It is a sport that most people think is for the older generation. Lawn bowling.
But there is a new movement afoot and it’s benefiting everyone who sees the sport as something more.
Perri Tutleman is not your average teenager and that’s a good thing for those looking to find a cure for cancer.
You see along with doing all the usual things with her friends, Perri is also budding award winning researcher.
In Ridge Meadows there is a special group of kids and their parents who get together and play baseball.
The special part, is not the game itself, but the interaction of the kids and the stereotypes they are breaking down, one hit at a time.
While millions of litres of crude continues to spew from BP’s blown well into the Gulf of Mexico, Environmental groups are sounding the alarm. Warning that it should be the wake up call for everyone. With drilling still being proposed off the coast of BC, there is concern here at home as well.
Group participants in a unique program offered at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House are facing locked doors, this coming September. The BC Liberals plan to cut the funding to the program that allows young adults with challenges to socialize, and get together. For most of them the program is a home away from home, and the group, more like members of an extended family.
Often kids who are labled autistic, get other labels attached to them as well.
Robert Gagno’s parents were told that their son probably wouldn’t be able do things,, like talk, read, or write.
What the so called specialists never really focussed on,,,,,, were all the things Robert might be able to accomplish.
And Robert has become a shining example of what is possible, with hard work, determination and a loving family.
More than a third of Canadian parents say they’re not concerned their child will suffer an injury while bicycling.
But analysts say head injuries are the leading cause of serious injury and death to children on wheels!
Doctor Shelina Babul-Weller, Injury Prevention Specialist, and her seven-year-old daughter Alyssa, talk about why even a short ride down the street is a dangerous activity if you don’t wear a helmet.
So called ‘LG parties’ or little girl parties.
LGH(Little girl hunters) or LGS(Little Girl slayers), these are clubs of boys to see how many girls they can seduce before graduation, some are betting on it, silence of all boys is a form of participating, girls are seduced primarily online.
Boys are usually around 17, girls are 12 or 13, says the girls don’t have the skills to back out of. These boys are committing a crime. Anita Roberts author of Safe Teen has been seeing the disturbing trend gain popularity recently and says parents need to have some very frank discussions with their kids.
Mid April into May is usually the season for 69-year old local fisherman Terry Slack, to dip his net into the Fraser, to catch oolichan.
Also known as eulachon or candlefish, it’s a type of smelt that was once regarded as the “saviour” or “salvation” fish.
Terry could remember as a young boy pulling out oolichan’s by the bucket full. Now, Slack says the run could be over for good.