2008 Features

Listed below is an archive of featured stories spotlighted on the Park Board's home page in the 'feature boxes' section. These four boxes accentuate timely activities, events and other information of interest to the public.

The Park Board website maintains its "freshness" by changing the home page feature boxes on a weekly basis to reflect the events and highlights of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

Poinsettia Paradise!

December 16, 2008 - A seasonal outing to Bloedel Conservatory is well a visit to view the lush and colourful poinsettia displays ...

Holiday craft sales at your local community centre

November 12, 2008 - A handmade gift can be the perfect choice for your hard to please friends and relatives ...

Remembrance Day 2008

November 7, 2008 - Take part in a Remembrance Day service being held in a number of parks in Vancouver ...

The Seawall in Fall

November 4, 2008 - The crowds are gone and the last of the autumn colours are still on the trees. What better time to take a stroll around the Stanley Park seawall and enjoy Vancouver's most popular walk on a crisp and blustery fall day ...

Two school gyms open for Get Up & Go activities this Fall

October 1, 2008 - Get Up & Go! is a physical activity partnership between selected Vancouver schools and community centres, to help keep you active despite the weather...

Active Communities: Take a walk around one of Vancouver's 2010 venues

September 29, 2008 - Watch the 2010 Winter Games venues take shape as construction is underway while staying active and getting fit...

Pitch & Putt - A fun and affordable way to enjoy the links

September 18, 2008 - Pitch & Putt is a kinder, gentler and shorter way to enjoy 18 holes of golf...

Two outdoor pools still open. Visit Kits or Second Beach seaside pools, but hurry!

September 2, 2008 - Don't let back to school fool you into thinking summer's over. Take a dip in one of Vancouver's two beautiful and scenic seaside...

Enjoy the Lingering Glories of a Gorgeous Summer Garden In the Stanley Park

August 25, 2008 - Tucked into a three hectare corner of Stanley Park just off Pipeline Road where one finds the park's historic Rose Garden, visitors can indulge their senses with the scent of chocolate cosmos and discover a delightful "river" of echeveria...

Pitch & Putt - A fun and affordable way to enjoy the links

August 18, 2008 - Pitch & Putt is a kinder, gentler and shorter way to enjoy 18 holes of golf. The Vancouver Park Board operates three Par 3 18-hole pitch & putt golf courses, one in each major sector of the city.

Go Play! Drop in to one of 11 fitness centres and work out for just $2

July 28, 2008 - Park Board-operated fitness centres around the city are offering a special "toonie tune up" August 1 to 15 as part of its Go Play! campaign. Anyone who drops in to one of these fitness centres pays just $2 and inclues an orientation session with a friendly and fully certified staff person.

Hydrangea Heaven

July 28, 2008 - Of all the shrubs one could plant, the glorious and many coloured hydrangea is one of the most popular and best choices. Extremely forgiving in both dry and wet climates, this stalwart species can even survive on a windy shoreline or beachfront when all other best bets have turned up their toes in the face of unrelenting salt-filled breezes...

77th Everyday Champions Stanley Park Open

July 14, 2008 - North America's largest community tennis event...

Dive into one of our outdoor pools

July 8, 2008 - Now that summer's finally here what better way to spend time with family and friends and keep cool than a visit to one of the Park Board's great outdoor pools...

Stanley Park Open During Triathlon World Championships

May 29, 2008 - Stanley Park will be 'open for business' during the upcoming Vancouver Triathlon World Championships taking place from June 5th to June 8th...

VanDusen's Laburnum Walk

May 26, 2008 - As the seasons unfold about us there are definitely some starring attractions that are keenly anticipated. At the Vancouver Park Board's VanDusen Botanical Garden now, and over the next two weeks, the glorious Laburnum Walk is in full-force bloom much to the delight of visitors...

Bloedel Floral Conservatory

April 28, 2008 - "April showers bring spring flowers" the old saying goes and this April seems to be a particularly web one! But while we're waiting for the arrival of those warm sunny days, escape to a tropical paradise in beautiful QE Park...

Walking in the Magnolias

March 31, 2008 - Spring is coming a little later this year and so some of the floweing magnolias near the Beach Avenue entrance to Stanley Park are only first beginning to bloom...

Dive into Killarney Pool

March 10, 2008 - Killarney Swimming Pool, which opened in 2006, is Vancouver's only destination leisure aquatic facility. It serves Vancouver residents with convenient, public swim hours offered all day long...

Snowdrops and Snowflakes

February 18, 2008 - This year, small scenic vignettes are taking us by surprise. We are only slowly awakening from dark days of hibernation but as each morning dawns brighter our collective hearts quicken a little more, beat by beat, snowdrop by snowdrop...

Parks & Hearts: Great Locations for Valentine's Day Dinners

February 4, 2008 - What better way to celebrate heart day than in one of the Vancouver Park Board's perfectly located establishments operated by some of the city's finest restaurateurs? If you have been waiting for out of town visitors to smell the roses, scan the city skyline or overlook one of English Bay's best sunsets - wait no more!...

Sledding in Style

January 29, 2008 - It's not often, but when it snows enough in Vancouver to dust off the toboggan, sled or flying saucer we are inevitably drawn to the hilly points in our fair city ...

Wondrous Witch Hazels

January 28, 2008 - Some people might think that the winter landscape is devoid of bloom and scent but they would be in for a pleasant surprise. Now is the peak blooming time for the witch hazel clan with their often heavily scented fright-wig flowers ...

Knit One, Purl Two

January 21, 2008 - One of the oldest known hand crafts, the art of knitting is taking a new generation by storm. Once bone, metal or wood took the place of modern plastic needles in this art that is thought to have had its start in Persia thousands of years ago ...

Reading the Parks' Plaques - History Revealed

January 21, 2008 - Winter is the perfect time to visit Stanley Park when the crush of tourists has evaporated with the chill of the season. It's the best time to look beyond the buddding trees and shrubs of spring or lush colourful floral displays of summer and view the real "bones" of the park ...

Seawall Birding

January 2, 2008 - It's at this time of year, when rain and wind are constant companions to walkers on the Stanley Park seawall, that over-wintering birds populate the shoreline and capture your heart. From the Inukshuk groin on English Bay to Third Beach several visiting waterfowl species can be easily spied just meters off in the salt chuck as they dive and bob for marine vegetation ...

Fitness First - Make Health a Habit!

January 2, 2008 - We've all made the ubiquitous New Year's resolutions to get in better shape. And though we have not always kept up the momentum in carrying out our objectives, there is always another opportunity to reset goals and start afresh ...

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