{"id":890694,"date":"2026-09-10T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/890694\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:38:10","slug":"letter-surrey-must-preserve-crescent-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/890694\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey must preserve Crescent Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LETTER: Surrey must preserve Crescent Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:00 am Thursday, September 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor,<\/p>\n<p>I respectfully disagree with Rob Mumford\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/08\/22\/letter-surrey-doesnt-need-a-little-malibu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Surrey doesn\u2019t need a little Malibu<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I believe we who live in high-density housing areas, in small condos with views of our neighbour\u2019s balcony, need a place with space.<\/p>\n<p>Crescent Beach is a place to take a deep breath and let your shoulders drop. A place where you can walk the beach most days without fighting crowds. A place that feels like stepping back in time. We need to preserve it for all of our mental health.<\/p>\n<p>I already feel for the homeowners there who are inundated by traffic and picnickers every weekend. But let\u2019s not increase that by adding more housing.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Shareski, White Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey must preserve Crescent Beach Published 7:00 am Thursday, September 10, 2026 Editor, I respectfully disagree with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-890694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}