A new 2020 calendar features Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park in all of its natural glory.
This fundraising calendar with landscape images for each month will be sold by Burnaby schools and youth groups this fall season – just in time for Christmas gift giving.
The calendar is a local product designed by a Burnaby company called RaiseALife Canada and is printed by Teldon. It fits nicely in a standard 10x13-inch envelope, so it can easily be sent to grandparents for Christmas sharing the beauty of Burnaby’s premier park.
Kelvin Chan, manager of community relations for the company, says it was his wife’s idea to produce a calendar when he was looking for a new project. The special views of Deer Lake Park made it an easy choice to feature the park, Chan said.
“We are so fortunate to live in a city that has a natural park with a lake and a wetland environment providing habitat for a variety of birds and plants,” he said.
It just so happened that Chan’s first visit to Burnaby was in the 1970s, when he came to photograph the Oakalla Prison Farm for a government report. He toured the farm, seeing the cows - as well as guards holding shotguns. He said it is amazing that city leaders had the foresight to expand Deer Lake Park to the farmland when the prison closed and to maintain the natural habitat.
The park is popular with photographers.
“As the weather changes, the view changes with it,” said Chan. “On many fall mornings, particularly after a rainfall, the park is covered in dew, mist or fog, favourite ingredients for landscape photographers. And when it snows, the park is an incredible experience for anyone walking through it.”
If youth sports teams or non-profit groups are interested in calendar fundraising, he can be contacted through the company’s website at www.raisealife.com.
