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Vancouver Society for Promotion of Outdoor Pools AGM Thursday, November 29th at 630PM Maizal RMF (Real Mexican Food) Restaurant 2815 Main Street (just south of 12th Ave) Membership $5 individual, $10 family, $25 organization. If you can not attend the AGM, please become a member and/or donate online to help… Continue reading →

Park Board candidates positions on swimming pools: This group brings you the different parties platforms on outdoor pools. We do not endorse any one party over another related to all of the issues, but share information with our readers regarding the outdoor swimming pool issue in this election campaign, and… Continue reading →

Park Board candidates positions on swimming pools: This group brings you the different parties platforms on outdoor pools. We do not endorse any one party over another related to all of the issues, but share information with our readers regarding the outdoor swimming pool issue in this election campaign, and… Continue reading →

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation did not include a replacement outdoor pool in Mount Pleasant Community Park in the 2019 – 2022 Capital Plan at its July 19 meeting. This means that the pool will be considered as part of City-wide Advisory Committee consultations that the Park Board… Continue reading →

Park Board announced in April that VanSplash will not go back to the Board for decisions, but will go to a Public Advisory Committee process in 2019. This means that no decisions will be made until after the Capital Plan has been finalized and after the municipal election in October… Continue reading →

Important Park Board Capital Plan Update: One outdoor swimming pool, Oak Pool in Marpole, is included in the Draft Capital Plan. This is a great start!   Despite Park Board approval in 2010, Mount Pleasant Pool is not in the Draft Plan. Please see below what actions you can take… Continue reading →

Updates from the January 29 Park Board meeting re: VanSplash: Some excellent amendments were proposed to Recommendations A & B, but before any discussion of these amendments occured and before further amendments could be put forward, a motion was passed to refer the report back to staff for further revisions… Continue reading →

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Two long nights of speakers at the Park Board Committee meeting December 11th and December 12th, 2017, with not one person or group in support of the VanSplash proposal. Bravo to all the passionate and articulate speakers aged from 6 to 94 with a variety of reasons for not supporting… Continue reading →