The Rotary Coats for Kids program is looking for donations of jackets to keep local kids warm this winter. The coats are loaded on a truck and taken to schools and community centres where kids in need have been picked out for the program.
The campaign runs till Dec. 31. To drop off gently used coats, preferably weatherproof with hoods, visit the Cameron, Tommy Douglas, McGill or Metrotown library branch before Oct. 31. People can also drop off cash donations at the South Burnaby Neighbourhood House, 4845 Imperial St., or at the UPS store at 105-7655 Edmonds St. Burnaby Staples stores are also accepting donations of coats. For more information, email rotarycoatsfor kids@gmail.com.
ATOP THE HILL
More than 2,100 students are preparing for fall convocation at Simon Fraser University.
There will be ceremonies on Thursday Oct. 6 and Friday, Oct. 7 at the Burnaby campus. Carole Taylor, former B.C. finance minister, is presiding over the ceremonies as SFU's new chancellor.
Four people will be honoured at the ceremonies this year: author William Deverell, musician Ian Hampton, ecologist C.S. Holling and former Musqueam chief Wendy Grant-John.
PLANT PROJECT
In celebration of Rivers Day, the Stoney Creek Environment Committee teamed up with the city's parks department and Burnaby Lougheed Lions volunteers to replant a section of Cottonwood Park in northeast Burnaby. For the past three summers, members of the Stoney Creek Environment Committee, a group of volunteer streamkeepers, have been removing invasive species from the area where the Stoney Creek runs under Government Road. The volunteers spent Sunday, Sept. 25, planting native species. The Stoney Creek Environment Committee also donated $350 to the Burnaby parks department to help cover the cost of the 200 native plants used in the project.
CLEANING CREW
Employees at the Burnaby branch of a worldwide construction and engineering firm helped take care of the environment for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup on Sept. 24.
Employees from SNCLavalin's environment division helped the annual effort by participating in the cleanup at Miller Park in Coquitlam. For more information, see www. shorelinecleanup.ca.
jmoreau@burnabynow.com
