The New Westminster Early and Middle Childhood Development Committee is inviting local families to celebrate spring.
The committee is hosting a Celebration of Spring event for families with children one to 12 years of age. The event features animal mask making, gardening, face painting, a pirate ship bouncy castle, snacks and a performance by Zox of the Forest.
Celebration of Spring takes place on Sunday, April 28 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Centennial Community Centre, 65 East Sixth Ave.
Free resource bags will be offered to families who register ahead of time at info@ kidsnewwest.ca.
TICKETS WENT LIKE HOTCAKES
Well that was fast.
Tickets for Volume 2 of PechaKucha New West recently went on sale - and sold out the very same day.
The event features presentations in which people show 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Presenters at the April 26 event are: Mario Bartel, photographer; Todd Bright, executive chef at Wild Rice in New Westminster; Jonathan Cote, a New Westminster city councillor; Lindsay Ferguson, co-owner Re-Up BBQ in New Westminster; Patrick Johnstone, environmental geoscientist; Kevin McConnell, Salt Spring Coffee; Douglas Smith, executive director of the Hyack Festival Association; Julia Smith, urban farmer; Joe Wasp; earth-friendly bee locator; and Mary Wilson, West End resident.
A waiting list is available in case other tickets become available. For more information, visit www. pechakucha.org/cities/ new-westminster.
EARTH HOUR RESULTS
New Westminster has a ways to go before it's a provincial leader in Earth Day energy savings.
As part of Earth Hour, British Columbians were encouraged to turn off their lights and save energy on Saturday, March 23 from 8: 30 to 9: 30 p.m. B.C.
Hydro later announced that British Columbians saved 136 megawatt hours of electricity and reduced the provincial electricity load by 1.95 per cent during Earth Hour.
"We are now in the middle of the pack in terms of Metro Vancouver," said Coun. Jonathon Cote. "It's nice to see the community is starting to embrace the event."
Comox and Courtney topped all B.C. municipalities, saving 9.8 per cent of energy during Earth Hour. New Westminster saved 2.3 per cent, while Salmon Arm was at the bottom of the list at 0.2 per cent savings.
HAPPY 200TH!
A Sense of History Research Services is celebrating the 200th birthday of one of New Westminster's founders.
Archie and Dale Miller are once again leading public walking tours in 2013.
The tours, which cost $10 per person (cash only), are intended to offer stories and information to enhance participants' understanding of the history and heritage of the Royal City.
The April 28 tour's topic is A Chat with Colonel Moody - in honour of Richard Clement Moody, who was colonel of the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers that was stationed in the Colony of British Columbia.
"Moody and the men of the corps worked from their camp in today's Sapperton area from 1859 to 1863 and their legacy still remains," stated in a press release about the cemetery tour. "This new cemetery tour's unique format will introduce a number of citizens from the Royal City of 1859 to 1863 who very likely knew the colonel."
The tour is being held on Sunday, April 28 starting at 1: 30 p.m. near the Fraser Cemetery office at 100 Richmond St. Call 604526-6113 or email tours@ senseofhistory.com.
