Between The Bridges – April 10

Do you love creating eye-catching posters and social media posts? We need your help!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first residents moving into False Creek South, and we have a lot planned, including Music In The Square, Between The Bridges content, and community events. We’re looking for a volunteer to help us create visually appealing posters, social media posts, and other graphics to promote the 50th anniversary and our events.

Time Commitment: Introductory meeting and 2-3 hours per month

Skills: We use Canva, but are open to Adobe Creative Suite or similar.

Here are events taking place in the next few weeks.  Please join us. 

Sunday, April 19th, 10am–4:30 pm: Consent and Power in Grief, Death, and Dying with Helena De Felice, Our Sacred Body

A nourishing and heart-centered exploration of embodied consent and power in grief, death, and dying. This offering welcomes curiosity and gentle awareness towards topics and areas that are often avoided: grief, death, and power. Participants are invited to explore through choice-based guided somatic practices and inquiries, supported by various expressive modalities, including dialogue, drawing, and writing.

Thursday, April 23rd, 10am –11:30am: Reflecting on Aging

Join our circle of elders as we explore aging in False Creek South and tune in to projects in the community that support our aging in place. All are welcome.

Friday, April 24th, 5:30 – 9 pm: Family Constellations Workshop 
with Andrea Woodhouse

Explore the unseen dynamics within your family system – a gentle yet powerful healing experience. In a supportive circle, we’ll bring awareness to inherited patterns, emotional entanglements, and generational influences that may be shaping your life. Through this embodied process, space opens for release, insight, and reconnection with your own inner strength and clarity. No prior experience is needed. Just a willingness to show up with curiosity and heart.

If you would like more information or to register, please be in touch with me at *email is hidden, JavaScript is required*. If you have a group or an idea that we might include in the programming for Circles In The Square, let us know or just drop by 665A Market Hill in Leg-In-Boot Square, just down the way from Convivial Café.

 

Kyong-ae Kim, Twin Rainbows Co-op, asks:
I wonder if this petition is something Between The Bridges might want to publicize and RePlan might want to get behind? The area is not directly in our neighbourhood but is in the environs.

Proposed spa at Vancouver Maritime Museum Heritage Harbour

Dear Parks Are For People Protester,

I am concerned that a piece of Kitsilano’s public waterfront may be drifting away from its intended purpose. This time, the issue is the proposal to install a floating HAVN sauna spa at Heritage Harbour, adjacent to the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

At first glance, the idea might sound harmless—even appealing. Who could object to a spa? But the real question is not whether saunas are pleasant. The real question is whether a commercial spa belongs in Heritage Harbour at all.

Heritage Harbour was not created as a commercial marina or an entertainment venue. It exists for a very specific reason: to support the mandate of the Vancouver Maritime Museum and to preserve maritime heritage. The harbour functions as a living extension of the museum itself—home to historic vessels, educational programming, and maritime interpretation.

A private spa, no matter how tastefully designed, is simply not part of that mission.

The Maritime Museum Heritage Harbour should remain as intended: A harbour for maritime heritage, open to the public—not a platform for private spa operations.

Please click on this Shape Your City link and let the City of Vancouver know how you feel about this matter. You can also sign this Online Petition.

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From Tracy Betel, Fairview Place:

Recycling Alternative started as the new recycling contractor five weeks ago. In our False Creek strata building, they have picked up late three times. Two of those times, I logged the missed pickups on the Recycle BC app. I don't believe the missed pickups are caused by the previous contractor (Waste Management) not picking up, as the article suggests. At least for our building, missed pickups are a new problem.

I recommend that buildings log their missed pickups in the recycling app, and hopefully, Recycling BC will work with the new contractor to address this issue. More information is available in this CBC news article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/recycle-bins-delays-vancouver-recyclebc-9.7145520.

Fairview Automotive, a local car repair shop at 2250 Heather St., just across the street from the 7-11 mall, was sold on March 6, 2026 by owner Peter Budnic, who intends to retire. Mr. Budnic had operated the local car-repair shop for 36 years.

The shop is continuing to operate under the ownership of Taj and Frank, who will help customers as the new owners prepare to repaint the inside of the building. Mr. Budnic gave them a glowing recommendation.

Mr. Budnic said that his decision was motivated by another decision – that of his wife – who has taught North Vancouver schoolchildren for 23 years, to take retirement with full benefits last year. He hopes this Fairview Automotive transition will allow them to travel.

“But,” he said, “I’ve arranged with the new owners that if they ever get stuck with an issue in fixing a car, I don’t live far away and I’ll help them right away.”

Several previous events were highlighted in the discussion as ones to repeat: Saturday Afternoon Music (including Irish day), Indigenous Peoples' Day, and chair yoga. A new suggestion is a celebration for the neighbourhood’s 50th anniversary. Maybe a disco party!?!
 
Among other new and repeat ideas, the most popular were: 

• Fruit/vegetable stand or farmers’ truck 
• Community displays and information-sharing 
• Game day/days (board games, giant chess, etc.) 
• Afternoon Tea
• Story slam 
• Special occasions (Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparents Day, Canada Day, World Ocean Day, etc.)

Also suggested: 

• Tribute bands 
• Thrift sale/Buy-Nothing exchange 
• “Elephant in the Room” 
• Sunday Sunset Series (music), movies, magic and other entertainments, craft market, speaker series, open mic (music, comedy, etc.) and poetry slam/reading, with the suggestion that some of these events could be combined, for example, Story Slam with Afternoon Tea; Tribute band for Father's Day, etc.

There are some great ideas here! However, those that happen (or happen again) will be those that people volunteer to organize and actualize. In each case, someone needs to take the reins, and others to assist with everything from planning to setting up equipment to cleaning up afterwards. 
 
Fortunately, several people at the meeting volunteered to join the ReBoot Group, which, as in past years, is a sounding board, support group and central hub, providing general oversight for events and activities at Leg-In-Boot Square. More would be welcome.  

Thank you to these volunteers, as well as all the others who have been working behind the scenes to make things happen over the years. 
 
If any of the ideas spark your interest, please send a message to *email is hidden, JavaScript is required* or drop by the Convivial Café for a chat with Beth or Dani.

This week, Ken Sim, one of the first candidates to formally declare their candidacy for the mayor’s chair, launched his re-election campaign.

Next week, on April 16, postings will open for election workers.

October 17 is civic election day.

As of this writing, at least seven individuals have declared, or are mulling over, their entry into the race for mayor. Along with the organization/civic party supporting them, these are:

Kareen Allam (Vancouver Liberals)
William Azaroff (OneCity Vancouver)
Rebecca Bligh (Vote Vancouver)
Pete Fry (Green Party of Vancouver)
Colleen Hardwick (Team For A Livable Vancouver)
Ken Sim (ABC)
Kennedy Stewart (Fix City Hall)

The next meeting of Nathan’s Book Club is on Sunday, April 12th, at 2:00 pm in the False Creek Co-op’s Sitka Square meeting room. 

The book is Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody, edited by Emily Macrae et al.
 
Two copies are available to borrow. Contact Sarah Brown at *email is hidden, JavaScript is required*" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">*email is hidden, JavaScript is required*. The book is also available at VPL. Library hold requests can be made at this link:
https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C10408912

If you plan to attend, please email Sarah who is arranging for sufficient seating and, of course, enough snacks.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first residents moving into False Creek South. So what did the Creek look like 50 years ago?

Check out this local landmark, in a photo dated March 12, 1976:

Not quite ready for business!