Dear Editor: Reading The Record's series, Our Neighbourhood, has been a particular source of personal pleasure for me. It has been thoughtfully rendered and unfailingly paints marvelously amorphous impressions of our city's physical and metaphysical map. You've loosely lashed together the collection of squabbling, crazy quilt communities that blanket New Westminster.
It is said that one of the greatest assets of any neighbourhood is a man who owns a good stepladder and will let neighbours use it. The "newest" kid on the block, the Quayside community, boasts just such a neighbour, Quayside Boardwalk Sale co-ordinator James Crosty. Not only will he loan the ladder, he'll hold it for you.
New Westminster Lions Club and many other non-profit organizations, including the Royal Westminster Regiment who are celebrating their 150th anniversary this year, have benefited from the "leg up" that Crosty and his legion of volunteers so generously proffer. Service clubs, which are slowly disappearing on the horizon are highlighted, elevated and celebrated at this spirited annual event. For all of this, we thank you, James Crosty and Quayside Community Board.
In honour of the recent Quayside Boardwalk Sale success, I'm smiling and humming - a little "offquay," On the Street Where You Live.
Louisa Lundy, president
New Westminster
Lions Club
