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Editorial Committee: Susan Wright, Sharon Yandle
Production Editor: Robyn Chan
Proofreader: Kathryn Woodward
Contributors this Issue: Maria Roth (False Creek Co-op), Beth Dempster (Convivial Cafe), Rosemary Dunne, Tineke Hellwig (Fountain Terrace)
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Co-op Member? Save The Date
FOOD! FUN! FILM!
Maria Roth, False Creek Co-op
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Kids, parents, friends:
Please join us for a barbeque in the beautiful backyard gardens of Creekview Co-op on Saturday May 27, 11am to 1pm, and celebrate the launch of a new community film project!
SAVE OUR CO-OP! will be a film focussed on kids, co-ops, friends and False Creek South. With some adventure thrown in.
Learn more about why we think it's important to make this film, how it will help Creekview Co-op and others, and how you can be in it.
We will be serving hot dogs, chips, snacks and light refreshments, and hope to hear why you love your co-op, and what *you* think should be in our film.
Co-ops in our community need our support – and kids' voices matter too!
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DATE SET FOR WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
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Tuesday, June 6, 7 pm is the date of our Writers’ Workshop for new and continuing contributors to Between The Bridges. Place is False Creek Co-op in Sitka Square.
Like False Creek South itself, Between The Bridges runs on volunteers. While the editors willingly chase down stories and photos, write up items here and there, edit as needed and put all those bits and pieces together, we can’t do it without others contributing a lot of the content.
To encourage and provide some help to our contributors, this very casual workshop will identify some of the ways that journalism differs from the kind of essay writing all of us learned at school. Understanding a few simple “rules” will help make the act of writing more rewarding to the writer and interesting to the reader.
If you’d like to attend and haven’t already signed up, drop us a line: *email is hidden, JavaScript is required*.
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Plaza In The Square
SUMMER ACTIVITIES START THIS MONTH
Beth Dempster, Convivial Cafe
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It’s time to start marking your calendar for summer events and activities! Bookmark leginboot.ca to keep up with plans.
Volunteers make these events successful, so please let us know if you can help: Email *email is hidden, JavaScript is required* or talk to Beth at the Convivial Cafe.
Garden(ing) Party - Saturday May 27, 2pm
Come meet your neighbours and get your fingers dirty as we spruce up Leg-In-Boot Square and add a bit of colour. Plants, tools and tasty goodies will reward you for your efforts. (If you like to garden, but cannot attend on May 27, sign-up to help keep everything green and healthy through our busy summer.)
Thursday Afternoon Tea and Social - June 1, continuing, 3pm
White tablecloths, fine-china teacups and tasty little goodies. This popular event will start up again in June. Come and join your neighbours and passers-by for tea and conversation. We plan to add occasional light entertainment this year: classical or folk music, poetry readings... Do you have ideas...?
Saturday Afternoon Music - June-September, 2-4 pm
The fourth year of this series starts June 3, running every Saturday until mid-September. Many favourites will be returning, including The 2 Jayz, Shawn Bullshields, Josh Minsky, The Fox Hops and Irish Day! A few new musicians as well would increase diversity: How about a swing band, and a classical quartet? Watch for monthly announcements throughout the neighbourhood for performance details. |
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Bring-Buy-Gift event
Similar to last year, this will be an opportunity for neighbours to give/sell/exchange used items of good quality. Tentatively scheduled for June 24 this event needs more volunteers to help organize beforehand, set-up and take-down – and to consider a similar event for the fall.
Art and Craft Fair - Aug 12
Once again local artists and artisans will have an opportunity to display and sell their wares in the Square.
Thank-you!
All these events and activities are free, community-driven and volunteer-led. Support comes from the efforts of many volunteers, donations from neighbours, the goodwill of performers, in-kind and financial contributions from the Convivial Cafe and the False Creek South Neighbourhood Association, grants from Neighbourhood Small Grants and other grants and support from the City of Vancouver.
Thank-you to everyone for your contributions toward making Leg-In-Boot Square a vibrant community asset!
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WALK AND ROLL ON THE SEAWALL
Rosemary Dunne
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Last month residents of The Broadway Group – the long term care facility Broadway Lodge, and the False Creek Residence for adults with disabilities – enjoyed a fun outing of walk, bike and roll on the False Creek seawall.
