Wednesday, April 22 - Earth Day
Earth Week Flag-raising 4 pm at city hall, 6910 Duncan Street. Listen to dedications from all levels of local government. Musical entertainment and pollinator seeds and live plants will be available to take home.
Little Hut Curry: Earth Day Special Dinner
Thursday, April 23
Carol Engram’s Red Door Worm Farm open house noon to 5 pm,Community Living Place, Artaban Street.
Movie Night 7 pm at Ecossentials. Watch Vanishing of the Bees after reading about the 90-minute movie at www.vanishingbees.com.
Friday, April 24
eCouture Wearable Art Fashion Show 7:30 pm, hosted by Malaspina Art Society at the Rodmay Hotel. Doors open at 7 pm.
Powell River Home + Garden Show 4 to 8 pm at Powell River Recreation Complex arena.
Saturday, April 25
Trash Bash 9:30 am to 3 pm at Willingdon Beach parking lot. Powell River Regional District’s 10th annual clean up of illegally dumped trash from the coastlines, trails and backcountry. See more details in ad on this page.
Farmers’ Market opening day 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at Paradise Exhibition Grounds. Purchase locally produced eggs, vegetables, fruit, meat, honey, baking, plants, crafts and best of all, meet the farmers.
Powell River Home + Garden Show 10 am to 5 pm at the recreation complex arena.
Pre-Shuffle Social Spag n’ Sip’s Meet and Greet 5 pm at Magpie’s Diner.
Green Zine Factory 1 to 5 pm at Powell River Public Library. Make your own recycled maga’zine’. All supplies provided.
Sunday, April 26
Marathon Shuffle 9 and 11 am. Take a long, or medium, hike along Sunshine Coast Trail with hundreds of others, hosted by Powell River Parks and Wilderness Society. See www.sunshinecoast-trail.com for details.
Farmers’ Market 12:30 to 2:30 pm.
Sunshine Coast Aquaponics 3 pm free tour, Swede Bell Road.
Movie Matinee Just Eat It 1 pm Patricia Theatre, presented by Powell River Regional District’s Let’s Talk Trash Team. Find out more about the movie at www.foodwastemovie.com.
Monday, April 27
Urban Homesteading School sampler evening 7 pm at Cranberry Community Hall.
Tuesday, April 28
Xeriscaping with Powell River Garden Club, 7 pm at Cranberry Seniors’ Centre, with master gardener Jo Ann Canning.
Week-long events:
Restaurant specials at Little Hut Curry, Ecossentials, Coastal Cookery, Magpie’s Diner, Edie Rae’s, Base Camp, Iguana’s and more to be confirmed.
Malaspina Art Society - Recycled art masks show
First Credit Union - Workplace challenge
For all the details and more events, visit earthweekpr.ca.
