Brian Jessel BMW is presenting their 7th annual charity gala, Cabriolet, this summer with special guest, CeeLo Green. Each year the gala support a variety of local charitable recipients and this year the Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation will benefit.
Where Brian Jessel BMW, 2311 Boundary Road
When Saturday, June 23, 2012
Tickets Available now online. General admission tickets are $200 and VIP tickets are $500.
The event will feature a live performance from CeeLo Green (Gnarls Barkley, The Voice), complimentary valet parking, beverages, and appetizers, a live auction, and a chance to win a one-year lease of a new 2012 Brian Jessel BMW.
Proceeds from this event will partially benefit the new children’s ER currently being built at Surrey Memorial Hospital (which happens to be where I was born). The children’s ER will open to patients as a central feature of a 57,600 square foot Emergency Centre to be located on the first floor of the 8-storey Critical Care Tower.
Established in 1992, Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation has raised more than $60 million to purchase medical equipment, fund innovative programs, and support training and research.
If you’re looking for that one fabulous gala experience this summer, consider this event and support a great local cause. The VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation will also be benefitting from the evening.
Several times a day you can look at a blog, Twitter stream, Facebook post or Pinterest and find photos of food — but it’s not often that these posts turn into a full 70+ page e-book. For Paul Jarvis however, it was a natural progression. The Tofino-based web designer, musician, and vegan has just launched Eat Awesome A regular person’s guide to eating plant-based whole foods.
Cover photo by Marnie Recker
Paul Jarvis, whom I first met when I interviewed his band Mojave back in 2008, posts simple and colourful images of his food – with ingredients like almond milk, quinoa, cashew cream, and hemp seeds – to his Instagram account.
“Dozens of friends, family members, and social media buddies have been asking me how to cook like I cook, eat like I eat,” says Paul who ended up typing up recipes by email to all those who inquired. “It occurred to me that I ought to save myself (and my friends) some serious time, and just write a book.”
Eat Awesome is available for download right now for just $5 and is splashed with taste-bud tingling photos courtesy of Marnie Recker. Chapters include dressings and sauces, meals, desserts and drinks. Once you’ve read the book Paul even offers up some Twitter updates that you can copy and paste to help spread the word.
The e-book asks, “If you are what you eat, why not eat awesome?” and Paul hopes that you’ll do just that. “I don’t know everything. But food is my life, and my life is pretty awesome.” If you would like to check out the book, you can leave a comment on this post to enter to win 1 of 5 copies. You can also post the following on Twitter to enter to win:
I will draw 5 winners at random from all entries on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 12:00pm.
Update The winners are @JoanneBee_, @juwelly, Jenny, Samantha, and Tamara!
April has arrived in Vancouver and along with it comes the city’s 126th birthday, Easter events, Vaisakhi, and more rain showers meaning more beautiful blossoms.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
UBC Bookstore: National Poetry Month Celebration
Vancouver Auto Show
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Twenty Something Theatre Presents The Bomb-itty of Errors (until April 22)
Vancouver Auto Show
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival: Cherry Jam Downtown
Vancouver Auto Show
Friday, April 6, 2012
Free Clothing Swap
Terminal City Rollergirls Season Opener
Vancouver Auto Show
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Local Easter Egg Hunts & Events
Vancouver Auto Show
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Days
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Local Easter Egg Hunts & Events
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Days
Vancouver Auto Show
Rosewood Hotel Georgia Easter Celebrations Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
New Westminster will be celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Burr Block building this month. The old provincial capital was destroyed by fire in 1898 (twelve years after Vancouver’s “Great Fire”) and the Burr Block at 411-419 Columbia Street was only one of two buildings that remained. Today, it’s the home of the Met Hotel, Bar & Grill, and liquor store and they’re preparing to throw a birthday bash like no other.
1898 – Looking down Columbia Street from the top of Burr Block
Archives item# Out N582. Photographer: C.E. Bloomfield.
The Burr Block building was built by William Henry Burr (1827-1896), an early teacher and settler to the area. Mr. Burr was hard hit by the recession of the mid-1890s and eventually retired to Ladner, BC. An interesting aside, he was related to the famous actor, Raymond Burr, who played the leading role of lawyer/detective on The Perry Mason Show. [source]
1906 – Columbia at 4th, Burr Block. VPL Accession Number: 6925. Photographer: Philip Timms.
Constructed in 1892 at the height of the Victorian building and investment boom in New Westminster, the Burr Block is valued as an example of the Victorian Romanesque Revival style. It features extensive use of unglazed red brick and terra cotta ornament manufactured locally by the building’s contractor, Thomas Hemborough, and the Archibald Brothers. The Burr Block is an example of the work of architect George William Grant (1852-1925), a prolific architect, who designed many of the buildings in downtown New Westminster before and after the Great Fire.
Following the fire, he moved his office into the Burr Block, where he redesigned and restored the buildings that survived, and designed replacement blocks for those that were destroyed, much reduced in scale and opulence in comparison to pre-fire buildings. [source]
Starting with a ceremony Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 1:00pm with birthday cake and the Mayor, The Met will kick off a week of celebrations and festivities including themed drink, food specials, and discounts. There will be nightly draws for gift cards and tickets to Lafflines, pints of 1892 lager, a three-course dinner for $18.92, and more. The ceremony with local dignitaries and birthday cake will be all-ages/kid-friendly however events in the pub are for those of legal drinking age.
Walking around Stanley Park nowadays there are hardly any remnants of the zoo that once housed over 50 species of animals, from monkeys and cobras to penguins and kangaroos. However, the old cement polar bear habitat still haunts the grounds just west of Brockton Oval and south of the Vancouver Aquarium.
When I was young we would take day trips into the city and visit the animals in the zoo. The penguin tank was up closer to the aquarium. They would march up a platform, lie on their bellies, and slip down a slide into their pool of water. The process was repeated incessantly. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
