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OUR VIEW: The top 10 things we hope for in 2017

What do you hope for in 2017? Peace, prosperity – a house you can afford with enough bedrooms so kids don’t have to sleep in the kitchen? What we hope for in the new year, of course, all depends on our wishes and dreams for the future.

What do you hope for in 2017?

Peace, prosperity – a house you can afford with enough bedrooms so kids don’t have to sleep in the kitchen?

What we hope for in the new year, of course, all depends on our wishes and dreams for the future. Here at New Westminster’s Hometown Newspaper, we have some of our own modest wishes for 2017.

Yes, they’re probably influenced by some of our wishes that fell woefully short in 2016, but you can’t give up hope, particularly in today’s world.

We hope in 2017:

1. That we will see not just plans for the new high school, but also shovels in the ground – and no bones sticking out.

2. To live long enough to see Ewen Avenue in Queensborough finished – we swear we’ve seen the same section of road dug up more times than Stonehenge.

3. The Surrey Fraser docks dump their coal facility plan because, honestly, by the time they do build it, that coal will be diamonds.

4. Someone will have figured out how to keep icebergs from dropping on cars from the supports on the Alex Fraser and Port Mann bridges. We think the government is just stalling until climate change kicks in and the Fraser River is like the Florida everglades.

5. Christy Clark saw the Ghost of Poor Children Past over Christmas and actually creates a real plan for keeping B.C.’s kids out of poverty.

6. The city revisits (or just visits for that matter) our dream of seeing the world’s largest ferris wheel built at Pier Park. (Well, it’s not that wild – who would have imagined a beach on pilings there five years ago?)

7.  BenBen wins the lottery and every sad cat in the city gets his or her very own ‘Forever Home.’

8. The Sixth Street parklet is put on wheels so it can be rotated around the city so other neighbourhoods can also wake up to the cheerful sounds of folks arguing over beer bottles at 5 a.m.

9. That people who spend their precious life trolling other people on Facebook discover the universe is just one big computer and the big IT guy in the sky is keeping track of all those nasty, petty and mean comments.

And, finally,

10. We hope real news continues to have real value in our very real city because, if it doesn’t, we’re just going to have to start making a whole lot of stuff up – and Martian cat videos will be our top priority.