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 Elect: Liz Walker

Liz Walker
Liz was born and raised in Vancouver. She attended UBC, taking Chemistry and Biology classes. These studies later enabled her to find a job with BC Hydro’s Research and Development Laboratories as a Chemical Technician. Liz soon followed her job to Surrey and moved to Newton in 1983. Leaving her job in 1990, she was able to stay at home with her children and volunteer in the community (in 2004 she received a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for her volunteer efforts).
 
She started with environmental activism, helping form the Surrey Chapter of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, chairing the Education Committee of the White Rock and Surrey Naturalists and serving on the Board of Surrey Environmental Partners. These activities have taught her about working to consensus to solve problems, about Surrey’s natural assets and about introducing the public, especially children, to the natural environment around them.

When her children started school she decided that she should also help out at school so she joined the Parent Advisory Councils of the schools her children attended. Being an active PAC member has included fundraising and budget committees, organizing theatre volunteers, greening the school ground, joining the RCMP Bullying Resistance and Violence Education program, experience with Safe Schools, Road Safety and Block Watch, serving on the District Parent Advisory Council and its Board  and at last but not least, campaigning against the installation of Cell Towers on or near our schools. Liz has also voiced concerns over changes in the community for the past several years that have led to an increased presence of transients, crime attractors/generators and drug dealing. With other members of their informal neighbourhood group, Concerned Residents of Newton in Committee she attends meetings and workshops on community building. The neighbourhood group is a member of the Surrey Association of Sustainable Communities. Liz continues to with other members of the community to try to regain some of the community strengths that have been lessened due to the increasing challenges.

 

 

 Newton-North Delta
Green Parties around the world share common values as expressed in the Charter of the Global Greens. The policies of the Green Party of Canada are based on six fundamental principles: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Participatory Democracy, Non-Violence, Sustainability, and Respect for Diversity.

Nowhere are these principals more important than in the federal riding of Newton-North Delta. Join us, and help ensure that this beautiful, diverse, multi-cultural region remains one of the most liveable in the world, and becomes a model for sustainable practices everywhere.

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