Cloverdale Chamber holds first of 7 civic slate \u2018open houses\u2019<\/p>\n
Published 8:30 am Saturday, September 12, 2026<\/p>\n
The Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce is hosting a series of seven civic-slate \u201copen houses.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first two were held Sept. 9 (Imagine Surrey) and Sept. 11 (Safe Surrey Coalition).<\/p>\n
Scott Wheatley, the executive director of the Cloverdale Chamber, said the first two events went very well. He told the Cloverdale Reporter the open houses are \u201cnonpartisan engagement opportunities\u201d for voters. He said the platform was chosen to give voters in Cloverdale, Clayton, and Campbell Heights an informal chance to hear from civic slates on issues relevant to East Surrey.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople seemed to enjoy the format,\u201d Wheatley said. \u201cEveryone was very respectful and everyone seemed to be able to ask the questions they wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted the informal setting was used to encourage just such interaction. He wanted a way for voters to connect with the politicians on a deeper level than in the traditional all-candidate meeting setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople like the format because it was an easy to interact. It was just a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said several dozen attended the first session at the Chamber office. Based on registrations, he expects that trend to continue through the remaining five meetings.<\/p>\n
Wheatley explained that there\u2019s no real agenda for each night, just a mix-and-mingle atmosphere.<\/p>\n
He said the open-house sessions include one-minute introductions from each candidate, a short discussion featuring Chamber-selected questions, and informal conversation and networking afterward.<\/p>\n
OPEN HOUSES
Sept. 14, Surrey Now (Mayoral candidate: Troy Van Vliet)
Sept. 15, Surrey Connect (Mayoral candidate: Brenda Locke)
Sept. 17, Surrey First (Mayoral candidate: Linda Annis)
Sept. 18, Conservative Party of Surrey (Mayoral candidate: Honveer Singh Randhawa)
Sept. 21, New Surrey+ (Mayoral candidate: Igal Ammons II)<\/p>\n
COMPLETED
Sept. 9, Imagine Surrey (Mayoral candidate: Mike Starchuk)
Sept. 11, Safe Surrey Coalition (Mayoral candidate: Doug McCallum)<\/p>\n
All open-house meetings run from 5 \u2013 7 p.m. at the Chamber office.<\/p>\n
The Chamber is asking people to pre-register for the open houses. This can be done by visiting cloverdalechamber.ca or by emailing info@cloverdalechamber.ca.<\/p>\n
For more info, visit cloverdalechamber.ca.<\/p>\n
For info on how and where to vote, visit surrey.ca.<\/p>\n
The Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce is located at 5738 176th Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cloverdale Chamber holds first of 7 civic slate \u2018open houses\u2019 Published 8:30 am Saturday, September 12, 2026 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-893209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893209","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=893209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}