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Autumn Shift Festival 2012 by Mount Pleasant BIA (MPBIA)
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Back by popular demand, the MPBIA is ecstatic to host its 3rd Annual Autumn Shift Festival from noon to 6 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012.
The Autumn Shift Festival reflects the shift in season as well as the on-going shift in our community’s attitude towards embracing sustainability, eating locally, and indulging in urban gardening; all which create the theme for the interactive booths, children’s activities, and street shows, including The Beaumont Studios stage at Main and Broadway featuring some of Vancouver’s hottest DJs, bands and performers.
The MPBIA’s Autumn Shift Festival is a family-friendly street party with great music, fabulous food, fun and free children’s activities, and the chance to meet and mingle with MPBIA friends, neighbours, and business owners.
Fun and themed booths include the Telus World of Science, David Suzuki Foundation, Translink, Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver Giants, BC Hydro, Fortis, Brewery Creek Community Gardens, Kensington Gardens, Fresh Roots Urban Farm, Raw Foods, Habitat for Humanity, The world in a Garden, Garden Works, Bullfrog Power, Sustainable Produce, Backyard Bounty, Mount Pleasant Elementary, Fresh Roots Urban Farm and Yummy Yards.
Other awesome booths to look forward to including Kingsway Honda, The Association of Neighbourhood Houses, Exhibit Apparel, Dulux Paints, National Money Mart, The Archetype, Lucy’s Eastside Diner, Genesis Nutrition, Cobs Bread, Tom Harris Cellular, French Made Bakery, Pallucci Furniture, Bird on a Wire Creations, Mount Pleasant branch – Vancouver Public Library,The Cascade Room, Pacific Angler, Society of St. Vincent de Paul Value Shoppe, Open Door Yoga, The Three Jewels Vancouver Society, just yoga, and Acumama’s Acupuncture.
Vancouver Tap Dance Studio dancers put on a great show!
Cute children hula hooping
Dancing in the streets
Last song of Autumn Shift Festival at the Beaumont stage
Mad Dogg of WoodSquat 2002 speaks on WoodSquat 2012 – 10th Anniversary in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Ten years ago Vancouver’s most famous squat kicked off and impacted the future of the Downtown Eastside. An open community exhibition, screening and dialogue series marks the anniversary and questions the legacy of the autonomous direct action housing initiative over 92 day starting September 15, 2002.
Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA and Mad Dogg, one of the original Woodwards Squatters share their reflections and stories 10 years today on Sept 12, 2012
Ron and Dianne Reyes 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary in Vancouver
Congratulations to Ron and Dianne Reyes on their special 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary in Vancouver!
May you always have love, music and magic in your lives! 🙂
Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA with Dianne and Ron Reyes on their 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary!
A shared kiss every time the word “Love” is mentioned or sung! 🙂
PNE – Pacific National Exhibition 2012
Peter of AHA MEDIA says
The PNE, a great institution older than most people in Vancouver. Last weekend I went there with a friend to enjoy the sights (didnt get a ride pass, I get sick on those) and eat those little doughnuts!
We started off eating some food, trying a Deep Fried Mars Bar, sumptuous chicken from Henry’s BBQ, and popcorn shrimp. Great food!
Next was the world-famous Superdogs. From dancing to Frisbee catching, these dogs were awesome. Afterwards, we even got to go down and meet the dogs; there was one dog there bigger than myself, he was massive.
From Superdogs, we went to the animal barns, so many neat animals. From huge cows and Clydesdale horses to tiny rabbits and even smaller bees. The baby ducks were especially cute.
Next stop was the Peking Acrobats who performed many amazing stunts, one of them even stacked 10 (or more, I didnt count but it was a lot) chairs into one giant tower then did handstands at the top, amazing! Unfortunately, after the acrobats,we had to leave.
We did leave with many great memories and some very delicious mini donuts. Speaking of donuts, the stand where we stand there and watch as the machine deep fried the delicious rings of goodness and then they were scooped up by the attendant and bagged for your pleasure. We had 5 bags of them.
See you next year PNE!! 🙂
Surplus Sam’s Customer Appreciation Day on Sept 1, 2012
Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA says
Surplus Sam’s, a store by those who know of it attend it regularly as the prices are rock bottom, the service is awesome, and the staff is friendly and accommodating.
This past Saturday Sept 1, 2012 was the annual Customer Appreciation day where you could get up to 60% off the already low prices and a free hot dog and drink. The lineups to check out were very long but short wait times as the staff were fast and friendly. The weather was perfect, not too hot but very sunny.
I was able to purchase a pair of headphones for a fraction of the price you would see at another store and the only thing wrong with it was that the packaging was damaged.
This place is awesome, I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a great deal (admit it, everyone loves a good deal).
Surplus Sam’s started in 2002 with our South Burnaby store and a contract with a major retailer/wholesaler to buy up their customer returns, clearance, freight claims, and just about anything they wanted to send us. Since then we have diversified some of our product to include merchandise from bankruptcies and liquidations.
Due to the nature of this business, our merchandise is always changing and often very unique… see something once, you may never see it again… anywhere!
This website represents a very small percentage of the products that can be found in our store, but also has some merchandise from our storage warehouse that can only be found online.
Happy Treasure Hunting!
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