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New Westminster, BC – New Westminster City Council has approved a two-year organizational pilot project and strategy to address the overlapping crises of homelessness, mental health, and substance use. The pilot will focus on increasing immediate supports with the long-term goal of transitioning responsibility to senior levels of government.

The project is based on promising practices and lessons learned from other municipalities with the objective of advancing proactive, resilient and strategic organizational approaches that can be sustained long-term. The project will involve three inter-departmental staff teams which include:

• Crises Response Team – a new grouping of staff responsible for day-to-day crisis coordination and response, including outreach and support, addressing community requests, case management services, and providing referrals to Provincial teams.
• Operations Support Team - a group of existing City staff from engineering, fire, human resources, integrated se

Blatantly stolen from https://newwestanchor.com/

Friday, Sept. 22

• Dance party. 9pm. Georgie’s Local.

Saturday, Sept. 23

• RiverFest. 10am. New West boardwalk.
• Dance party. 9pm. Georgie’s Local.
• MEASURE. Including an opening reception and artists’ talks. 1pm. New Media Gallery.
• Jazz Cats Social. 6:30pm. 620 8th St.
• Mushtari Begum Festival. 7pm. Massey Theatre.
• Salsa in the Park. 7:30pm. Pier Park.

Sunday, Sept. 24

• RiverFest guided tours. 10am. Various locations.
• Queensborough’s 13th annual shoreline clean-up. 10am. Thompson’s Landing Park.
• Boho fashion sale. Noon. 1245 Quayside Dr.
• Concert in the Park. Featuring Quayside Voices. 1pm. Upper Hume Park.

Monday, Sept. 25

• Boho fashion sale. 2pm. 1245 Quayside Dr.
• Poker night. 6:30pm. Sapperton District Taphouse.
• Open mic night. 7pm. Begbie’s.
• Trivia night. 8pm. The Terminal Pub.

Tuesday, Sept. 26

• Boho fashion sale. 2pm. 1245 Quayside Dr.
• WorkBC workshop. 4pm. Queensborough Community Centre.
• Open mic:

I'll try my best to wake it up......

I LOVE public art and New West has more than its fair share of it.

This is one that I'd missed, even though it's been in place for 6 months on the outside of the Anvil Centre: https://imgur.com/a/u142dWA

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**Rebecca Bair
Curl Mapped, 2023**
(b. 1995, Toronto, ON, Canada;
lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Anvil Centre Public Art Project
April 2023 - March 2024
Curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Capture Photography Festival



  

Commissioned by the City of New Westminster, this temporary public art installation is presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival

Situated on the façade of the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, Rebecca Bair's site-specific installation, Curl Mapped, tackles the complex, colonial history of archives to represent that which is absent: traces of Black settlers in this region. Bair spent significant time in the city archives poring over the leather-bound ledgers, reading the handwritten notes, and examining the photographs therein only to discover

TLDR - Stay cool at these locations

Century House - 620 Eighth Street | 604-519-1066 Extended hours Monday, Aug. 14 to Thursday, Aug. 17: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm

Queensborough Community Centre - 920 Ewen Avenue | 604-525-7388

New Westminster Public Library - 716 Sixth Avenue | 604-527-4660

Anvil Centre - 777 Columbia Street | 604-515-3830

Starting today, take part in activities celebrating diversity, inclusion, and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Find activities at newwestcity.ca/pride-week. Highlights include:

• Pride Painters (11 - 18 years) tonight
• Trans, Gender Diverse, & Two-Spirit Inclusive Swim (TGD2SQ) (All Ages) on Aug. 12
• Music by the River - Pride Edition on Aug. 16

Pride Week in New Westminster is presented by New Westminster Pride Society with community partners and local businesses and runs Thursday, Aug. 10 to Sunday, Aug. 19. Find out more about the variety of events taking place during New West Pride Week at newwestpride.ca.

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This Saturday will be Car Free Day. Columbia St shutdown for "live music, food trucks, site-wide liquor license, and more!"

