SURREY – Surrey-Green Timbers MLA Rachna Singh and Surrey-Panorama MLA Jinny Sims welcome three new playgrounds for students in Surrey, thanks to $285,000 in provincial funding announced by the Minister of Education today. “Parents should not have to take on …
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