You're Invited!

Seniors Transportation: Affordable, Accessible and Appropriate Report Meeting on May 10th, 2018

B.C. Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, invites you to attend the release of her office’s transportation review report.

Thursday May 10th, 2018
10:30am-11:30am
Croatian Cultural Centre
3250 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC
- google map

Parking is available at the Centre in addition to street parking nearby just north
of the centre under the Skytrain line or on Commercial Drive.

Transit: Broadway Commercial Skytrain terminal is the closest stop with a 10-min walk south along commercial to the venue or the #20 Victoria bus with its closest stop being a 5-min walk to the cultural centre.

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP Yvette Marquis at
yvette.marquis@gov.bc.ca

Spaces are limited so please RSVP as soon as possible.

Teleconference: If you are unable to attend in person but interested in participating via teleconference, please dial the number below prior to 10:30am and enter the participant ID when requested to do so.

• Dial in numbers: 604-681-0260 (local Vancouver)
• 1-877-353-9184 (elsewhere in Canada and USA)
• Participant pass code: 45832#

We will also be posting the Seniors Advocate’s presentation on our website at www.seniorsadvocatebc.ca

Following the presentation, media attending the event in person and online will
be given the opportunity to ask questions first, followed by the general public.

Should you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact the Office of the Seniors
Advocate. We look forward to seeing you at this important event.
www.seniorsadvocatebc.ca

TransLink Notice:
There is a change in the HandyDART Service Provider
 
Starting July 1, 2018, TransLink is changing the HandyDART service provider from MVT to First Canada.
 
According to Kevin Desmond, CEO of TransLink, in addition to this new partnership, TransLink is planning to improve the HandyDART service by:

• expanding HandyDART service by more than 170,000 trips by 2019 (a 15% increase in number of trips over 2016)
• adding 13 new HandyDART vehicles this year and a further 10 vehicles in 2019
• making it easier for customers to arrange next-day trips by extending the booking window from 12pm to 4pm
• improving the customer-feedback process by moving it in-house
• improving transparency by adding HandyDART information to the Accountability Centre on translink.ca

 
If you have any questions about HandyDART, please contact the Access Transit Customer Care Team at 604-953-3680.

Come Celebrate Earth Day in South Vancouver


@ EVERETT CROWLEY PARK
​- google map

Saturday April 21st - more info
11am– 3pm - Rewilding and Renewing our Urban Forest Community planting of flowering native shrubs for pollinating insects Interpretive walks.

Become a Park Steward, Junior Ranger, & Urban Forest Educator Meet friends and neighbours, enjoy the Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers and free refeshments

@ CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY CENTRE
- google map

Sunday April 22nd - More info
10:30am to 3:30pm - Celebrate, plan and co-design with neighbours and friends Champlain Heights’ new Community Gardens. Free refreshments. 

• More info about Earth Day Weekend here
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Join us and your community for an awesome afternoon of live music, rides, inflatables, face painting, community booths, BBQ Food on the Go food truck, and artisan sales.

​There’s stuff for the adults and the kids
and everyone in between.

Please walk or car pool as parking is limited.

@ Champlain Heights Community Centre
3350 Maquinna Drive, Vancouver, BC
- google map

Saturday June 2, 2018
11:00 am-3:00 pm
Free
- More info here
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