Today is your day Boomer! Every now and again I feature a Boomer doing something incredible. Today, it is almost-Boomer Henry Wang and his group of about 20 people(some are Boomers!)from BC's Lower Mainland who scour the bottom of our lakes and clean up garbage. The group is called Divers For Cleaner Lakes and Oceans, and what do they find? According to The Province Newspaper, "Everything from parking street signs to park benches, from laptops, cell phocarts—all of it picked up by an underwater army." Henry says old beer cans is the number one item they find. Since 2013, how much garbage have they recovered? 27,000 kg....including some wierd things like a rusty E-bike!
And I like this....Henry says "Going into a lake and using my scuba diving skills to remove trash isn’t something that everybody can do, which means that if I have the ability then I have the responsibility to act.” This guy is....simply....a civic hero. Thanks Henry and Co.. We need more people (like Boomers!) doing more helpful things like this. Cheers!
Today is your day Boomer! Well, yesterday was my day! My long-awaited dream of building and opening a new high school gym in Summerland came true! 550 students watched, smiled and vigourously applauded as the SD67 school trustees officially cut the ribbon and opened the facility. The kids played in their new gym, in a so-called Rocket Rally, right after that and then 200 more mostly-Summerlanders attended a two-hour opening fundraiser that evening. There were people, young and old, every where: going on tours, eating food, watching volleyball and basketball, listening to speeches, and investing money in 30 community-donated silent auction items and a huge 50/50 raffle...organized by the school's Parent Advisory Council. The final fundraiser tally was about 7000$...made in only two hours! Congratulations students and staff of SSS. Your new gym is finally here, the first new one since 1951! Play on....
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