DRA News & Events

*Thursday, Oct 2, 6:30 - 8:30 PM: 16th & Dunbar Facility - Community Meeting #2 re: OMP, Dunbar Community Centre

• Items for discussion:
  • Program Support & Methodology
  • Staffing & Support Services
  • Programs
  • Safety & Security
  Detailed Agenda
• For more information, please visit the 16th & Dunbar web page.

*Monday, Oct 6, 7:30 PM: Federal Election Forum for Vancouver Women Candidates, Hycroft, 1489 McRae Ave near 16th & Granville, sponsord by the University Women's Club of Vancouver

The candidates: Adrienne Carr for the Green Party, Libby Davies for the New Democratic Party and two candidates from the highly contested riding of Vancouver Quadra, Deborah Meredith for the Conservative Party and Joyce Murray for the Liberal Party, will take your questions in a discussion moderated by one of our members, City Councilor, Suzanne Anton.

• Open to members and the public by donation
• Register to attend: 604-731-4661 or email rosie@uwcvancouver.ca.

*Tuesday, Oct 7, 7:30 - 9:30 PM: DRA Board Meeting, Dunbar Community Centre

*Thursday, Oct 9 and Oct 23:  Local Toastmasters Club meeting, St. Faith's Church, 7284 Cypress Street at 57th (on Arbutus bus route), lower floor, parking east of church next to lower entry.  

• Guests & new members welcome.
• No experience necessary.
• Meeting dates for the fall of 2008 are Sept.11th & 25th, Oct. 9th & 23rd, Nov. 6th & 20th, and Dec. 4th & 18th.
• For more information, contact Pat Stone at 604 261 0588 or Allan Welch at 604 318 4466, or email Pat at: pat_stone@telus.net.

*Thursday, Oct 16, 6:30 - 8:30 PM: 16th & Dunbar Facility - Community Meeting #3 re: OMP, Dunbar Community Centre

• Items for discussion:
  • Good Neighbour Practices
  • Neighbourhood Relations - Staff Liaison with Community
  • 24 hr Emergency Response
  • Evaluation

• For more information, please visit the 16th & Dunbar web page.

*Wednesday, Oct 22, 7:00 - 9:00 PM: Mayoralty Candidates Meeting on Affordable Housing, Homelessness and Mental Health, St. Andrews-Wesley United Church, 1022 Nelson Street (corner of Burrard & Nelson, underground parking off alley)

• For more information, contact Bobbie Phillips at events.staw@telus.net or grandy@novuscom.net or phone: 604-862-6826

*Tuesday, Oct 28, 7:30 PM: Dunbar Garden Club, Dunbar Community Centre

• Winterizing Your Garden - Egan Davis, gardener for a number of areas in VanDusen Botanical Garden
• Drop-in fee $3.00

*Wednesday, Oct 29, 7:30 - 9:00 PM: The Langara Dialogues Mayoral Debate #2, Vancouver Public Library, Alice McKay Room, 350 W. Georgia

• The second of two mayoral debates
• For tickets and more information, contact David Berner, Langara College Community Liaison Officer, at 604-323-5771 or email: dberner@langara.bc.ca.

*Thursday, Oct 31, 6:30 - 8:30 PM: 16th & Dunbar Facility - Community Meeting #4 re: OMP, Dunbar Community Centre

• Items for discussion:
  • Community Advisory Committee
• For more information, please visit the 16th & Dunbar web page.

 

SEPT 29 UPDATE

• Program Support and Methodology
• Staffing and Support Services
• Programs
• Safety and Security

Click here for DETAILED AGENDA

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Subsequent meetings and the subject of these meetings will be:

October 16

• Good Neighbour Practices
• Neighbourhood Relations - Staff Liaisons with Community
• 24 Hour emergency response
• Evaluation

October 30

• Community Advisory Committee

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Input gathered at these meetings will be considered by Coast Mental Health in a second draft OMP.

This second draft OMP will be presented at a public meeting on November 20th with another opportunity for public comment.

These comments will also be considered by Coast Mental Health in the development of an Operations Management Plan that will be submitted to the City of Vancouver as part of the conditions for a development permit.

An independent report will be prepared by the facilitator of these meetings documenting all input received and how this input was used in the OMP or why it was not used, as the case may be.

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We've uploaded the Meeting Minutes from the DRA Board of Directors for:

• July 8, 2008

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DRA Newsletter

Residents are encouraged to submit articles for the newsletter. Please email your submission to DRA_Board@shaw.ca. 

