Courtenay Rec pages Fall 2019

Enjoy the rest of summer with FREE concerts at Courtenay’s Simms Millenium Park on Sundays at 7:00 pm. Bring your own lawnchair or blanket and enjoy the show! • August 11 - BIG LITTLE LIONS ~ Juno Award winner Helen Austin with Paul Otten playing catchy folk pop songs • August 18 - RETRO ROCK REVIVAL ~ Experience the energy of rock n’ roll from the 1950s. Wear your dancing shoes! • August 26 - MY GENERATION with Food Bank Drive The Ultimate Woodstock Experience! Enjoy the music of Santana, Janis Joplin, The Who, Joe Cocker & more. Wear your hippest 60’s mod threads. For this last concert of the season, we are holding a FOOD BANK DRIVE . Please bring a non-perishable food item or a cash donation. The Simms Summer Concert Series season is sponsored by the Comox Valley Record, The Goat 98.9 FM, What’s On Comox Valley and the City of Courtenay. For information: Lewis Centre 250-338-5371 or get updates at www.courtenay.ca/simms trees, the creation of habitat snags, or complete tree removal. The work began this spring and continued throughout the summer. In addition to risk management work, over 350 trees were planted in 2018 with 100 of these trees being in open parks spaces while others are on trail edges & understory plantings. Some trees were planted in partnership with the Rotary Club. A grant from Tree Canada and BC Hydro helped make the work possible. Simms Park Summer Concert Series Urban Forest Work in Courtenay Parks Courtenay Parks staff are working to protect the health and safety of the public by identifying tree risks within our parks and trails systems. An annual tree risk survey was completed in 2018 with 40 kilometres of internal parks and trail edges as well as 13 kilometres of external parks assessed. As a result of this assessment, parks staff and contractors have been working on proactively mitigating the identified tree risks. Risk mitigation measures might include pruning

Food Bank Drive on August 26

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