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August 2008
Surrey Foundation Grant
The Surrey Foundation provided a grant of $7,500 for the FVHRS Community Outreach and Public Education programme. This grant will help us continue the newspaper advertisements and the production of the newsletter.
Other support for FVHRS from this grant will continue our appearance at many local events. This summer we have attended:
- The Canada Day event at Cloverdale, and the Sprit 150 Steam train
- Picnic in the park; Valtac announcement of their new communications programme and trailer based graphics. See the Valtac site for more news.
- The Cloverdale Blueberry Festival
- Our ongoing Open House events.
March 2008
City of Surrey grant - part two
The City of Surrey completed the truck refurbishment grant with a additional cheque for $75,000. This brings the total grant to $150,000 which will allow the trucks for BCER 1225 to be completely refurbished. The trucks have been removed from under 1225 and are off-site. Rewiring work continues on the car while the trucks are away.
November, 2007
City of Surrey - truck refurbishment grant approved.
Surrey City Council recently approved a grant request by the FVHRS for $150,000 towards the refurbishment of the BCER 1225 trucks. A cheque for $75,000 was presented by Councillor Judy Higginbotham at the 2nd annual Volunteer's Appreciation Dinner. A further $75,000 will be presented next year to complete the work. The Volunteer's Appreciation Dinner was held at the local New York, New York restaurant, across the street from the FVHRS Sullivan Car barn.
This substantial grant is the latest demonstration of the ongoing support by the City of Surrey for the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society’s plans of restoring BCER 1225 and running it on the Surrey section of the original Fraser Valley line for heritage tourism purposes. The FVHRS was formed in 2001 after encouragement, and a financial kick-start from Jim Wallace (deceased), in 1996 of the Surrey Heritage Advisory Commission to undertake a feasibility study. The Rehabilitation of BCER 1225 is 50% complete with just over 5000 hours in volunteer time already donated by a dedicated group of skilled FVHRS members. The rehabilitation work is being coordinated by the FVHRS vice-chair, Robert Ashton. The goal is to have the rehabilitation complete by the end of 2009.
Car club visit
October, 2007
FVHRS Co-chair hosted the Morgan Owners Group Northwest at an evening showing of the Sullivan Car barn.
Last Open House for the season - well attended with over 79 rides on the speeder.