Eco-Awareness & The Great Outdoors
#2: Oh, hail! Here comes the rain
May 14, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
From the garden of Lynn O’Malley… This was going to be a celebratory post about the fact that my sunflower seeds poked their heads above the soil last Saturday, a scant week after I detailed their planting in this post….
Project Sunflower Diary #1: Lynn O’Malley sows her seeds
May 5, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
From the garden of Lynn O’Malley, voice of the valley: For the past two months, the LynnValleyLife team has been planning and promoting its scheme to blanket Lynn Valley in summertime sunflowers. We’ve talked sunflowers, mailed sunflowers, photo’d sunflowers and…
Local landscaper gives top tips for lush lawns and great gardens
April 29, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
These spring landscape tips are provided by Lynn Valley local, Matt Boyd of Endless Summer Landscaping. Are you looking forward to a beautiful, lush, green lawn this year, surrounded by attractive gardens and dotted with healthy trees? These top…
Project Sunflower set to launch!
April 13, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
This is the week that many of our LynnValleyLife Network members are receiving their Project Sunflower seed packets in the mail or on their doorstep (let’s hope those late-season snow flurries won’t be visiting the Upper Lynn area any more!)…
Cousteau name graces LV French school
April 7, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Last month, the The French International School of Vancouver (located in Lynn Valley’s former Fromme Elementary building) honoured the legacy of visionary Jacques-Yves Cousteau — the most celebrated French defender of marine ecology— by renaming itself The French International School…
Almost-spring days give cause for celebration
March 8, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
From Lynn O’Malley’s typewriter: These first sunny days of almost-spring make me realize how cabin-fevered I had become! There are still a few weeks ’til spring officially kicks in, and an even longer haul ’til we get some reliable, lasting…
Leave space in the garden for Project Sunflower
March 4, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Last fall, those of us at LynnValleyLife HQ had a great time reading the nominations for our first-annual Good Neighbour Award, which wrapped up at the end of December. In fact, we had such a good time, we realized we’d…
LV man promoting mountain film fest
February 1, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Lynn Valley resident Steven Threndyle is PR director for the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. He’d like to invite the community to come out to the festival, which runs from Feb. 8 to 17. Steven, tell us about your role…
Adopt a Lynn Valley street today!
January 30, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
There’s a great new North Vancouver District program that can improve your life – and your community – all at the same time. Whether you want to teach your kids responsibility, lose a few pounds, get your partner out walking…
Hear about LV runner’s Indian adventure
January 17, 2013From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
We recently reported that Lynn Valley’s Hilary Ewart had successfully completed a 100-mile, five-day run through India’s Himalayan range, in the company of other North Shore running friends. Now you can come hear Hilary and three other runners talk about…
Lynn Valley neighbourhood clean up planned
October 21, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Lynn Valley litter will be targeted once again after last year’s successful Neighbourhood Clean-Up around Argyle School. The theme of the Nov. 3 grassroots gathering is “Our Community, Our Responsibility,” and it encourages families to get out with their children…
Lynn Valley sewer system tested
October 8, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
What the heck is a vapour test? And why is there one coming to a sewer near you? Click on this link from North Vancouver District, in which the municipality explains how and why Lynn Valley’s storm and sanitary sewers…
How did your Lynn Valley garden grow?
September 21, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
From the garden of Lynn O’Malley: Nature is all swings and roundabouts, isn’t it? Just when one is ready to despair over the constant mildewing of the zucchini leaves, a bumper crop of sweet peas gives one cause to celebrate….
Suspension bridge spans 100 years
September 7, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Once again Lynn Valley is celebrating an important centennial. Having already marked the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the L.V. Community Association and the first-ever Lynn Valley Day, everyone can pull out their party shoes again in order to…
Compost coaches offer free, at-home instruction
August 31, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Waste-reducers and gardeners can learn more about one of their favourite pastimes without spending a cent, thanks to the Compost Coaching program offered by the North Shore Recycling Program. Now that colder weather is on the horizon, you might want…
Lynn Valley kids blessed with natural playscape
August 30, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
FROM LYNN O’MALLEY: We talk a lot about our children having lost the ability to ‘play.’ Between busy work schedules, programmed after-school activities, and parental anxieties about kids being allowed to wander on their own, we have apparently turned into…
LV pest pros tell you how to bug off
July 31, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
By Dylan Wendt, Coast Pest Control If you have unwanted pests at home and want to try the natural approach before calling a pest control company; then try these tested home remedies. If they don’t solve your problems, then give…
Visit Maplewood Farm online, or for real at Open House
July 25, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
As of this moment – July 25, at 21:16 precisely – I can tell you that the goats at Maplewood Farm are either tucked away fast asleep, or they’ve staged a coup and made their grand escape. How do I…
New group welcomes ramblers and rovers
July 15, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
If you’re the type of person who instinctively prefers the term ‘rambling’ to ‘hiking,’ you might be interested to hear about a new informal walking group that meets twice a month. Jane and Leo are friends who have made a…
Knee Knacker just latest challenge for elite LV runner
July 12, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Some of the world’s top ultra-marathoners will be participating in this Saturday’s infamous Knee Knacker, a 30-mile run from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove along the Baden Powell trail, and Hilary Ewart is excited to be amongst them. It’s the…
Share your favourite walks and hikes
July 8, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
There is much to be said for the walks and hikes in and around Lynn Valley. So why don’t you help us say it? We already have a walks and hikes section that’s a good starting point for people who…
Circling helicopters part of Lynn Valley life
June 8, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
FROM THE EDITOR: The sound of sirens isn’t too unusual in Lynn Valley, especially during the summer months when it’s often assumed emergency responders are en route to a mishap in Lynn Canyon. While those occurrences can sometimes be tragic,…
Take a walk on the wild side at Lynn Headwaters event
May 21, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
The 100th Lynn Valley Day shindig may be over as of Saturday evening, but the celebration of local heritage will continue on Sunday with an event at Lynn Headwaters Park. Wilderness At Your Doorstep gives people the chance to learn…
Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge celebrates 100 years
May 14, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
BY TRICIA EDGAR: In 2012, Lynn Canyon Park is 100 years old. Let’s go on a walk through the trails of the canyon a century ago. If you’d visited then, what would you have seen? It’s a sunny day, and…
Food scrap collection? Let’s lead the way!
March 16, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
FROM LYNN O’MALLEY: As of the first week of May, we Lynn Valleyites have the chance to step up and really prove ourselves. That’s when the North Shore Recycling Program is extending its weekly yard waste pick-up service to include…
Recycling depots close at hand
February 11, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
Lynn Valley is an excellent place to live if you’re an environmentalist. Sure, we have lots of trees. But did you know we’re also particularly well-situated when it comes to recycling drop-off depots? We’re a hop, skip and a jump…
District workers are up the creek
January 30, 2012From the Front Porch of LynnValleyLife
FROM THE EDITOR: It’s always been easy to be impressed by Lynn Valley’s trees; after all, the world’s tallest fir – measuring 417 feet high and 77 feet around – was documented here in 1875. But for the next few…
