Even since I was a little girl I remember radio controlled aircraft flying around Fry's Corner, at 176th Street and the Fraser Highway. Sometimes I'd think it was a real plane. Then my parents explained to me that no one was sitting inside the planes. Instead someone was on the ground holding a remote control box and controlling where the plane flew.
Even when I got older and started driving, whenever I saw the little planes flying around I used to hope for a red light at the Fraser Highway so we could stop and watch them.
But progress happens and the Fraser Highway is being extended and the lease ran out for the flight club and the planes flew for the last time on June 21.
Currently they're looking for a new home and hoping to remain in Surrey.
Fry's Corner will never be the same. I know it'll be hard to break the habit of glancing to the sky everytime I drive past hoping to catch a glimpse of a model airplane doing its maneouvers.
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