Dress for Success Vancouver (“DFSV”) has opened ticket sales for their highly anticipated annual fundraiser IMPACT 360. This year’s theme is Opening Doors, showcasing the transition Dress for Success facilitates for women in the Lower Mainland. The event raises funds for DFSV’s Sponsor a Woman and Professional Women’s Group programs.
Dress for Success IMPACT 360
When: Thursday May 10, 2017 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm Where: The Permanent (330 West Pender, Vancouver) Tickets: Available online now for $175
Festivities will be held at the Permanent, a recently restored heritage space downtown Vancouver that once held the Bank of Canada. Elegant music and cocktails set the stage for a fashion show, live auction hosted by Fred Lee and door prizes in addition to exclusive networking opportunities.
IMPACT 360 is an annually anticipated event bringing together Dress for Success Vancouver supporters, friends and corporate community.
“Every woman has a story,” says Dress for Success Vancouver client, Cheryl-Ann Henning who will be walking the fashion runway at the event. “I want to be an example of courage for the donors that make these programs possible as well as other women who need a door opened for them.”
Make an Impact by joining Dress for Success supporters on May 10th at their exciting new venue, the Permanent. The evening will feature spirit tastings, designer cocktails, hor d’oeuvres, music, entertainment and celebration. The goal of the evening is to help Dress for Success open the door for 100 women, at a sponsorship cost of $360 per woman, per year.
About Dress for Success
I had a tour of Dress for Success in Vancouver in 2014, and it’s been a cause I’ve been happy to promote ever since. They are committed to empowering women into the workforce by providing a professional attire, career development tools and a career advancement program. An affiliate of the International organization Dress for Success, DFSV was established in 1999 as the first International affiliate and has served over 25,000 women in the Lower Mainland.
This post has been contributed by the Stanley Park Ecology Society, and edited by Edited by Kathleen Stormont, SPES Communications Specialist.
The Biggest Trees in Stanley Park
Many of our province’s biggest trees are found right in Stanley Park, just a walk from downtown Vancouver!
150 years ago the Lower Mainland would have been covered by lowland forest, but the rapid growth of Vancouver led to much of this forest being cleared. Stanley Park is one of the few areas of coastal rainforest that remains. Surviving logging, fire, and major windstorms in the Park, the big trees continue to stand sentinel in remnant patches of old-growth.
Bald eagles, owls, bats, and flying squirrels may be observed in or around these giants. The old trees’ deformities or characteristics – like thick, corrugated bark on the Douglas firs – make them excellent wildlife trees, enhancing the biodiversity of the Park areas in which they stand.
If you’ve ever wondered what the forest looks like from the top of one of these giants, Stanley Park Ecology Society is hosting their third annual Big Tree Weekend on April 29th and 30th. Experts will offer tours around the base of the big trees, while others will take you into the treetops – by video camera – as they ascend to explore and reveal these biologically-rich micro-environments. For a sneak peak of the tree climb, check out this video shot during last year’s Big Tree Weekend.
While Stanley Park isn’t a pristine forest (massive stumps reveal its long history of human interference), it is a rich and varied habitat, and even more so since the 2006 windstorm when a fresh, forward-thinking Forest Management Plan was produced. Of the 16,000 saplings planted during the storm restoration, some trees are now two metres tall in sunlit patches of new forest succession.
Douglas squirrel in Stanley Park. Photo: Michael Schmidt
Bird diversity has increased in the fresh shrubbery. Strategic forest trails were reworked with larger culverts and boardwalks to allow healthier water flow. Unsanctioned trails have been decommissioned to mitigate forest defragmentation, and invasive plants continue to be battled through strategic management. Fallen trees, now left by the Park Board, are serving as habitat and nourishment for wildlife and saplings.
Stanley Park is a lowland rainforest primarily made up of Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock with a few Sitka spruce trees. Most of our forest is second or third growth – younger trees – but they are still huge. You can often tell whether an area is second growth by the scattered presence of stumps of trees logged many years ago.
Wet Ape Productions and Buena Onda of Savoury Chef Catering will host Vancouver’s Cinco de Mayo celebration this year and everyone is invited to this casa de amigos in the heart of downtown.
Cinco de Mayo in Vancouver at Casa de Amigos
Where: Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver When: May 5, 2017 5:00pm to 11:00pm & May 6, 2017 3:00pm to 11:00pm Tickets: Tickets start at $18.95. Group pricing will be available for corporate functions, school groups. Purchase online now for Friday and Saturday.
For those with an appetite for culture and fun, they’ll be offering the very best of Mexico, from traditional street food and drinks to live entertainment. Enjoy gourmet tacos, ceviche, churros, and other handheld Mexican street-style foods. Sip and savour a wide array of signature tequila cocktails and your favourite Mexican cervezas.
Whatever your tastes, there’s something for everyone, including a street market, mariachi bands, traditional folk dancers, luchadores, and more.
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I have 4 tickets for Casa de Amigos to give away, as well as tickets for 4 margaritas, and 4 complimentary coat checks! Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Way back when, John and I had a rock n’ roll podcast and I wrote for E! Online while I was trying to start up Miss604. These ventures led to me sitting down to interview Matt Layzell of The Matinée over at Roxy Burger almost ten years ago. The next summer, I was at a backyard barbecue and I chatted with Geoff Petrie about the t-shirt screen printing station our friend had setup for the occasion. At a spring festival that followed, Matt Rose and Peter Lemon took the time to meet all of my little nieces and nephews following a performance.
These guys are local roots rockers with a big sound, big dreams, and even bigger hearts, so I’m just going to tell you flat out: You Should Get The The Matinée’s New Album.
2) You should listen to the single Dancing on Your Grave. You’ll like it. You should also request it from your local radio station.
3) While you’re at it, you should also get their album We Swore We’d See the Sunrise and put on the anthemic tracks Young & Lazy and The Road. Then get Broken Arrows and put Call of the Wild on repeat. The lead single, Temper Temper hit #1 on the CBC Radio 3 national charts.
5) The Matts spent time writing songs in a rustic cabin on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. And the Sunshine Coast is awesome. They are, however, from Coquitlam. And Coquitlam is awesome too.
6) Last but certainly not least, get tickets to their shows and see them play live. You’ll have a whole lot of fun, I promise.
Follow The Matinee on Facebook and Twitter for far more information about the band and where they’ll be touring this season.
IMPACT 360 is an annually anticipated event bringing together Dress for Success Vancouver supporters, friends and corporate community.
150 years ago the Lower Mainland would have been covered by lowland forest, but the rapid growth of Vancouver led to much of this forest being cleared. Stanley Park is one of the few areas of coastal rainforest that remains. Surviving logging, fire, and major windstorms in the Park, the big trees continue to stand sentinel in remnant patches of old-growth. 