This is the second year that the organizers, joined by a dozen staff and volunteers, put coats and blankets on 35 residents and shared with them the beauty of a sunny Vancouver spring day. As they rolled and walked along the seawall they also shared in stories, singing, and laughter, enjoying the flowers, dogs and people met along the way.
Watch for this enthusiastic group over the summer. They plan to make this a regular event!
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Missing Dog Statue
PLOT CHANGES BUT SAGA CONTINUES
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Last issue Between The Bridges wondered what happened to the fountain’s missing dog centrepiece at the south end of the Laurel overpass, aka the land bridge.
Recent conversations on a local Facebook site revealed that others were wondering too. But as time passed, something else happened and it went like this:
All have been lamenting the loss of our little dog, “Boots” - so named because, as Andrea Harbour recalled, “she went missing once before and returned wearing boots, so here’s hoping”.
Less optimistically, Hannah Macdonald “saw a sign nearby that only fountains that recirculate water” would be operated - and “Boots didn’t”. And Abigail Thom had heard that “he was stolen”.
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Anvita Ankur reported another sign indicating that “the City of Vancouver is systematically cleaning fountains this spring”, and hopefully added, “Boots is just getting a bath!”
Perhaps the most realistic comment – one with, unfortunately, a certain ring of truth – came from Jelena Brcic-Rolfe:
“Apparently someone did talk to city staff and they don’t know who took Boots. They are as baffled as us”.
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While no–one seemed to know what happened to Boots, some days later, Miguel Cortines posted that “we came upon these cute dog sculptures on the ledge of the water fountain where our beloved stone dog used to be. I thought it was really sweet and it made us smile.”
All that is really known is that Boots is gone and an anonymous artist printed and tethered a number of verses by various poets to a sculpted collection of dogs (complete with fire hydrant) and mounted both on the edge of a dry and empty fountain, bringing some joy to passers-by. Which is no small thing.
As Jonelle Peron added, “The love of dogs lives on!”
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FOUNTAIN TERRACE PAVES - AND PAYS
Tineke Hellwig, Fountain Terrace
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After years of putting up with uneven pavement on Fountain Way ( the result of soil still settling under the buildings), the adjacent Fountain Terrace Strata resolved this hazardous situation by creating a ramp and stairs.
A lot of needed research determined who is responsible for this stretch of public walkway in front of 1477 Fountain Way: the City of Vancouver, Fountain Terrace and/or the Twin Rainbows Co-op.
It turned out that the Fountain Terrace Strata is liable for it and had to bear the costs of the repairs. Now everyone can walk by safely again without the risk of tripping over loose pavers.
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Earlier this week Co-Chair Nancy Hannum (Alder Bay Co-op) opened a meeting of RePlan’s All Working Group (AWG) with a brief timeline of the shrinking of neighbouring Squamish nation reserve land.
With colonization in full force by 1877, the Federal Government set aside 80 acres as the Kitsilano Indian Reserve at the mouth of False Creek.
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“Indian Encampment” depicting Senakw, Emily Carr, 1905
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From 1901 over the next 40 years, governments expropriated pieces of this land nine times for the benefit of the CPR, a lumber company, the Defense Department and for the construction of Burrard Street Bridge and a railroad bridge.
Ten years after these expropriations began, the Canadian parliament discussed its concern that an Indian Reserve near a town is a hinderance to development. The next month, in May, 1911, it amended the Indian Act to give the government the right to relocate any reserve near a town of 8,000 or more residents without having to obtain the prior approval of the reserve’s residents.
By 1965 the reserve had been broken into pieces and sold.
But in 2002, the Squamish Nation won a 25-year court battle to reclaim a small portion of the land – which we now know as Senakw.
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About our April 23 issue, Val Embree (False Creek Co-op) writes:
Wow you Editorial Committee people - you continue to knock it out of the park.
What a great newsletter. What a great neighbourhood!
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The bike hit-and-run problem isn’t confined to the seawall.
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CONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES: ARTICLES AND PHOTOS
Between The Bridges welcomes readers’ contributions of story ideas, events of interest, original photographs, and completed articles relevant to the False Creek South Neighbourhood Association’s goal to “promote an economically, social and culturally diverse neighbourhood with a friendly, positive and vibrant sense of community”. For details go to:
http://www.falsecreeksouth.org/2021/01/between-the-bridges-contributor-guidelines/
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