Next Sunday the BC Lions will kick off the second game of their 56th season back where it all began, at Empire Field in East Vancouver. With the dome at BC Place deflated and renovations well underway, the 2010 season will take place outside on turf where the team played from 1954 to 1982.
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I had the chance to catch up with Jamie Cartmell, Director of Communications for the Lions fresh off of training camp in Kamloops this week. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
Canada Day celebrations will be happening on July 1st in Richmond with the Steveston Salmon Festival.
Photo credit: Yai&JR on Flickr
Where
Steveston Village in Richmond. The parade route will be Garry Point Park, through Steveston, then past the Community Centre to Railway Avenue. [Google Map]
When
July 1, 2010 10:00am – 6:00pm
Activities
The day begins with a pancake breakfast at 6:30am until 11:30am
Japanese Cultural Show 10:00am – 4:00pm
Craft Fair 10:00am – 5:00pm
Trade Show 10:00am – 5:00pm
Children’s Festival 10:00am – 5:00pm
Carnival rides & Midway 11:00am – 6:00pm
Martial Arts Demonstrations
Youth Rock Fest 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Food Fair 10:00am – 5:00pm
Art Show & Exhibit 10:00am – 5:00pm
The famous salmon barbecue is the main attraction where over 1200 pounds of wild salmon filets will be grilled over open fire pits. It will begin at 11:00am and will run until everything is sold out.
Parade
The parade begins 10:00am (route outlined above). It will have over 100 entries including floats, marching bands, celebrities, politicians, community groups, vintage vehicles & more. There will be a childrens’ bicycle parade will start just ahead of the main parade at 9:30am.
Music
The main stage Host is Rick Duff, GM of the River Rock Casino and Resort. He will welcome everyone during the opening ceremonies (where the national anthem will be sung) at 12:30pm before the entertainment begins.
Andrew Allen 1:00pm
The Jardines 2:00pm
Hip Hop Dance Show 3:00pm
Steveston Seniors Drumming Group 3:30pm
Georgia Rain 4:00pm
Related posts for Canada Day 2010: Granville Island, Richmond/Steveston, North Vancouver, Canada Place, Whistler, and Surrey. The series will continue this week with more listings.
It’s been a while since I featured only HDR photography in a photo post so I sifted through the Miss604 Flickr Pool and found quite a few gems. These are all High Dynamic Range photos from around the Lower Mainland.
As always, please click-through on the images to see more work from each photographer and feel free to add your own photos to the Miss604 Flickr Pool.
The next theme from the group will be showcasing tilt-shift photos in the style of the image below. This is where the focus is shifted and things end up looking mini. You can take the photo like that originally or even cheat a bit and use TiltShiftMaker.com like I did for this pic.
If you have any tilt-shift photos, please consider adding them to the group so that I can showcase here in the next roundup.
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic cauldron will be re-lit for Canada Day 2010 once a few renovations are complete.
The site is surrounded by a fence and the distinctive 2010 blue-and-green hoarding that once surrounded all Olympic venues. The redesign will include a reflecting pool with a map of Canada showing the torch relay route under the cauldron. Benches for people to sit will surround the perimeter. [Vancouver Sun]
Located in the Jack Poole Plaza outside the Vancouver Convention Centre, the flame will also burn for other special occasions yet to be determined. Some say Remembrance Day in November is already on the list.
Update According to a comment from Bart on this post, for $10,000 you can request the cauldron be lit for a 24 hour period should you have a special occasion. I’m wondering… when would you like to see the cauldron lit and/or do you know someone or a company that would go for the purchase deal?
Jillian Harris (The Bachelorette, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) will be hosting a fundraising event on June 17th benefiting Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver.
Despite her move to Chicago and her new role as a designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Jillian will be attending this event in Surrey, BC and showing her support for Big Brothers, a program with which she has been involved in the past. She was a Big Buddy to two students from Bayview Elementary School in Vancouver from 2005 – 2008.
The event will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and The Beat 94.5‘s Nira Arora. Jillian will also be doing a Q&A session with guests.
Big Brothers hopes the event will increase awareness about their volunteer opportunities for women, as well as recruit women to volunteer as In-School mentors in Surrey where some children wait two years for Big Buddies.
Cocktails for a Cause takes place June 17th at Earls Strawberry Hill (7236 120th/Scott Road) from 7:00pm until 10:00pm. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased in advance online.