The deadline for article submission for the next newsletter (Oct 2008) is Friday, Sept 19. 

Published four times a year:

* February
* April (the Salmonberry Days Calendar)
* June
* Late October (includes November AGM notice)

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Many Dunbar residents enjoy Pacific Spirit Regional Park on a regular basis, so Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS) would like to encourage the large number of park lovers living in Dunbar to become members of the Society.  Our society is a community-based volunteer organization and we represent the public's interest while working with Metro Vancouver Parks.

Membership is free and becoming a member is a great way to keep up-to-date with park events and park issues, and to receive regular information from Metro Vancouver Parks (West Area Office). 

For those individuals who may occasionally have some volunteer time to dedicate to the Park, there are also a number of fun and rewarding volunteer opportunities. 

To learn more about Pacific Spirit Park Society, please visit our web-site - www.pacificspiritparksociety.org.  The link to the membership form is found on the "Get Involved" page of our web-site. 

Your support helps the society to achieve our goal of preserving this precious park in perpetuity for the benefit of all.

Shelagh Dodd
Coordinator of Volunteers - Pacific Spirit Park Society

These are the issues that affect Dunbar in large and small ways. These items will be general descriptions plus lists of reference materials.

If you wish to discuss an item, subscribe and use the Dunbar Neighbours Mailing List.  Get current with these discussions by visiting the Neighbour's Mailing List Archive.

Zoning and Development

• EcoDensity  UPDATED JUN 12
• 41st and Balaclava development  UPDATED FEB22
• 16th and Dunbar development  UPDATED SEPT 29
  
• Orphan Lots
• Board of Variance - Third Party Appeal  UPDATED APR 1
• Queen Elizabeth Park Observation Tower  UPDATED JAN 28

Transportation and Traffic (visit City of Vancouver Transportation website for the latest information)

• Blenheim Street Project
• Ridgeway West Greenway Extension
• 2007 City Bicycle Plan Update

Vancouver School Board

• Proposed closure of Queen Elizabeth Annex and related issues UPDATED JUN 11

Pacific Spirit Park/University Golf Course (visit Friends of Pacific Spirit Park website for the latest information)

• Friends of Pacific Spirit Park
• University Golf Course versus Pacific Spirit Park
• Pacific Spirit Park Society opposes exchange of parkland for University Golf Course in Musqueam settlement

Vandalism

• Damage to our parks by drivers
• Graffiti 

Hi Dunbar Stuart Lake Fraser River  Sockeye lovers!  

Just an update on the progress of this once great run of Fraser River Sockeye. I will slip on my underwater Sockeye glasses and here we go! 

The first Stuart Lake Sockeye Leaders moved into English Bay and off the Middle Arm on the 29th of June and are now waiting for the rest of this year's small run of fish to arrive. The Sockeye Leaders are very nervous as the strong water smells of home are all around them. Near the North Arm and Middle Arm, tides move the Sockeye back and forth in the river Plume. The fish circle and wait for the right time to enter. The big flood tides and the rising canoe moon of July 3rd and 4th move the Sockeye ever closer to the mouth of the river  The Stuart Sockeye staging in English Bay and along Bowen Island also move closer to the smells of fresh water in the North and Middle Arms.

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This is the year with very few Pollinating Mason Bees in our yard but the colorful Wild Bumble Bees are doing a great pollinating job on our many Blueberries bushes.

I watched from my backyard bench as a colony of bumblers set up a hive in one of my Chickadee nestboxes, not to worry as I had another nestbox close by! I watched the bees coming and going, in and out of the Chickadee entrance hole for weeks, then I could only guess that something went seriously wrong in the hive. I thought just maybe the Queen bumbler some how passed away and the colony collapsed. This hive abandonment is common when the queen dies I understand.

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Hi! This is about a great, never to been seen before River event.

I was down at the Fraser River Park on this first day of summer, and observed the "Eagles of Tsusnahm" ambushing a lone Seagull flying up River.

Their nest site is in a grove of trees on Marine Drive, near Angus, and still has young in it today. The seagulls and ducks better beware, for the hunting for the little food sources available for the now hungry young eagles, continues each morning. The daily river Eagle hunt can be observed, in the morning hours, from the wooden river pier about in the middle of the Park. With no Eulachon returning to the North & Middle Arms and just a few ducks around, all that is left in the river is a few non-nesting and lonely Seagulls.

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