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Around Town: Earthkeepers at New Brighton, Rikk Watts, Village Church . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • July 6, 2017 • 0 Comments

The weather is likely to remain perfect this weekend, so some might want to spend Saturday morning (July 8) with the Earthkeepers down at New Brighton Park, on Burrard Inlet in east Vancouver. They are gathering volunteers to “help clean up…

Vancouver neighbourhoods: Hastings-Sunrise

by Jonathan Bird / Flyn Ritchie • October 8, 2015 • 0 Comments

Hastings-Sunrise is mostly residential, with a lively commercial strip along Hastings Street, but is probably best known as the home of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE). Historically a working class neighbourhood with a higher-than-average percentage of low income households, the…