The streets are empty. Everybody is at home watching the Vancouver Calgary hockey game. Looks like the weather will be good for tomorrow's Sun Run.
Two more cool photos: this time from My Heart Bleeds. A dragon and the Chan Centre.
Spotted on firstpages. A beautiful wall of tea photo from Vancouver Chinatown.
I attended the Farm Folk/City Folk 10th Anniversary event tonight.
It was fantastic! Having just moved back to Vancouver, it was great to experience such local enthusiasm and involvement in food and food policy issues.
And the food
The oh-so-changeable Vancouver weather never ceases to amaze me. Not having grown up so close to the mountains and the ocean, the volatility of the weather here is a constant source of puzzlement! Today was dreary in the morning and early afternoon and then sunny in the early evening. This kind of thing happens regularly!
Andrea Reimer, a Vancouver School Board trustee, posts in her weblog about her decision to vote for this year's school board budget, and says she did so with a heavy heart:
And the very cold and stark reality is that no matter how I voted on the budget, I can't protect kids in Vancouver from cuts that will really, really hurt. Even if I were the deciding vote the province simply fires us, installs a political appointee and makes cuts anyway. Given that they cut $3 million directly out of inner city funding for the most vulnerable kids in the city, given that they cut all funding for special needs high incidence behaviour kids, given that they cut funding for gifted education, I have to believe that whoever they appoint would be making those very terrible, terrible cuts.
Later in the weblog entry she is hopeful that funding can be restored to levels that will deliver the services she and the Vancouver Green Party (of which she is a member) aspire for Vancouver schoolchildren.
Check out the Sun Run 2004 Road Closures
Because I don't have any faith in canada.com (their URLs are subject to bit rot), I have copied the road closures info to our site. Click on the three dots or "read more" to get all the details.
I grew up in the country. So it always amazes me to see the widgets (such as pavement cutters and street cleaning equipment) that are part of keeping a modern big city humming. Thanks to Derek for letting me know that this is a pavement cutter not a street cleaning machine as I had erroneously written previously.
everything and nothing and other works from the ongoing video installation, untitled, 1999-2004
Reception upstairs in the Lux.
Exhibition continues until Fri. May 21, 2004
Regular gallery hrs: Tues-Sat 12-5
(via Flickr: Vancouver and William Bragg)
A bit of red to liven up a yet another dreary cool Vancouver spring day. I am not into cars or trucks, but I admire the engineering that goes into them and the Chevrolet SSR is a cool looking (if a bit macho for my tastes) example of good engineering.
