August 31, 2019 — The Vancouver Park Board is planning to build another full-size outdoor pool at South Vancouver’s Marpole Community Centre. The park board’s decision to build a new outdoor pool was not based on dollars and cents. Surveys show Vancouverites miss their outdoor pools. Opting to build an outdoor pool at Marpole is a case where citizen demand should trump cost.
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Community, Family, Sports & Recreation
August 5, 2019 — A couple of new social gathering spaces will come along with a condo development in South Vancouver.
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Art
August 5, 2019 — Make less than $20 per hour, or $41,600 per year? To find a place in the City of Vancouver, we need to jump to Marpole. Marpole Remainder (Marpole less Marpole South), requires a wage of $19.25 to afford the average one-bedroom. The gap between income and rent in Greater Vancouver seems to be getting wider every day.
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Housing
July 20, 2019 —
A new public art installation has been installed in Marpole. The City of Vancouver Public Art Program is installing a colourful artist-designed crosswalk on Granville Street in front of the Marpole Safeway. The design is a beautiful weaving pattern by … Read more
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Community Events
June 21, 2019 — New Marpole crosswalks, created by Musqueam artist Robyn Sparrow, celebrate the vitality of the Musqueam community and their artistic traditions and contribute to Musqueam visibility on their unceded territory as part of National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Street Beautification & Cleanliness
June 13, 2019 — This will be Xing Fu Tang’s fourth North American location, after opening on Cambie St, Kingsway, and the newest, Granville.
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food, Retail
June 13, 2019 — Nearly six years after the iconic firehall at 8585 Hudson St. suffered significant damage from flooding, the newly renovated heritage building now houses the Marpole Neighbourhood House.
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Community, Community Events, Community Meals
June 13, 2019 — The City of Vancouver and YMCA held a ribbon cutting ceremony May 31, 2019 for the new Kids at Marine YMCA daycare centre.
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Community, Family
March 3, 2019 — "We asked our customers who should receive our first cheque.....& the answer was clear: St. Augustine’s Church on Hudson St. So, dropped off $750 this morning. St. Augustine’s Church provides regular hot meals, has a Food Bank, their own Thrift Store, fun get togethers & offers a life & sense of Community to anyone who walks through their door!" — Wildlife Thrift Store
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Businesses, Churches & Places of Worship, clothing, Community, Community Meals, jewellery, retail, shoes
February 11, 2019 — A nearly century-old Vancouver school building will live to see 100 and more. David Lloyd George Elementary School in Marpole will remain open even after a replacement school has been built. An open house for the development of a new school is scheduled on February 12 at the school gym from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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Education
