16 December 2022 – It’s barely a kilometer from the east end of False Creek back to Olympic Plaza, but it is chock-full of invitations along the way. We are encouraged to…

Help design a park:

Get involved with East Park, now in its consultation/planning stages.

Watch the changing tides:

Say yes to any or all of multiple invitations in Olympic Plaza:

• Salute the site itself, a from-scratch construction project, “North America’s first LEED Platinum community,” completed in time to house athletes for the 2010 Winter Olympics and subsequently converted to more than 1,000 condo units; or…

• Enjoy (but not climb!) Myfanwy Macleod’s The Birds art installations; or…

• Admire the sleek industrial-functional lines of the 1931 Vancouver Salt Co., built to process unrefined salt shipped in from floodplains near San Francisco; or…

• Indulge a thirst for beer not history, and visit the building in its present incarnation as CRAFT False Creek (“where everything is on tap”).

Go for the gold:

This gentleman, in largely legible and fairly grammatical prose, states that the CIA has buried two tons of gold in a secret location beneath the City of Vancouver — and he knows where it is. (Which, he adds, is why the cops shot at him the other day and CSIS is pursuing him.)

Or...

in a final invitation discovered up on West 2nd Avenue…

submit!

Ahhhh, well… or maybe just get cobbled instead.