Date: Saturday, July 29 Located: Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC Time: Noon - 8 pm

Always a lot of fun... this is what the food truck festival morphed into (which is probably a good thing because the food truck festival had grown to a ridiculous size).

Core details including the bands playing on https://www.carfree.ca/new-west

More details on https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/get-ready-to-enter-a-pedestrian-paradise-new-wests-car-free-day-is-back-7322081 (including that there's going to be a bike valet this year)

https://12thstreet.ca/

Sun, July 23rd 11:30am~5:00pm

Three Stages of Live Music Fun For The Kids and FOOD FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

12th Street Fest New West Entertainment Schedule

Metrotown Mitsubishi Community Stage @ Hamilton & 12th

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        11:30 Blue Express
        Homegrown New Westminster Blues
    12:30 ROOTS Peruvian Folk Dance
        Exciting, Colourful, Traditional Folk Dance from Peru!
    1:00 The Sweet P’s
        Patsy Thompson & Pamela Dominelli deliver soulful roots and blues
    2:00 ROOTS Peruvian Folk Dance
        Exciting, Colourful, Traditional Folk Dance from Peru!
     2:30 Arsen Shomakhov
        Explosive Electric Guitar Blues from one of Vancouver’s finest
     4:00 James “Buddy” Rogers
        Juno Nominated Blues Artist delivers the festival’s Blues Finale!!!


  

Seventh Avenue Stage @7th Ave & 12th

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        11:30 The Neil Douglas School of Music
        New West’s premier music school takes the stage
    1:00 Ed, Salve and Friends
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There's no time to relax after week #2 of Fridays on Front - the fun never stops in New West in the summer...

Uptown Live today, Saturday July 15 from Noon - 8:00 PM - uptown New West.

Lots of food trucks, lots of bands, lots of vendors.

Schedule, artists, vendors etc here: https://www.uptownlive.ca/schedule-1

I'm especially looking forward to hearing Ayla Tesler-Mabé - that woman sure knows her way around a guitar but there doesn't appear to be anything she can't do.

Arts New West (what used to be known as the Arts Council of New West) is putting on a series of free concerts at the bandshell in Queen's Park.

Every Thursday at 7pm and every Sunday at 2pm (apparently with a break in the middle...??) until the end of July.

Go take a picnic (and even a beer if you like) and enjoy free good times. Maybe see ya there.

More details on their FB or their website https://artscouncilnewwest.org/concertseries/

Drop by Moody Park to celebrate cycling as a fun activity, a mode of transportation, something to do with your family, a way to get exercise, and to connect with others who love cycling and want to share with the community!

There's also an E-Bike Share Feasibility Study here: https://www.beheardnewwest.ca/e-bike-share

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/268547

"The school board says Beattie has decided to take medical leave. According to school board chair Maya Russell the board does not have the ability to remove a trustee in this case under the School Act, but are requesting she resign immediately."

Does she think she will be able to come back to her job after this?

This Saturday from 11AM to 2PM - official opening of the Agnes St Greenway. We rode it the other day & it's looking lovely. Lots of nice touches - the planting as usual in New West and the doggy exercise yard.

Got in a coffee hat trick this afternoon.

#1

rode into town past the brand-new-just-opened-today-but-not-really coffee shop on 6th - Coasters Coffee. (As far as I can work out they had a ribbon-cutting with the Mayor etc today (Photo: New West Chamber of Commerce) but had a grand opening in March). https://www.instagram.com/coasterscoffeeshop

#2

got coffee & nibbles in Craft Cafe down on the Quay. Always good coffee and I managed to avoid buying any of the fancy coffee gadgets they have for sale. https://www.instagram.com/craftcafe.ca/

#3

In Craft C

After a long “COVID pause”, the RA is back! The meeting is on June 20th at the library. Please share and RSVP. Hope to see you there!

Also, thank you to all who have reached out about participating. We are still looking for members who are willing to be named to the board.