Mark your calendar for the September 26 All-Candidates Meeting! Find out who’s running in the Vancouver-Quilchena riding in the B.C. fall election. Meet the candidates and ask questions. Get informed before heading to the polls on October 19! WHEN: 7-9 p.m., Thursday, September 26, 2024WHERE: Kerrisdale Community Centre, 5851 West Boulevard, Vancouver
Watercolour artist Mohammad Reza Atashzad never goes anywhere without his painting supplies. “My life is filled with paintings that reflect my memorable experiences [see Marine Building and Sound of Glory paintings below, l-r]. Through my art, I document and write my life story,” says Atashzad, who has been teaching art classes at the Kerrisdale Community Centre for the last nine years. Drawing and painting as a child, he was influenced by both his mother, a handicraft artist,
As part of our fall season planning, we conducted a survey seeking feedback about the community centre’s pickleball programming. The survey was sent directly to 250 registered participants, with an impressive and enthusiastic response rate of 144 completed surveys. A common theme emerged throughout these results; people overwhelmingly favoured the status quo with 129 out of 144 (89.6%) respondents reported being neutral to very satisfied with the centre’s pickleball programming. With that being said, there
Upon witnessing just how much hearing aids can improve a person’s life, Dr. Katarina Vavrovicova set out to pursue a career in audiology. Growing up in Bratislava, Slovakia, she went on to graduate from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania with a doctoral degree in audiology in 2006. Since then, Vavrovicova has been working with physicians and the medical community in the Vancouver area, all the while gaining extensive experience in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of hearing disorders.
The Kerrisdale Community Centre Society (KCCS) would like you to meet the 2024-2025 board of directors! Following the February election and AGM, these new and returning directors look forward to guiding the society and the community centre at large in the year to come. Photo below: (top row, l-r) Humaira Akhtar, Miran Aziz, Mani Bala, Kathleen Bigsby, Oscar Bisnar, Dorothy Chan; (middle row, l-r) Claire Cheung, Lo Ming Lee, Wendy Ma, Kathy McKay, Seun Oyeneye, Morag Pansegrau;
Dear Community Centre Patrons: You may be aware that Vancouver City Council, by a vote of 8-3 on December 13, 2023, passed a resolution to eliminate the seven elected Vancouver Park Board Commissioners, and to ask the provincial government to pass legislation to transfer the Park Board responsibilities to a City department under the direct control of City Council. The elected Park Board has existed for more than 130 years. The Commissioners are elected by
While fitness and exercise have always had a place at the Kerrisdale Community Centre, it wasn’t until January 1995 that the Exercise Room officially opened. Popular ever since, the facility now sees around 5,000 visits monthly while continuing to welcome patrons of varying ages and fitness levels. “There’s a lot of variety of people,” says Barry Petkau (below, left), personal trainer and fitness attendant at the centre for almost 15 years. “I have clients who are trying
A neighbourhood fixture for almost seven decades, the Kerrisdale Pool continues to make a splash with patrons of all backgrounds. Recently reopened after its annual maintenance, the facility now boasts better ventilation throughout – thanks to new air handling units – and a new accessible pool lift in the shallow end. Opened as a 30.5-metre, six-lane outdoor pool in 1956, when Canadian champion swimmer Helen Stewart Hunt took the first lap (below, left), it would eventually be converted into an
Join the members of your community at our 76th Annual General Meeting Kerrisdale Community Centre Society AGM Wednesday February 20, 7:30pm • Meet other community members • Review 2017-18 KCCS Financial Statements • President’s Annual Report • Approve proposed changes to the Society’s bylaws* • Ask the Board any questions • Elect in the 2019-29 KCCS directors • Coffee/tea and snacks will be served All participants attending the AGM must carry a current KCCS membership
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