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Message from Hives for Humanity re zoom workshops

May 30, 2020

A Message from Hives for Humanity:

Hello All!
Thank you for those who attended our event online last night, for your questions and presence, and for your patience with a few tech issues (our Zoom account says we can have 100 people but we were unable to add people after 50 last night).
For any of you who signed up but did not make it into the call, our apologies for that: we are learning as we go on this platform. We have two offers to make up for that error:
1) Here is the recorded workshop – we will post it in our socials soon, please feel free to share it, and a note that it is unedited! The password to access is: 8R!2Y$1& 
2) We have scheduled another “Wonder of the Honey Bee” online for those that were not able to access last night’s zoom event. The online workshop will be held on June 2nd at 6pm. At this time we ask that only the people that were not able to access the live event last night register for the second workshop. Please register here.
Thanks all!

Survey re Vancouver Community Centres

Dear Patrons,

We hope you are all keeping well during this time.

We know how much you love your community centre programs to keep yourself and your families active, connected, creative, and cared for.

We invite you to participate in a survey.  Your feedback will help inform a restart plan for community centres offerings in the months ahead.

Click *here* to start the survey!

Care about your community? Please consider sharing this survey with your neighbours, friends, and family in Vancouver.

our best wishes,
Dunbar Community Centre Association

Online Pollinator Workshops!

Hello all,

The Dunbar Community Centre, the DCC Beekeeping Club and Hives for Humanity would like to invite you to two online zoom pollinator workshops.  All ages welcome to the first workshop, but the second of these is targeted to children (ages 6-12) and takes place during school hours.

1) Wonder of the Honey Bee: https://hives4humanity_intro2bees.eventbrite.com**

Tue, May 26, 2020
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
**This Neighbourhood Small Grant project was funded by the Vancouver Foundation and administered by Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.
www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca
2) Pollinator Plants and Bees Knees: https://hives4humanity_pollinatorplants.eventbrite.com

Wed, June 3, 2020

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

 

Message from Park Board

March 18, 2020

Dear patrons,
Please see the message below from the Vancouver Park Board.

Good evening,

Further to the information we provided to you earlier this week about the closures of Park Board Community Centres, Fitness Centres, Pools, Ice Rinks, and more, we’d like to assure you that we are working hard to process all program refunds as quickly as possible. We are committed to ensuring anyone who has registered for, or paid for, any of our recreational programming that has been impacted by the closures due to COVID-19 will be receiving a refund. I hope you can understand and appreciate the enormity of this task and that it is taking some time to deliver.
Please rest assured that we are putting our full efforts into processing refunds as quickly as possible. We will be in touch in the near future with more details about how you can expect to receive your refund and the approximate timing.
Thank you for your patronage and for your continued support during this challenging time.
Sincerely,
Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan

The Government of Canada is taking immediate, significant and decisive action to help Canadians facing hardship as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

On March 18, 2020, the Prime Minister announced a new set of economic measures to help stabilize the economy during this challenging period. These measures, delivered as part of the Government of Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan, will provide up to $27 billion in direct support to Canadian workers and businesses.  Click the link below for more information.

Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan

Important Notice from Park Board re facility closures

March 16, 2020

Effective immediately, Park Board facilities will be closed until further notice. This includes pools, fitness centres, ice rinks, golf courses, pitch and putt courses, the Celebration Pavilion at QE park, VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bloedel Conservatory

We are also cancelling and refunding sports field permits, and closing fieldhouse changerooms. The fields will remain open for public users for casual recreation. Public washrooms at parks will remain open and will continue to be serviced.

At this time, child day camps at our community centres will continue for families experiencing pressure with the closure of important services. We will be continuing with enhanced cleaning protocols to mitigate the risk of exposure for children. Parents who withdraw their children will be issued a refund.

We are pleased to be able to offer a flexible refund policy for anyone who has paid for Park Board programming or services that are no longer available during this closure.

We deeply appreciate everyone’s understanding of our need to make these difficult decisions. We know how much our community relies on our programming and facilities but feel these steps are necessary at the current time.

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Cancellation of Salmonberry Days Fair

The priority of the Board and PB staff at present is COVID 19 measures, and following the directives of the City and our health officers.  We want to do our best to ensure the health and safety of our patrons, volunteers, PB staff and Board members and the public.

In light of recent developments regarding COVID-19, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel the Salmonberry Days Fair this year.

We will also be postponing the Patron Appreciation event we have been planning.

We thank you for your understanding.

Squash Courts Notice

The Dunbar squash courts are going to be closed March 18-Apr 3. The court walls will be washed, painted and the floors refinished. Bookings will resume April 4.  Thank you for your understanding!

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