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Join the Choir (or not!)
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Yule Duel, British Columbia’s largest outdoor caroling competition has returned to Gastown! I heard about it for the first time last year after friends of mine talked about “singing Christmas Carols for a cause”. A previous commitment prevented me from going but I wasn’t about to miss it again this…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
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Can you hear it? The sleigh bells and classic holiday tunes in the distance….. I know … technically, this magical time of the year is all about children but for me it goes beyond that. As an event planner, the holiday season is all about organizing and attending the best…
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Celebrating the unsung heroes
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One could think, considering the date, that this blog post is about with the brave men and women who have served in the wars and who don’t make the headlines. In truth as I write I am thinking about the recent event, the Women’s Collaborative Hub (WCH) where ‘unsung heroes’ was an appropriate…
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A tour worth taking
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Friday Sept 29 was the discovery of Metro Vancouver’s summer Asian food destination, the Richmond Night Market. Hundreds of different street-style gourmet eats, which included everything from classic dim sum to Asian-style tacos, bubble tea, K–yangneom to deep fried cheesecake, and much more. Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, has a very large Asian population…
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Footwear can be so much more than it’s basic function
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On Wednesday July 12th, I attended the first annual Ruben’s Summer Social at Orrange Restaurant and Bar, an event which helped Ruben’s Shoes meet their fundraising goal of $16,000. The money raised goes straight to the operations of Centro Educativo Toribio in the Dominican Republic which provides education to over 160 students…