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=__Daniel Champagne__ Essential information of the article= Headline of the article: Olympic organizers improve cauldron access, fight back against media reports Name of publication: Vancouver Sun [] Date: February 17th 2010 Scope: Local News Location: Vancouver B.C. Topic: Vancouver Olympics

=Summary of the article= Organizers moved wednesday to find out about all the criticism of the Vancouver 2010 winter games. Everything is going wrong from malfunctioning ice-making machines to the lack of snow on Cypress Mountain. The Vancouver organizing committee insisted that everything was going well and that they fixed problems as they occured. On wednesday morning there was some improvement. Organizers had shifted the fence so that it was closer to the cauldron, opened an eye level gap and they also put a spectating area on a rooftop nearby the cauldron.The changes Vanoc made overnight to the security fencing around the cauldron met with mixed reaction from the thousands of people who came down to see it at Jack Poole Plaza. =Reaction to the article= In my opinion this article is 50% true. So far Vancouver has not done a good job with hosting the 2010 olympics. For the visitors of the world, Vancouver has not been showing a very good first impression. There has been a lot of problems from the cauldron not raising at the very beginning to being just disorganised with some of the events. They pay fair amount of money to go see an olympic game so why not make it perfect? and make sure everything is organised and working properly. Having said that not everything is negative they have a lot of entertainment going on for the visitors of the city and the events are still very entertaining. Canada has also won two gold medals already which is great for the Canadian fans.

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Headline of the article: Surrey to spend $1.4M on more school portables Name of publication: Surrey Leader www.bclocalnews.com Date: February 15 2010 Scope: Surrey City Location: Surrey, British Columbia topic: Education

**Summary of article**
Surrey board of education Signed a contract of 1.4 million dollars to go towards 20 new portables to accommodate new students entering school the coming semester. The provincial government has not provided building funding for surrey since 2005/2006 the money now must be taken from surrey's general revenue funding. There are 220 portables in use this school year an enrollment has gone up by 1200 more students. The board now has to put about 2 million towards portables because the provincial government has failed to put forth the extra money required for class room space. Terry Allen has requested surrey staff to file a report on how long portables have been there, lack of capital funding etc. The report is due back February 25 2010 and information is supposed to be shipped off to to provincial ministry of education.

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I found this article very interesting, I've always wondered though why surrey has so many portables and why they don't just expand the schools. The population in Canada will only keep increasing and areas in surrey are drastically growing. I don't quite understand how the provincial government could not put in any money for new class room space. I think the government should give schools extra building money every year so that the schools can budget out the money and figure out what needs to be done for there school.

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http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/84393657.html

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Headline of the article: On guard for sport. Name of publication: www.livetospin.com Date: February 17 2010 Scope: Surrey City Location: surrey BC topic: Sport/education

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=== ** The term 'Color Guard' is one that very few people in Canada are familiar with, but it is a highly recognized sport in the United States (and therefore, only the U.S. spelling of color is recognized in the sport). ** ===

** Due to the lack of awareness and support needed to promote this sport in BC and Canada we decided to make a documentary about the team that will help educate people about this beautiful sport. **
=== Live To Spin is a documentary, filmed in high definition, revolving around the true drama, competition, and struggle that one Canadian Color Guard team has undergone while competing against the U.S. teams. Color Guard, also known as Winter Guard or Sport of the Arts, is an exciting world of performance and entertainment; a place where pageantry involves an array of equipment, movement, and skill. ===

**Reaction to the** **article:**
===I think that this is an amazing sport/art and everyone should have the oppurtunity to see this or experience it. Like in America all highschools have colorguard team and that counts as credits for them throughout there highschool years. Thats so cool for me. I can say i honestly love this. I am part of this team and its very time consuming but i think its all worth it in the end!!=== I hope you enjoy this little video. it is of our 2009 season we went to the Dayton Ohio champioships and made it to finals :) and then came 14th out of 68 groups!

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