You people sure get up to interesting things on weekends.
And that is great for the Courier, otherwise this City Living feature, which ventures out to explore your worlds almost every Saturday and Sunday throughout the year, would not exist.听
And that is great for the Courier, otherwise this City Living feature, which ventures out to explore your worlds almost every Saturday and Sunday throughout the year, would not exist.听
As another year closes, we opened the archives to look at some of the highlights of the weekends of 2015.
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Having a ball
March 21 marked the second time an official snowball fight happened in Vancouver. A game of yukigassen is described as being a mix of capture the flag, dodgeball, hide and seek and touch football where two teams huck synthetic snowballs at one another on a court, or in this case, the bare concrete of the Robson Square skating rink.
Yukigassen started in Japan 20 years ago and has its own international federation. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a game that feels very Canadian,鈥� said Nathania Lo, a member of the 2014 championship team Snowball Patrol. 鈥淚t brings back the kid in a person, too.鈥�
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Zip it
The most-read City Living feature covered the temporary Queen Elizabeth zipline, which officially opened July 4.
The zipline was controversial; some loved the idea of flying over the gardens while others did not want to see the privatization of public space. Others, such as Rob Hicks, an employee with Greenheart International Development Corp. 鈥� the company responsible for building and running the zipline 鈥� were more concerned about ensuring brides did not flash those down below.
鈥淟ots of experience with the wedding dresses, maybe 100 of them,鈥� said Hicks. 鈥淵ou know, you just got married and you have a beautiful woman and you don鈥檛 want to be giving everybody else a peep show.鈥�
The zipline raised $47,175 for the park board, which helped fund maintenance of parks across the city.
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Empire loyalists听
Speaking of parks, City Living also went to the grand re-opening of the Empire Fields July 18. The city did a beautiful job of the park, with its two synthetic turf-playing fields, a running track, basketball and beach volleyball courts, a parkour park, ping pong tables, gym and children鈥檚 play area.
Nice to see especially given the grounds鈥� storied history; when Empire Stadium opened for the British Empire and Commonwealth Games July 30, 1954, it was the largest sports facility in the country.
The stadium鈥檚 glory years included Roger Bannister and John Landy breaking the four-minute mile at the 鈥�54 Games in the first televised sports event broadcast live to all of North America, as well as a tour stop for Elvis in 鈥�57 and the Beatles in 鈥�64.
Grizzlies sighting听
History was very much present when the Toronto Raptors rolled into Rogers Arena to take on the Los Angeles Clippers in a preseason NBA stop, Oct. 4.
Hordes of 麻豆传媒映画fans wore the teal green jerseys of the 麻豆传媒映画Grizzlies, a team that lasted six years here before moving to Memphis, Tenn. for the 2001-02 season.听
鈥淲e want to show 麻豆传媒映画can support another team,鈥� said fan Vishal Lekhi who rounded up 20 friends to attend the game. 鈥淲e are ready! 麻豆传媒映画is ready!鈥�
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