Showing posts with label West End. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West End. Show all posts
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Regional Recycling is on Evans at the east end and north side of Terminal -- Google Maps.[/caption]
The Regional Recycling Vancouver bottle depot is now open at 7 a.m. every day. The Encorp Return-It depot still hasn't changed the hours on their Web site but word of the change is spreading among their customers. It was confirmed to me by an email from Regional Vancouver's manager Arlene Watson.
Regional's decision to begin opening one hour earlier comes ahead of another bottle depot's move into the area. United We Can is scheduled to move from the Downtown Eastside to Industrial Avenue any day now.
The United We Can bottle depot at 39 East Hastings Street is apparently still at 39 East Hastings Street even though yesterday ( January 15) was widely reported as the date it was to move to its new location on 455 Industrial Avenue.
Regional Recycling is on Evans at the east end and north side of Terminal -- Google Maps.[/caption]The Regional Recycling Vancouver bottle depot is now open at 7 a.m. every day. The Encorp Return-It depot still hasn't changed the hours on their Web site but word of the change is spreading among their customers. It was confirmed to me by an email from Regional Vancouver's manager Arlene Watson.
Regional's decision to begin opening one hour earlier comes ahead of another bottle depot's move into the area. United We Can is scheduled to move from the Downtown Eastside to Industrial Avenue any day now.
United We Can bottle depot hasn't moved yet
The United We Can bottle depot at 39 East Hastings Street is apparently still at 39 East Hastings Street even though yesterday ( January 15) was widely reported as the date it was to move to its new location on 455 Industrial Avenue.
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Lift with your back kid! One of the best photos in the history of garbage photography.[/caption]
The magic of Christmas isn't really visible from the alleys. It's pretty much buried under the mountains of holiday-related garbage.
It would be bad enough without the horde of dumpster divers who have galloped into Fairview -- mostly from the steppes of the Downtown Eastside -- to sift the trash with a fine tooth comb to find all the imagined treasure the "day after."
I encountered a few in the evening preparing to work the "night shift."
Where some night shift workers will fortify themselves with coffee, all three of the intrepid lads I saw were sped up like a recording by Alvin and the Chipmunks -- all the better to be able to spend three hours getting to the bottom of whatever might be in a big old dumpster.
Normally this could be chalked up to the fact that Fairview's dumpsters mostly stay unlocked while downtown they are kept locked by law. But today? I can't believe the dumpsters in the downtown West End neighbourhood would be any less full than in Fairview, where they couldn't lock them if they wanted to.
So anyway, all the dumpsters I saw on Boxing Day were either overflowing with garbage or they looked like they erupted, spraying their contents far and wide.
Oh the crows will have a field day tomorrow morning! As will the garbage pickup trucks. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Disappointing scene. Mostly because it doesn't photograph as badly as it looks in person.[/caption]
Lift with your back kid! One of the best photos in the history of garbage photography.[/caption]The magic of Christmas isn't really visible from the alleys. It's pretty much buried under the mountains of holiday-related garbage.
It would be bad enough without the horde of dumpster divers who have galloped into Fairview -- mostly from the steppes of the Downtown Eastside -- to sift the trash with a fine tooth comb to find all the imagined treasure the "day after."
I encountered a few in the evening preparing to work the "night shift."
Where some night shift workers will fortify themselves with coffee, all three of the intrepid lads I saw were sped up like a recording by Alvin and the Chipmunks -- all the better to be able to spend three hours getting to the bottom of whatever might be in a big old dumpster.
Normally this could be chalked up to the fact that Fairview's dumpsters mostly stay unlocked while downtown they are kept locked by law. But today? I can't believe the dumpsters in the downtown West End neighbourhood would be any less full than in Fairview, where they couldn't lock them if they wanted to.
So anyway, all the dumpsters I saw on Boxing Day were either overflowing with garbage or they looked like they erupted, spraying their contents far and wide.
