You can help Canuck Place give short lives the gift of great days by purchasing a ticket for their 50/50 raffle. Canuck Place Children’s Hospice is British Columbia and Yukon’s pediatric palliative care provider. Over 818 children living with life-threatening illnesses and families from five provincial health regions receive Canuck Place inpatient and community care (in home/in hospital).
Canuck Place 50/50 Raffle
- Tickets: Buy online for 3 for $5; 7 for $10; 50 for $20; 150 Ticket Pack for $50
- Anticipated Prize: $500,000 to be split with the winner
- Deadline: Midnight, Wednesday, October 6, 2021
- Draw: Friday, October 8, 2021 at 11:00am
“It was a humbling experience, truly. You always think about the possibilities, but never actually believe you’re going to win,” says previous winner James from Saanich. “If you are thinking buying tickets, do it! At the very least, you are supporting a great cause in Canuck Place and you might win it all!”
For over 25 years, Canuck Place has been providing exceptional complex medical care, while helping children and families embrace living fully with the time they have left together. But not without donor support. That’s where your 50/50 ticket purchase can make a difference.
Canuck Place operates 13 patient beds and 8 family suites through two hospices in Vancouver and Abbotsford. Services include medical respite and family support, pain and symptom management, provincial 24-hour clinical care line, music and recreation therapy, education and art, grief, loss, and bereavement counselling, as well as end-of-life care. With donors, their talented team, including 400 energetic volunteers, they care for children with short lives and the families who love them.
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Miss604 is a proud sponsor of Canuck Place campaigns in 2021
Get ready to experience White Rock in a whole new way with the Search the Rock scavenger hunt! This popular seaside destination is filled with spectacular natural scenery, historic attractions, great places to eat and drink, and fun for the whole family. When you sign up to Search the Rock, you’ll be able to complete challenges (like selfies, visiting a business, checking in at a landmark etc.) using a specialized app and be entered to win up to $4,500 in prizes.
How to Participate
- Sign up here
- You’ll be sent the app
- Complete challenges on the app and you could win some awesome prizes like gift cards ($200) and White Rock getaway/staycation packages ($1,500). Play between September 1, 2021 at 12:00pm to September 26, 2021 at 3:00pm
Search the Rock is an app-based scavenger hunt game that can be played on iOS or Android devices. It’s free to play and includes a variety of challenge types: GPS-based, question and answers, multiple choice, QR code-based and photo and video-based.
The game includes selfies, special events, public art, businesses and landmarks. Play as a family, individual or with a group of friends.
Photo credit: Tyler Ingram Photography
The City, at its discretion, may also award bonus points to participants for their creativity and/or good deeds on a discretionary basis. One $50 White Rock-based gift card will be given away on September 8, September 15, and September 22 to a lucky participant.
Sign up, get the app, and start participating September 1, 2021. Full details, including contest rules and regulations, are available via the City of White Rock’s website.
Miss604 is a proud Sponsor of Search the Rock – look for the Miss604 challenges in the app!
Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today that they have made a significant contribution to its partners at Hope and Health and Kw’umut Lelum Child and Family Services to install the first two soccer pitches in a series of mini-pitches across Indigenous communities. The first two pitches will be built in partnership with the Penelakut Tribe and Snuneymuxw First Nation.
Two Soccer Mini-Pitches for Indigenous Communities
“Two of the biggest priorities at our club are to build stronger communities and grow the game across Canada,” said Axel Schuster, Whitecaps FC sporting director and chief executive officer. “For many years, participating in the annual Hope and Health community camps has been a very rewarding experience for our players and staff. With these new Mini-Pitches and our ongoing partnership with Hope and Health, we are very excited to continue supporting the development of Indigenous youth.”
The pitches will provide innovative, high quality and inspiring play environments to engage Indigenous children and youth in the beautiful game. At the same time, they will help develop soccer skills, along with activating a 5V5 Champions League across nations.
“2021 marks Hope and Health’s ten-year anniversary delivering our highly popular annual community camps and H3 community based multi-week programming in partnership with Whitecaps FC and multiple Indigenous communities,” said Deana Gill, Hope and Health executive director. “We’re very grateful to the Whitecaps for their commitment and significant financial contribution to this project and are very excited about this new league and mini-pitches. This offers the youth such an inspirational space to play within their own territory, and the high touch style of 5V5 will surely accelerate their technical development and above all us, levels up the fun factor.”
The first community of focus is Penelakut Tribe, a remote Indigenous community situated on Penelakut Island, accessible by ferry from Vancouver Island. The pitch will be ready for play on September 13, 2021.
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It’s the return of the rain and almost the return to school but first, we have one more sunshine-filled weekend in August to enjoy! There’s a concert series on the farm in Abbotsford, a food and arts festival in North Van, a celebration of Indigenous youth with some epic local and national performers, and sunflower festivals in the valley. Find these events and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Friday, August 27, 2021
Sponsored by Miss604: Burnaby Village Museum
Abbotsford’s Sun & Soil Concert Series
Shipyards Live Festival in North Van
Danceboy
The PNE Fair 2021
Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story
Music in the Courtyard at the Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival
Hidden Wonders Speakeasy Magic Experience
Festival d’été francophone de Vancouver
Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts 2021
Stanley Park Train
The Da Vinci Experience at Tsawwassen Mills
Hidden Wonders Speakeasy Magic Experience
Vancouver Aquarium
Chilliwack Sunflower Festival 2021
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SPUD, Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley’s local, sustainable, organic grocery delivery service, is partnering with the Fuel Up School Lunch Program to support vulnerable families, provide healthy meals, and ensure that no child goes hungry.
Fuel Up School Lunch Program
Did you know that 1 in 6 Canadian children under the age of 18 are affected by household food insecurity? Canada has over one million kids that need help to fight off hunger—and you can make a difference.
The Fuel Up School Lunch Program prepares fresh lunches for elementary and middle schools in the New Westminster and Abbotsford School Districts, along with select institutions in Burnaby, Vancouver, and West Vancouver. Their programs support vulnerable children in schools so that they too receive hot lunch, subsidized without classmates noticing. This school lunch program launched in 2019 to achieve an important goal: to ensure that no child is hungry, and every child eats healthy.
They’ve created a fresh meal delivery solution that offers more people healthy, tasty, and warm food that is good quality, yet affordable—an essential necessity, especially during COVID-19.
So far, the program has served 60,000+ hot lunches and 35,000+ subsidized meals!
How the Program Works
A portion from each meal ordered supports a subsidy for a child who otherwise might not have a lunch to eat. School districts have the option to implement a subsidy program, offering partial or full coverage for student meal costs. These meals are individually packaged and are made in-house, fresh from scratch. Subsidized and unsubsidized meals are made and packaged the exact same to reduce any stigmatization that may happen.
How You Can help Fight Food Insecurity
Here are a few ways to show your support through SPUD:
- Purchase one of the SPUD Back to School Bundles, they are donating $1 per bundle
- Place non-perishable items in your SPUD bin:
- Pasta
- Snacks with a long shelf life: granola bars, chips, popcorn, baked goods, crackers
- Canned food
- Dried Food
- Soy beverage products (that can be stored in room temperature)
- Donate to the Fuel Up School Lunch Program through one of SPUD’s donation buttons
For Miss604 Readers/Followers
Not a SPUD customer? Check out with promo code MISS604 and you’ll get $15 off your first order when you spend $50 or more. Already a SPUD customer? Use the same code for $5 off your next order over $50. Valid for all locations, August, 2021.
