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Where You Can Vacation And Be Home The Same Day

 

 

 

Did You Remember?

Check Your Clocks while you were sleeping our clocks "sprung forward"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Funnies

 

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Recipe of the Week

Easy Chicken Pie {with Bacon & Puff Pastry}

Ingredients

For the chicken pie filling:

  • 1 tbsp Oil See notes

  • 4  Skinless, boneless chicken breasts About 650g

  • 200 g Smoked bacon See notes

  • 1 Onion See notes

  • 3 Celery sticks See notes

  • 3 Carrots See notes

  • 2 tsp Thyme See notes

  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

  • 75 g Plain flour

  • 300 ml Chicken stock Made from a cube is fine

  • 300 ml Milk See notes

For the pie:

  • 320 g Puff pastry sheet See notes

  • 1 Egg Beaten

Instructions

  • Heat your oil in a large frying pan or saucepan and add the chicken and bacon. Cook for about 5-10 minutes until just starting to turn brown.

  • Add in the vegetables and cook for a further 5 minutes until they start to soften.

  • Add the flour and thyme and stir through everything, cook for 5 minutes. 

  • Gradually add the stock and milk to the vegetable and flour mix, stirring until the sauce is smooth. Leave to bubble away and thicken for about 10 minutes.

  • Spoon into a pie dish and leave to cool for at least 30 minutes if you have time.

  • Smooth the pastry over the top of the filling.

  • Decorate the pie with cut out shapes if you feel that way inclined and brush with the beaten egg.

  • When you are ready to bake the pie, preheat the oven to 220℃ fan/425F, 240℃/475F or Gas Mark 9 and bake for about 30 minutes until the filling is hot throughout and the pastry is crisp and golden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local News

March 06, 2026

I attended today's (Thursday) Black Balloon Day memorial at Miramar Plaza organized by Tides of Change - South Surrey/White Rock Community Action Team.

Family and friends gathered to remember loved ones lost to the opioid crisis.

Now in its tenth year, this healthcare crisis shows no sign of ending.

An average of six BC residents a day are lost to accidental overdoses, many of them young men in trades.

 

March 05, 2026

White Rock Council Monday Agenda

All meetings of council are currently held in the White Rock Community Centre in Uptown White Rock/Russell Avenue

3:00 p.m. - IN CAMERA Closed to the public

Regular Council Meeting  4:00 p.m. +The full agenda (click here)

Gallery Room, White Rock Community Centre Council Chambers

15154 Russell Ave, White Rock

*Live Streaming/Telecast: Please note that all Committees, Task Forces, Council Meetings, and Public Hearings held in the Council Chamber are being recorded and broadcasted as well 

 

The Hardest Working Building in White Rock

In 1922 the Surrey Police department petitioned Surrey Council to build a holding cell and Police substation in White Rock. The result was a building at the foot of the pier that would end up being one of the most diversely used buildings in White Rock.

In the early 1930s the White Rock Library moved into the building and shared it with the police department until 1951. In the early 1960s the Chamber of Commerce took over the building and it became a tourist information centre as well as a gallery used by the local Council of Women and the White Rock Painting and Sketch Club. In 1980 a new public washroom was built on the site.

In its 55 years it had been a jail, morgue, library, bathroom, meeting hall, tourist centre, and art gallery.

Quite a career for such a humble little building!

The quaint police jail and library at the foot of the pier in the early 1930s

In its final version as the Chamber of Commerce Tourist Information centre the local Council of Women, and the White Rock Painting and Sketch Club used the building extensively.

 

 

March 4, 2026

Coldest Night Of The Year - The Numbers Are In

Former White Rock Mayor DARRYL WALKER joins current White Rock councillors TREVEYLAN/MANNING/BAINS

White Rock consistently has been in the Top 3 fundraising walks across Canada.

SOURCES Coldest Night Of The Year annual fundraising walk was a huge success on the weekend.

When the donations were counted the event raised over $215,000.00 with donations still coming in.

The White Rock Baptist Church came in with the top fundraising team of $48,000.00 while ROSE BLOCK was the largest single walk group with a donation of $9,000.00

 

Surrey Spring Clean Up / Free Large Item Pickup Program

Get large items, including furniture, stoves and mattresses, picked up for free.

Eligibility & annual limits

  • Households with City waste collection: up to 6 items per year.

  • Households with registered secondary suites: up to 8 items per year.

  • The item count resets to zero each year, and unused pickups cannot be carried over.

  • Items placed at curbside without a scheduled pickup may be considered illegally dumped and are subject to fines.

  • The service is included in your garbage utility.

    (Book your pick up here)

     

 

Lighting Up The Night


Tuesday March 03, 2026

We Heard You

Special Council Meeting And Public Hearing For Official Community Plan Bylaw

A Special Council meeting and Public Hearing was held last afternoon at our community centre/council chambers  for Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 2511.

A number of members of the public took the time to appear in person or to submit letters to the city reflecting their visions for the future development of White Rock.

Letters submitted in advance 27

4 in favour of OCP as presented

23 against

Speakers last evening 15

2 in favour

13 against the OCP as presented

TOTALS

6 in favour

36 against adopting the OCP as presented

Visit: Official Community Plan Update 2025 | Talk White Rock

Following the PUBLIC HEARING White Rock council reconvened the meeting of council to either adopt the presented Official Community Plan, or to defer a decision.

Councillor TREVEYLAN put forward a motion to defer the decision until the next regular council meeting which will be on Monday March 8.

The vote was supported unanimously.

The meeting ended with staff reminding council they could not receive any new information now that the decision had been deferred.

 

 

City of Surrey  Plant A Tree Campaign

UPDATE March 05, 2026 City of Surrey

If you missed out on this one, the next tree sale will be going live on April 28 at 9am! Visit surrey.ca/treesale for more information.

Choose from a variety of trees including fruit trees, magnolias, and dogwoods.

Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase quality trees for only $20/tree and to help grow Surrey’s urban forest.

For a full list of trees and purchasing info, visit surrey.ca/treesale

 

February 28, 2026

Town Hall On Addiction/Homelessness

Local MLA Trevor Halford hosted a town hall meeting last evening on mental health problems, addictions and housing supports in our community. Halford was joined by fellow MLA Claire Rattée who revealed her own personal challenges of being homeless on the downtown east-side. Rattée has made the long journey to the hallowed halls of the Legislature in Victoria from a very desperate life. She spoke from personal experience.

It was a full house at the ELKS HALLL on George street. A wide variety of speakers had comments and questions about supportive housing, mental health services, wrap around care and the challenges people are facing

(click here for past news stories)

 

 

 

 

 

Night Owl

 

 

(check out all the music around town - click here)

 

 

Video of the Day

 

Canadian rock n royal royalty THE GUESS WHO is back together and headed out on a North American Tour.

Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 ; Where: Freedom Mobile Arch at The PNE — 2901 E. Hastings St.

 

 

Thought For The Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday’s SoulFull Session LIVE / Live From South Surrey

Today we will be opening the month with a live conversation called:

kindness in a fractured world

We’ll explore questions like:

Where is kindness still alive in the world?
What weakens it?
What supports it?
And what might it look like to practice a form of kindness that is thoughtful, courageous, and awake?

If this month’s theme is stirring something in you, I’d love to have you there.

Click to JOIN US.

 

 

Earl Marriott Pow Wow - On Now

 

 

We have tickets available for Sunday's Surrey Eagles game / South Surrey Arena

Game Time 4 p.m.

Drop by the tasting room / lounge on Russell Avenue in White Rock and ask at the bar if you want to go.

As always, these are on a first come, first served basis.

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow In THE SUN

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