The Roberts Creek Community Association has come up with a fine distraction to allow you to celebrate Earth Day in the Creek, and share your love for our home with the world. It’s a haiku con....
The Roberts Creek Community Association has come up with a fine distraction to allow you to celebrate Earth Day in the Creek, and share your love for our home with the world. It’s a haiku con.... no, wrong, it’s a photo contest! Show us why you live here. The
RCCA wants to see photos of people enjoying the incredible vistas of Roberts Creek. Top three choices will win a $50 gift certificate to a business of their choice in our little town. Deadline is the 19th and the winners will be announced on the Roberts Creek Speaks Facebook page, April 20. Send all submissions to
boottales@robertscreekcommunity.ca.Bryan
Rossiter has been chosen to restore, with the aid of historic photographs as reference, the exterior wooden siding and wood-trimmed front windows on the Roberts Creek Hall. Anna Bethune and
Izora Goodwin have won the bid to paint the library exterior. Also, the
RCCA is aiming to install a piano at the gazebo behind the library for the community to play. Any ideas around maintenance or support on this project are welcomed. The kitchen renovation at the hall is full steam ahead. It will be carried out in late spring or early summer, updates to come.The next Roberts Creek Official Community Plan Committee meeting will be via Zoom, Tuesday, April 20, at 7 p.m. If you have an agenda item or would like to attend the meeting, please contact Elaine
Futterman, at
creekclayworks@dccnet.com.April activity at the Hall (all events fully adhere to provincial and local public health guidelines): Monday evenings 7-9 p.m. – Samurai Brotherhood Meeting; Tuesday, April 20, 1-6 p.m. –
JapaThai; Thursdays – Curry in the Creek (pick-up from 3-6 p.m.); Wednesday 1-4 p.m. – Community Market.Our volunteer-run library in the heart of Roberts Creek wants you to remember that if the book is out, you can request to be phoned when it comes back in. Library hours for April: Tuesday and Wednesday 2-6 p.m., Thursday 2-4 p.m. and Saturday 10-2 p.m. Come in and enjoy the old-
timey fun of the Dewey decimal system!The Creek has recently lost a true icon of 1960s counterculture. Hippy,
permaculturist, pot grower, bamboo enthusiast, genealogist and someone who lived life on his own terms, Peter Light died on April 6 at the young age of 78. I recall seeing Peter heading back to the Creek from
Gibsons in his white van that happened to be missing the windshield; his remedy for the situation was a handsome pair of motorcycle goggles. An innovative and humorous solution. Peter will be buried in Roberts Creek and a memorial will be held after COVID. To be contacted about the memorial, email peter.light.memorial@gmail.com.
Extraordinary times have called for extraordinary measures, do your best but don’t beat yourself up. Practise kindness to yourself and to others, we all have a story to tell and some are harder and sadder than others. Talk it out, but having the patience to listen is a gift to everyone.
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