The City of New Westminster is seeking community input about a well-used spray park in need of a facelift.
The city is embarking on consultation about the community’s vision for Moody Park playground and spray park. While the playground is often filled with kids and families, it’s in need of an overhaul.
The city is holding an open house about the Moody Park adventure plan and spray park on Thursday, July 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Moody Park’s playground, which is at the corner of Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue. Park users, residents, business owners and anyone interested in the project are invited to attend the open house, which is the first phase of consultation.
While the forecast is calling for sunny skies on Thursday, the event will be moved indoors to Century House if it’s raining.
She’s aiming below the belt
It was a family affair for New West’s Kirsten Ickert during the weekend’s Underwear Affair.
Ickert participated in her fifth Underwear Affair to help raise funds for cancers below the waist. As part of the B.C. Cancer Foundation’s Underwear Affair, hundreds of participants ran 10 kilometres, walked five kilometres or took part in a “booty hunt” through the streets of Vancouver in their underwear to raise funds for the foundation and cancers below the waist.
Within a few years of each other, her mom Eileenand her aunt Mona were both diagnosed with cancers below the waist. Although her mom beat the cancer – and participated as a survivor alongside Kirsten in this year’s Underwear Affair – her aunt Mona succumbed to cancer in 2011.
“Her strength, courage and faith during this time continues to be both humbling and inspiring,” Kirsten wrote on her Underwear Affair team page. “I strongly believe that one day there will be a cure for cancer and I am eager to contribute in the best way that I can.”
While Kirsten has participated in the Underwear Affair in the past, she’s had some company for this year’s July 5 event. Along with her mother, father and an aunt, she was part of Team Scrambled Eggs
