The Burnaby Lake Park Association would like to wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday season. Thank you for your continued support through a most unusual year.
A quick recap of what the BLPA was able to achieve. The board and our new coordinator Natasha developed a COVID-19 safety protocol for our programs and we were able to host 5 small and socially distanced work parties with over 30 volunteers and 70 hours. In addition to doing maintenance on various restoration sites in Burnaby Lake Regional Park, our volunteers helped support Metro Vancouver Regional Parks by planting over 400 native species at Sapperton Landing on the Brunette-Fraser Regional Greenway. Although the provincial health orders put a stop to our activities this year, we are pleased with what was achieved given the situation and that people wanted to join us in our work. We are happy to report that the post event volunteer surveys showed that 100% of the participants felt prepared with our registration procedures, the safety protocols were followed and that they felt safe attending the event.
I want to thank the our board members who have continued to meet monthly since the pandemic started. We have been doing a lot of behind the scenes work and getting to some of those projects that have been on the backburner for a long time. We will be in touch in the new year to get your feedback on ideas and possible new ways you could help us with our programs.
We will look forward to seeing you in the park again when it is safe to do so. We hope you can get out into the park with your household bubble.
Warmest wishes and all the best for 2021,
Irene Lau
Member – Board of Directors – Chair
If you haven’t been down to Piper Spit in a while, click here or below to enjoy this little walk by local photographer Silvester Law on December 10, 2020.
