The Semiahmoo Peninsula

where you can vacation - and be home the same day

 

Echo & Foxy are the names the two baby eaglets have earned from regular observers of the Ocean Park eagle nest.

(see this wonder of nature live)

 

 

Weekend Update

It is the 25th Anniversary of the Rick Hansen Wheels In Motion

This weekend the anniversary tour makes stops in Fleetwood and White Rock. RICK HANSEN will be in attendance at the White Rock event.

Canada's Second Largest Rodeo the Cloverdale Rodeo is on this weekend.

(events guide)

 

 

Local News

We're Disappointed

Yesterday the BC legislative committee on cosmetic pesticides released a report calling for weak restrictions on lawn and garden pesticies. If these recommendations become law they will not protect BC children from being exposed to unnecessary chemicals and possible carcinogens. The report has been slow in coming and is weak in content. Pesticide BC and the BC Cancer Soceity will continue to advocate for a Pesticide Free BC.
What can you do? (click here)

Now up to premier, who earlier promised a ban, and cabinet to make final decision. (read more)

Tell your MLA to please don't support this report's passage.

Gordon Hogg

Kevin Falcon

Stephanie Cadieux

 

Every Week Should Be Drinking Water Week

BC Water & Waste Association and the Province of BC have proclaimed Drinking Water Week from May 13 - 19, 2012. We invite you to celebrate this exciting week by taking time to learn more about your water and how you can protect and conserve it. Interestng to note a number of regions and cities across British Columbia have signed on to promote preserving drinking water. Conspicuous by their absence is White Rock & Surrey.

(more information)

 

Partial Eclipse Of The Sun

The first eclipse of the year this weekend! Although Canada won't see a full annular eclipse, most of the country from northern Quebec westward will see a deep partial. The farther south and west you are, the bigger the "bite" that the Moon will take from the sun The Lower Mainland will witness a maximum 80 per cent partially eclipsed sun right around 6:15 p.m. local time. Right in the middle of the big Rick Hansen Party in uptown White Rock.

 

Mayors Meeting In Penticton

“BC’s municipalities need a new deal with the provincial and federal governments to provide the services our constituents expect. The current model is broken and as Mayors we need to meet to discuss a collaborative approach to reversing the unsustainable trend that most municipalities are facing." Mayor Dianne Watts, Surrey (read the whole story)

 

Beware Of Internet Con Man

RCMP are issuing a warning regarding a local business being ripped off by a man offering to build them a web site. (details)

 

Real Estate

Adam Smith looks forward and glances back on real estate news on the Semiahmoo Peninsula. This week a walkabout through Amble Green. Who says you can't go home?

(click here)

 

Night Owl

Tonight BLUE FROG recording studio and soundstage proudly present CARLOS DEL JUNCO with special guest RICK FINES. There are a few tickets left. Order here

(your weekend entertainment guide)

What do you mean TROOPER is not in the Canadian music hall of fame. Sign the petition

CISL 650 DJ's Stirling Faux and Red Robinson along with media maven Joe Leary have joined the movement we started

 

Coming Events

Tomorrow

25th Anniversary of The Man In Motion Comes To Our City By The Sea

It is going to be a big party when RICK HANSEN wheels into White Rock Saturday afternoon. A true Canadian hero is looking forward to meeting all his friends in Our City By The Sea (more info)

 

 

TNT The Naked Truth

It's getting harder and harder for DON "Pitbull" PITCAIRN to remain humble. PITCAIRN tries to curb his enthusiasm for safety changes he was instrumental in bringing to the Semiamhoo Peninsula. (details)

 

Chesney's Chestnuts

A truck driver was heading down HWY 99 and saw a road sign that said "Low Bridge Ahead." Before he could react he was right at the bridge and got stuck under it. Cars backed up all the way to the Peace Arch. Finally an RCMP Freeway Patrol car arrived. The cop gets out of his car and walks around to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got Stuck huh?" The truck driver looked at him, shook his head and said "NO I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."

 

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