Oh the crows will have a field day tomorrow morning! As will the garbage pickup trucks. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Disappointing scene. Mostly because it doesn't photograph as badly as it looks in person.[/caption]
Increasingly I'm seeing trucks and SUVs trying to just go over traffic diverters like the one above. Here the driver of a large truck has made tracks over the diverter at the intersection of Alberta Street, and West Broadway, as if it wasn't even there. One block west, on Columbia Street, there's a newer diverter, doing the same job, which I watched being given it's finishing touches a few months ago. So far it has survived unscathed.
The City of Vancouver has been incorporating traffic calming measures in it's neighbourhood street improvements for at least 30 years. By "traffic calming," I mean traffic circles (aka roundabouts), at neighbourhood intersections; speed bumps near schools, and traffic diverters of all shapes and sizes. The goal is to slow down, and control the flow of traffic, into, and through neighbourhoods, using street architecture rather than just stop signs, or traffic lights.
Vancouver's eighth annual Homeless Action Week started on Sunday, October 13, and runs to the 19th. With the Thanksgiving long weekend, HAW 2013 really started Tuesday, October 15 -- so how will the City of Vancouver be using these next five days to raise the issues of homelessness?This year's HAW is focused on the "invisible homeless," what physicists call "Transient Dark Matter." HAW organizers describe the "invisibly homeless" as people who have a shelter but not a home. They say the solution to homelessness starts with a home. This is so trite that it's easy to forget that it is exactly true
This was the scene Wednesday afternoon, on the North-West corner of 8th Avenue, and Cambie Street. Five women were handing out coffee samples out of the back of a hatchback to promote the Keurig single cup brewing system. They were doing it beside a Provincial government-run liquor store, but the coffee quintet was fishing here for the generally large crowds, from two nearby supermarkets, two nearby big box retailers, and West Broadway, just one block South.
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Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr.[/caption]Last Sunday, In Vancouver's downtown West End neighbourhood a group pushing for a one cent deposit on cigarette butts, collected, and paid out, on some 60,000 of the discarded stinkers ► -- this was during the West End's Car Free Day -- fortunately, not Carr Free, because Vancouver's Green party City Councillor, Adriane Carr has now lent her voice to calls for a provincial cigarette butt deposit and refund program. ► The more mundane problems, like under employment, affordable housing, drug addiction, and crime (petty to very organized), will just have to wait while everyone tackles the burning issue of cigarette butts.
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Poster for this Year's Car Free Day, on a pole in the West End, at Denman and Davie. Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]
Four Vancouver neighbourhoods enjoyed a Car Free Father's Day on Sunday. Sections of Mount Pleasant's Main Street, East Vancouver's Commercial Drive, West Broadway, in Kitsilano, and Denman Avenue, in the West End, said no to cars and yes to pedestrians, cyclists, pet parades, musicians, and, in the West End, a big yes, to big bags of cigarette butts. ▼ The first Car Free Day was in 2005, on Commercial Drive, in the working class neighbourhood of East Vancouver. Year-by-year, the event is established in more neighbourhoods, along-side other popular neighbourhood block parties, such as Kitsilano's Greek Day, which is next Sunday, June 23, and East Vancouver's Italian Day, which was two weeks ago, on June 9.
Apparently, according to a National Post article, our city's administration is looking to combat loneliness in Vancouver with block parties, "lots of block parties. Soon, on a pre-determined Block Party Day, the people of Vancouver could traverse their entire city on overlapping networks of block parties and “see what each neighbourhood is made of,” The Post quotes our Mayor, Gregor Robertson, as saying.
According to an item in this morning's Province, newspaper, one of the groups pushing for a British Columbia-wide deposit program for cigarette butts, put their money where their mouth was, at Sunday's West End Car Free Day, The group called West End Cleanup, says it took in more than 60,000 cigarette butts, at a penny-a-butt, or $20 per pound. The group's spokesperson John Merzetti, pointed to a "snapshot" taken of 17 blocks in the West End, which found 25,000 cigarette butts littering the streets. ▲
Wow! I poked fun at the whole idea in an earlier post, but perhaps I should just butt out of this discussion. I guess there are a whole lot more cigarette smokers downtown than in my neighbourhood of Fairview.
