Later Years
Students from the school were officially welcomed when they attended a meeting of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly on February 9, 1984.
The school was officially designated a City of Surrey Heritage Site on December 4, 2000.
The school was considered for closure in January 2003. A reason given was the claim that it was in poor condition. The threat of closure generated significant parental concern. On February 14, 2003, MLA Kevin Falcon, responding to the Throne speech, argued that the school should remain open. However, in June 2006 the school was shut down and replaced by Pacific Heights Elementary School. The new school was officially opened on November 15, 2006.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)