mollusk shells from B.C. and Washington state coastlines for 50 years and has donated his 140,000-specimen collection to University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

VIDEO: B.C. man donates 140,000 mollusk specimens to biodiversity museum

UBC’s Beaty museum grateful for Bill Merilees’s historical record of B.C. marine biodiversity

 

White Rock’s pier as it appeared in 1936.(White Rock Museum Archives photo)

White Rock Pier celebrated in museum exhibit

Show, on until Sept. 5, showcases iconic landmark’s 100-plus-year history

 

Bruno Zappone, then the oldest volunteer at the B.C. Vintage Truck Museum, receives a 2020 Clovie for “Volunteer of the Year” from the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 6, 2020. Zappone passed away June 22 at the age of 95. (Image via Facebook)

Pillar of Cloverdale community passes away

Bruno Zappone was 95

Bruno Zappone, then the oldest volunteer at the B.C. Vintage Truck Museum, receives a 2020 Clovie for “Volunteer of the Year” from the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 6, 2020. Zappone passed away June 22 at the age of 95. (Image via Facebook)
COVID-19 townhall

White Rock COVID Town Hall hears from community organizations

More hope expressed in planning for future events

COVID-19 townhall
Visitors tour the BC Vintage Truck Museum in Cloverdale at the 2018 Surrey Doors Open. (Samantha Anderson)

Cloverdale’s truck museum to reopen

B.C. Vintage Truck Museum set to open its doors June 19

Visitors tour the BC Vintage Truck Museum in Cloverdale at the 2018 Surrey Doors Open. (Samantha Anderson)
Old trucks are seen in the yard at the B.C. Vintage Truck Museum in Cloverdale June 14, 2021. The Museum is reopening June 19 after a seven-month COVID closure. (Photo: Malin Jordan)

Cloverdale’s truck museum to reopen

B.C. Vintage Truck Museum set to open its doors June 19

Old trucks are seen in the yard at the B.C. Vintage Truck Museum in Cloverdale June 14, 2021. The Museum is reopening June 19 after a seven-month COVID closure. (Photo: Malin Jordan)
Tavisha Kochhar sews masks for her fundraising campaign, July 25, 2020. (Aziz Ladha photo)

PHOTOS: Call for Surrey COVID-19 submissions tops 300

Collection ‘highlights remarkable ingenuity, resilience, spirit’ during pandemic

Tavisha Kochhar sews masks for her fundraising campaign, July 25, 2020. (Aziz Ladha photo)
City of White Rock Museum and Archives presents two new shows this month. (File photo)

Two new exhibits set to open at White Rock museum

White Rock-inspired art and ‘everyday’ objects featured in concurrent shows

City of White Rock Museum and Archives presents two new shows this month. (File photo)
Amy Walker and Sharon Kallis work to install part of the museum’s new exhibit. (City of Surrey photo)

Textile exhibit ‘Nature’s Clothesline’ set to open at Museum of Surrey

Cloverdale display features work from six textile artists

Amy Walker and Sharon Kallis work to install part of the museum’s new exhibit. (City of Surrey photo)
White Rock Museum’s new exhibit includes this photo of White Rock residents Belle Hood and Earl Barge during the First World War. (White Rock Museum & Archives photo)

White Rock Museum and Archives reopens with COVID-19 protocols in place

First show recalls residents’ involvement in two world wars

White Rock Museum’s new exhibit includes this photo of White Rock residents Belle Hood and Earl Barge during the First World War. (White Rock Museum & Archives photo)
BC Vintage Truck Museum president Anna Dean drives a classic truck called the “Pink Lady.” Dean recently announced the truck museum would reopen to the public July 25. (Black Press Media file photo)

Cloverdale’s truck museum to reopen

BC Vintage Truck Museum set to open to public July 25

BC Vintage Truck Museum president Anna Dean drives a classic truck called the “Pink Lady.” Dean recently announced the truck museum would reopen to the public July 25. (Black Press Media file photo)
Joshua and Weyla Roy display some of the many letters they have from serial killers like Robert Pickton and Dennis Rader, the BTK killer. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)

Ted Bundy to Robert Pickton: B.C. couple houses private ‘murderabilia’ collection

Couple hopes to have a museum one day

Joshua and Weyla Roy display some of the many letters they have from serial killers like Robert Pickton and Dennis Rader, the BTK killer. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)
Ken Lane, former director of the Royal London Wax Museum, pours tea for Queen Victoria in his Saanich home. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)

Royals, Elvis, Captain Cook: Hundreds of wax figures find new life in B.C. man’s home

Former director of Victoria’s Royal London Wax Museum still hopes to revive wax figure tourism

Ken Lane, former director of the Royal London Wax Museum, pours tea for Queen Victoria in his Saanich home. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)
White Rock Museum & Archives curator Charlene Garvey talks about the museum’s newest exhibit, Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in B.C. (Tracy Holmes photo)

White Rock exhibit explores diversity of First Nations languages in B.C.

Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in B.C. continues through April 28

White Rock Museum & Archives curator Charlene Garvey talks about the museum’s newest exhibit, Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in B.C. (Tracy Holmes photo)
The proposed location of the sculpture. (City of Surrey)

City seeks artist bids on $180K sculpture project for new Museum of Surrey campus

Surrey is looking to create an illuminated sculpture for the upcoming heritage campus

The proposed location of the sculpture. (City of Surrey)
VIDEO: Get a sneak peek at the newly renovated BC Vintage Truck Museum

VIDEO: Get a sneak peek at the newly renovated BC Vintage Truck Museum

Volunteers have been working around the clock to finish the $50,000 renovation of Cloverdale museum

VIDEO: Get a sneak peek at the newly renovated BC Vintage Truck Museum
B.C. Vintage Truck Museum gives a truck full of clothes to wildfire evacuees

B.C. Vintage Truck Museum gives a truck full of clothes to wildfire evacuees

‘It’s all about being a good neighbour’: museum supports nearby Cloverdale evacuation centre

B.C. Vintage Truck Museum gives a truck full of clothes to wildfire evacuees