A10 The Delta Optimist March 8, 2017
Community
Rain Day celebrates our natural resource
Looking for something to do with the kids during Spring Break? If so, grab your gumboots and splash on down to the Earthwise Garden on Saturday, March 18 for the Earthwise Society’s third annual Rain Day. The free, family-friendly event celebrates our often unwelcome but always precious natural resource — rain — with a range of activities designed to get everyone’s boots wet. Fun meets learning on Rain Day, with entertainment featuring the Ta Daa Lady’s Rain Show. Kids and adults will have a chance to show off their fanciest or silliest rain gear, umbrellas and gumboots in an exuberant Rain Day Parade through the garden. The event includes a Rain Day Music Corner where kids can hone their
musical abilities and dance off their energy in an interactive dance in the Earthwise Garden’s rustic swallow barn. Kids and adults can also create their own rain sticks and use them for special sound effects during the puddle stomping parade. Lots of other creative Rain Day crafts will be on offer to get everyone thinking good thoughts about all this rain. Adults can take a look at Earthwise Society’s three rain gardens on site that demonstrate some of the creative and beautiful ways that home landscapes can help conserve water. Earthwise horticulturists will be on hand to answer questions about incorporating rain gardens into home landscapes. The event will showcase entries to the Earthwise Rain Sculpture contest.
Visitors can wander through the garden, vote for their favourite sculpture and then finish their artistic explorations with a water-themed photography display from local artists. “Rain is such an integral part of our coastal temperate rainforest home, but we rarely give it the appreciation it deserves,” says Cait Murphy, communications coordinator at Earthwise Society. “Our Rain Day celebration wants to get people thinking about how we can all conserve water.” Rain or shine, Rain Day will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Earthwise Garden, 6400-3rd Ave. in Boundary Bay. To raise awareness of the event, Earthwise is hosting an Instagram contest under the hashtag #Fall4theRain. Post a
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Participants can take part in the Rain Day Parade through the Earthwise Garden. picture of people having fun in the rain and tag @earthwisesociety and #Fall4theRain for a chance to win Camino chocolates. For the full Rain Day
schedule, check out www. earthwisesociety.bc.ca or Earthwise’s Rain Day event page on Facebook. Those interested in participating in the Rain
Sculpture contest or who would like to volunteer can contact Corinne at education@earthwisesociety.bc.ca or at 604-9469828.
Chief to address Probus Club
Harpist provides music at All Saints Taize services
Delta police Chief Neil Dubord will be the guest speaker at a Probus Club of South Delta meeting next Wednesday. The group is a nonprofit, fellowship club for retired and semi-retired professional and business people. Dubord will provide an overview of issues and advice that will be of particular interest to the sen-
ior population in Delta. He’s also expected to talk about how Delta police can track fleeing vehicles with GPS darts with the department’s new StarChase Pursuit Management Technology. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 15 at 9:30 a.m. at the Coast Tsawwassen Inn. Guests are welcome at the free event.
Divorce Care provides support
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Local harpist Judy Henry will be providing music at All Saints Anglican Church’s Taize services for Lent. Taize is an ecumenical (multi-faith or no faith) service of music and meditation. These services take place on Fridays from March 10 to April 7 at 7 p.m. at the church, 4755 Arthur Dr., Ladner.
Recovery from separation or divorce is overwhelming on your own, but Divorce Care takes the isolation out of the process by providing support, tools and teaching for anyone struggling during this difficult time. The Divorce Care program offers a safe place for people to learn how to deal with many of the demands and emotions a
separation or divorce can throw at a person. Divorce Care seminars will take place every Thursday for 13 weeks beginning March 9. They will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Little House, 5061-12th Ave., Tsawwassen. Register at divorcecare. org or contact wgnrjl@ gmail.com of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.
Guests get talking at Toastmasters
The AmbassadorsTsawwassen Toastmasters welcomed 19 guests to a recent open house at the Rose and Crown Pub that featured a trio of inspiring speeches. Barb Westlake kicked off the speeches by roasting fellow club member Tim Ernst, admiringly accusing him of being a master wordsmith because of the precise words he uses when crafting speeches,
while sergeant-at-arms Wes Arnold urged people to break through their selfimposed ceilings. Margaret Page shared her personal story of running a successful hair salon chain in Las Vegas, but the year her chain became number one, she did not have enough courage to speak in front of 1,700 delegates. Page vowed to join Toastmasters to learn
how to public speak and she has never looked back. She skillfully demonstrated that all speaking is public speaking as she encouraged guests to join Toastmasters and Toastmasters to aim higher. Table topics focused on pubs and pub culture around the world, while grammarian for the evening, new member Vlad Buchynskyy, put all to the
test by trying to incorporate “troglodyte” into speeches and table topics. The AmbassadorsTsawwassen Toastmasters meet every second and fourth Tuesday in the gym at St. David’s Church in Tsawwassen from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information, contact Lisanne Guertin at Lisanneg@telus.net or Karen Taipalus at karentaipalus@gmail.com.
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The Ambassadors-Tsawwassen Toastmasters hosted a recent open house at the Rose and Crown Pub.