Cloverdale Legion Open House on Saturday, June 22, 2013

I've noticed signs up in some of the downtown Cloverdale's merchant's windows that the Cloverdale Legion is having an open house on Saturday, June 22, 2013 from 9am to 5pm.

Free breakfast from 9am to 11am. The last time they did a free breakfast it was pancakes only, plus coffee, tea, and an orange juice drink.

At lunch they are barbequing hot dogs and coffee, tea, and orange juice drink will be available.

They are having a display of military vehicles, several vehicles are shown on the flyers such as tanks, but I'm not sure what will be there. They are also planning to crush cars, so maybe there will be a tank there. Play it safe and park your car somewhere far away and walk to the Legion!
   
The Legion is located at 17567 57th Avenue.

Cloverdale getting pre-rodeo spruce up

Its that time of year when Cloverdale gets some attention in preparation for the May long weekend when the rodeo comes to town. The City of Surrey has sent maintenance to mow the grass growing alongside the city boulevards on the Cloverdale Bypass and 57th Avenue along the block where the Legion is and the old Cloverdale Mall parking lot. Plus the big grassy area on 58th and the bypass, closing in on where the ambulance station is has been mowed. It looks like the maintenance crew isn't doing anything more on 57th Avenue alongside the old Cloverdale Mall parking lot. They mowed/trimmed the grass between the sidewalk and the street but they didn't clean up the broken glass on the sidewalk. Also the grass and juniper bushes between the sidewalk and the parking lot only got one swipe with a lawnmower. It looks pretty messy.

Today I see the street sweeper making the rounds of Cloverdale streets. Then that'll be it for another year!

So far the hanging plants haven't showed up on 176th Street. It'll be nice if they're up in time for the rodeo. Fortunately so far the water hasn't been turned on, a problem they had before, which meant they either had to put some hanging plants up to be watered or turn the automatic timer off because the only thing being watered was the sidewalk and any unfortunate pedestrians who may have been standing nearby!

Cloverdale's Blueberry Festival 2010

Sorry to say I didn't take in too much of today's blueberry festivities in Cloverdale. Can thank the too hot, hot weather for that!

We did start the day at the Legion for blueberry pancakes. Yummy!

Then Kerry had to leave and I waited at home for my father and his girlfriend to arrive so they could see what's happening in Cloverdale today. We drove back to the parking lot near the Legion and fortunately there were still a couple of spots available so we managed to park fairly near to 176th Street. A quick walk down there to check out the cars. There were some older cars and trucks but many were newer vehicles and hot rods. We didn't see the blueberry pie eating contests nor the entertainers or vendors. Basically once up the street and back around 11am and called it quits due to the heat.

I managed to take a few photos of some cars.

I can say I'm sure glad I'm not at the Abbotsford Airshow in this weather with the hot sun beating down on the pavement.