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First Peoples celebrated at museum event
Children can foster a finer appreciation of the First Peoples in B.C. by making their own totem pole, drawing animal symbols and even using their teeth to make birch bark art. Royal B.C. Museum’s next Wonder Sunday event will celebrate many aspects of First Nation life. The showcase will also feature storytelling and demonstrations on drumand moccasin-making. Find out what life was like in a pit house. The closing ceremonies will include dancing. Pre-registration is not required. The event happens Sunday (Feb. 26), from 1 to 3 p.m., and cost is included with museum admission or membership. Please visit www.royalbcmuseum. bc.ca for details.
City pedicab licence numbers scaled back
the Maritime Museum of B.C. on Friday, March 16 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., enjoy an evening of song, dance and refreshments as they take you to the Emerald Shore with Cookeilidh and special guests, the O’Connor O’Brien Irish Dancers. Set in the museum’s beautifully restored 19th century courtroom, Music from the Shamrock Shore; A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration will delight all ages and have everyone feeling a little Irish. Doors open at 7 p.m., tickets can be purchased in advance in the Crow’s Nest gift shop of the Maritime Museum. Cost is $12; $10 for MMBC members; students and seniors and children 12 and under are free. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 250-385-4222 or go to mmbc.bc.ca.
After negative reaction from the industry, council scaled back its proposal to increase the number of pedicab licences available from 28 to 75. Coun. Lisa Helps amended her original motion, setting a new cap at 30 licences. Under the new vehicle-for-hire bylaw, the city will now hold a requestfor-proposals to allocate pedicab licences as they become available. Council deemed this process preferable to a lottery system to award licences.
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