The Soup Nazi is back in town this weekend to dish out some soup for a local fundraiser.
Larry Thomas, who played the iconic Soup Nazi character on Seinfeld, is returning to Greens and Beans Deli on Saturday, May 19.
He'll be serving soup at the Soup For Our Bellies fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. - with all proceeds going to the New Westminster junior and intermediate A Salmonbellies lacrosse teams.
"We are going to have different things going on that day," said café owner Leona Green. "We have a jazz band from the high school."
Greens and Beans Deli is located at 143 East Columbia St. in Sapperton.
SIX DECADES
Anniversary wishes to Ken and Georgina Emerson, who celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 17.
While the happy couple moved to Victoria about three years ago, they spent most of their lives living, working and raising a family in the Royal City.
"Both my parents were raised in New Westminster and graduated from high school there, one from (Duke of) Connaught and the other from (Trapp) Tech," said a noted from daughter Sherry Nantais.
"My dad was born at the Royal Columbian Hospital, as were all three of their children, two of their grandchildren and one of their great-grandchildren."
Ken worked for many years at Westminster Fish Company, which had been located on Front Street.
He also coached his sons' lacrosse and hockey teams for many years.
AUTHOR HONOURED
A New Westminster author is in the running for a prestigious literary award in South Africa.
New Westminster resident Erich Rautenbach's book, The Unexploded Boer, has been longlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction.
Written in Canada and published by Random House Struik imprint Zebra Press in Cape Town, the memoir is described as a "wild story of rebellion and retribution" that recreates the hippie/glam subculture of 1970s Cape Town and follows the author as he tries anything to avoid conscription into the South Africa army, including smuggling dagga (marijuana), leading to his arrest by undercover cops.
Rautenbach spent the three months in South Africa this past winter to promote The Unexploded Boer and to write and research for future projects.
He was a featured author at the recent Lit Fest New West.
While the book can be found in bookstores all across South Africa and Namibia, The Unexploded Boer is available locally in at select Chapters and Indigo stores in Greater Vancouver as well as through Amazon.ca and Chapters.Indigo.ca.
FAMILIAR FACES
Coun. Betty McIntosh may have left the Royal City for a vacation, but she couldn't fully escape New Westminster.
On a recent cruise to Hawaii, the city councillor met about 20 people from the Royal City.
"I didn't know these people - but they knew me," she laughed.
"You'd walk off the ship at a port - there is someone saying, 'Hi, Betty.' I would say, 'Are you a resident of New Westminster?'"
Sure enough, they were. It seems residents from Sapperton to Queensborough had booked space on the same tropical getaway.
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