Every week at Global BC, we highlight our stories to bring a bright light to your Friday and weekend.
Here are five stories we wanted to share:
Toddler drowning averted in Lake Okanagan, notes Mountie on duty
A young family was resting on Okanagan beach last weekend when they almost averted the tragedy, the RCMP said.
It was around 2 p.m. on a Saturday, when a couple’s two-year-old child took the wrong path while walking along the pier at Naramata beach and fell into the water.
The RCMP said in a press release: “The child had great difficulty floating in extremely cold water.
Yoda, Batman, Optimus Prime: Surrey man’s pop culture collection on display at BC . museum
Dilber Mann’s hobby is collecting statues of celebrities from the 1980s. They were recently packed, loaded into trucks and moved to the Surrey Museum.
Except for Yoda, who was driving a shotgun in his car.
“I don’t have the box anymore and I don’t want to take it off,” Mann said.
Exhibits include statues of Batman, X-Men, Optimus Prime, Predator, and a few famous Jedis.
While it’s a showcase of ’80s pop culture, there’s also a story on the wall that describes Mann’s experiences during his years growing up in the diverse city of Surrey and how these franchises have come to be. bring people together.
‘A Perfect Marriage’: 2 First Nations to Win Park Ranger Rights on BC’s Northwest Coast
In the lush forests and misty waters of British Columbia’s northwest coast, First Nations people have kept watch since time immemorial.
Their territories, the part of which is now known as the Great Bear Rainforest, were inhabited not only by people but also by all sorts of exceptional wildlife, from reishi bears to humpback whales .
For more than a decade, the Coast Guard has patrolled its waters, documenting the health of ecosystems and tracking poachers and other illegal activities.
On Wednesday, some of those watchmen – from the Kitasoo/Xai’xais and Nuxalk Countries – signed a historic agreement with the provincial government to launch a pilot project giving them all both the powers of rangers under the BC Parks Act and the Ecological Reserves Act.
From Dingle Bingle Hill to Bergen-Op-Zoom, Nanaimo BC’s unusual street names
It’s no secret that the City of Nanaimo, BC, has some unusual street names.
A new exhibition of names is now on display at the Nanaimo Museum, brought together by a group of history students at Vancouver Island University (VIU).
Dr. Katharine Rollwagen, a professor at VIU, said last semester she was working with another professor at the university, Dr. Kelly Black, who both teach history, and they decided they wanted to work. together on a project involving Nanaimo.
Airport meeting with Vancouver man sparks food aid network for Ukraine
A Ukrainian woman who fled to Vancouver amid Russia’s invasion of her homeland has teamed up with a local man to organize an intricate network of deliveries to get food to people in the war-torn country. .
Twice a day, Olena manages to video chat with her daughters, Leeza and Katya, who are staying with their family in Prague.
This is an opportunity for the family to stay connected and for the girls to see their new baby brother Richard, who was born in Vancouver just over a month ago.
When she was near full term and worried about the wait time for birth papers in the Czech Republic, she booked a flight to BC to stay with a distant contact. But everything changed when she met a Vancouver man at the airport.
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