A New West musicians is stoked about his newest musical endeavour.
Mike Guild, a member of The Beladeans, is also involved with a new band, The Country Club Hustlers. They’ll be playing their first show and opening up for The Highsiders on Saturday, Nov. 28 at the Heritage Grill. So what can folks expect?
“The audience can expect a night of hillbilly/rockabilly ala Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and the Sun Records classics from The Highsiders. And old-time country ala Ray Price, George Jones and Merle Haggard played loud and electric with some originals thrown into the mix from The Country Club Hustlers,” he wrote in an email to the Record. “Expect a night filled with good music, dancing and good strong drinks!”
The show starts at 8 p.m. and goes to midnight at 447 Columbia St. It’s free and all ages are welcome.
New West resident to sit on healthcare foundation board
A Royal City resident is among those who will be serving on the Queen’s Park Healthcare Foundation’s board for 2015/16.
Jason Lesage is among the directors who were recently elected to the Queen’s Park Healthcare Foundation’s new board at its recent annual general meeting. Other board members include, Mehul Gandi (chair), Mandeep Deol, Harry Bloy (vice-chair), Garth Evans (secretary), Lotus Chung, Ryan Sahota (treasurer) and Sonny Johal.
Safety for students
WorkSafe B.C. is reaching out to students around B.C. to help them avoid workplace accidents.
A variety of speakers are visiting schools across the province to help encourage kids not to end up like them. Recently, Mark Johnson and Michael Lovett told their stories to about 200 New Westminster Secondary School students in a number of Grade 10 classes over a number of days earlier this month.
Eight years ago, Johnson had only been working at a sawmill for nine months when he nearly died in a workplace incident. He was cleaning out a wood chipper when his left arm became trapped in the heavy machinery; while Johnson didn’t lose his arm, he’s been left with limited wrist and shoulder function.
“No amount of work is worth losing a limb, or even a finger,” Johnson said. “I want people to think about how their family would react if they didn’t come home.”
Lovett told NWSS students about the sawmill accident that resulted in having part of his leg amputated. Instead of earning enough money to buy his own vehicle, as he’d hoped, the workplace incident left him walking on an artificial leg for the rest of his life.
Winter market returns this weekend
Melissa Maltais was chilled to the bone after the inaugural winter market in uptown New West – but she wasn’t complaining one bit.
While Royal City Farmers Market would like to have a few sunny days, the market’s operations manager was amazed by the number of people who attended the opening day of the winter market even though it was pouring rain.
“They came in droves,” she told the Record. “It was a really great day.”
Despite the downpour, Maltais was confident folks would attend the Royal City Farmers Market’s first market in the uptown.
“It showed how supportive the community is of our new location,” she said. “Our vendors tell me that they saw a lot of new customers, as well as returning customers. A lot of the new ones were just so excited to have that access to the market. There was quite a few seniors from our seniors’ shuttle program. They are now within walking distance.”
Maltais’ faith in the community translated into support from vendors signed up for the winter market.
“None of my vendors cancelled. They knew it was going to be torrential downpours,” she said. “One of them even drove from Cawsten – the one who brought the apples. That’s by Osoyoos. That was the only market she was doing that weekend, but she drove all the way down.”
In past years, Royal City Farmers Market has held its winter market in River Market at the Quay.
“The one big opportunity we have is being able to expand and have more and different vendors,” Maltais said of the new location. “On Saturday we had three new farms that we have never had at our summer market before. We had three new farms, we had Urban Digs come and sell pork products. We don’t have a pork product vendor at our summer market, so it’s a great way for us to expose our community to new vendors and have new vendors come and join us. This is a new testing ground for them, which is exciting for us.”
The next winter market will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Belmont Street.
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