Poster for this Year's Car Free Day, on a pole in the West End, at Denman and Davie. Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]Four Vancouver neighbourhoods enjoyed a Car Free Father's Day on Sunday. Sections of Mount Pleasant's Main Street, East Vancouver's Commercial Drive, West Broadway, in Kitsilano, and Denman Avenue, in the West End, said no to cars and yes to pedestrians, cyclists, pet parades, musicians, and, in the West End, a big yes, to big bags of cigarette butts. ▼ The first Car Free Day was in 2005, on Commercial Drive, in the working class neighbourhood of East Vancouver. Year-by-year, the event is established in more neighbourhoods, along-side other popular neighbourhood block parties, such as Kitsilano's Greek Day, which is next Sunday, June 23, and East Vancouver's Italian Day, which was two weeks ago, on June 9.
City-wide Block Party Day?
Apparently, according to a National Post article, our city's administration is looking to combat loneliness in Vancouver with block parties, "lots of block parties. Soon, on a pre-determined Block Party Day, the people of Vancouver could traverse their entire city on overlapping networks of block parties and “see what each neighbourhood is made of,” The Post quotes our Mayor, Gregor Robertson, as saying.
Penny per butt popular at West End Car Free Day
According to an item in this morning's Province, newspaper, one of the groups pushing for a British Columbia-wide deposit program for cigarette butts, put their money where their mouth was, at Sunday's West End Car Free Day, The group called West End Cleanup, says it took in more than 60,000 cigarette butts, at a penny-a-butt, or $20 per pound. The group's spokesperson John Merzetti, pointed to a "snapshot" taken of 17 blocks in the West End, which found 25,000 cigarette butts littering the streets. ▲
Wow! I poked fun at the whole idea in an earlier post, but perhaps I should just butt out of this discussion. I guess there are a whole lot more cigarette smokers downtown than in my neighbourhood of Fairview.
Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr throws her support behind the butt deposit ►
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A lot of street folk would snap these up![/caption]
Doctors have ethical restraints, that don't reign-in bloggers. I have no responsibility to tell the truth or make sense, or keep a civil tongue in my blog. I can suggest hare-brained schemes till the cows come home -- and by all means, let's bring them all home, now! So which of us -- blogger, or doctor, is suggesting putting a one-cent deposit on cigarette butts? Doctor Stuart H. Kreisman, MD Division of Endocrinology St. Paul's Hospital, that's who!
A lot of street folk would snap these up![/caption]Doctors have ethical restraints, that don't reign-in bloggers. I have no responsibility to tell the truth or make sense, or keep a civil tongue in my blog. I can suggest hare-brained schemes till the cows come home -- and by all means, let's bring them all home, now! So which of us -- blogger, or doctor, is suggesting putting a one-cent deposit on cigarette butts? Doctor Stuart H. Kreisman, MD Division of Endocrinology St. Paul's Hospital, that's who!
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What's a Palm Bay when it's at home? a vodka cocktail in a can; fruit-flavoured, tasty, sweet. Made locally. What were we talking about again? [/caption]
I mentioned here, how some binners acquire keys to dumpster locks. Pictured above is one of those collections. The owner of this set says, all the keys work, giving access to "everything." Well, almost everything; there are new keys coming out all the time, and there are, maybe, 24 more keys they would like to get. This collection is a twenty-year work-in-progress. By contrast, I have, umm, four dumpster keys.
What's a Palm Bay when it's at home? a vodka cocktail in a can; fruit-flavoured, tasty, sweet. Made locally. What were we talking about again? [/caption]I mentioned here, how some binners acquire keys to dumpster locks. Pictured above is one of those collections. The owner of this set says, all the keys work, giving access to "everything." Well, almost everything; there are new keys coming out all the time, and there are, maybe, 24 more keys they would like to get. This collection is a twenty-year work-in-progress. By contrast, I have, umm, four dumpster keys.
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