Call for Exhibitors + Fall Leaf Pickup

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 🌧️ Weather - Cloudy with showers

 😜 Rain Joke - What do you call it when raindrops play hide and seek? 🫣

 🗓️ New West Events - Some great events happening this week

 💝 You’re So Sweet - Thank you, Rosemary R.!

 🗞️ New West Local News - Call for Exhibitors + Fall Leaf Pickup

 😆 Meme of the Day

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October 28, 2025

🗣️ English Conversation Circles at the Welcome Centre – 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

📖 Storytime (3-5 years) – 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

📱 Bring Your Own Device Tech Cafe! – 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

📝 Work BC Employment Services Drop-In – 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

🧘 Yang Tai Chi 24 form – 5:00 PM

🍺 Steel & Oak Beer and Board Games – 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

📝 New West Tenants Union Monthly Meeting – 6:30 PM

🖊️ Virtual Author Event: Alex Neve via Zoom – 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

❓️ Howe Sound Trivia Tuesdays – 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

🎭️ Notorious Grey Fox Trivia Tuesdays – 7:00 PM

🎸 Georgie's Local Tuesday Night Jam Session – 7:00 PM

🪡 Sewing Beginner(16+ years) at təməsew̓txʷ – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

October 29, 2025

👶 Mom + Baby Meet Up at Cove Indoor Play – 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 CaRT Peer Navigators – 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

👶 Babytime (0-23 months) – 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM

🎒 After-School Drop-In (5-12 years) – 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

📚️ Reading Buddies (6-9 years) – 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM

🍬 Halloween "Meet & Treat" – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

📖 Pyjama Storytime (all ages) – 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM

🪦 Cemetery Tour: Halloween Edition – 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

❓️ Georgie's Local Trivia Night – 7:00 PM

🎭️ “Poets Wanted: Dead or Alive” with Open Mic – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

🏃 Steel & Oak Run Club – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Connect Youth (13+) – 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

❓️ Frankie G’s Trivia Night – 7:30 PM

October 30, 2025

🗣️ English Conversation Circles at the Welcome Centre – 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

👶 Babytime (0-12 months) – 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

🍼 Baby Social (0-23 months) – 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

👕 Free Men's Clothing at WorkBC New Westminster – 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

🗣️ The Talking Circle at Anvil Centre – 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

🎙️ New West Farmers Market Open Mic – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

🕵️ NWFM Scavenger Hunt – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

🍅 Farmers Market – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

🔍️ Escape Uptown Scavenger Hunt at The Cove Indoor Play – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

📚️ Drop-in Wildfires Bookshop – 5:45 PM

🏘️ TRAC: Rental Evictions – 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

🪡 Sewing Beginner(50+ years) at təməsew̓txʷ – 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

🎙️ Georgie's Local Karaoke Night – 7:00 PM

🎭️ Howe Sound New West Bingpot! Thursday Trivia – 7:00 PM

🎙️ The Terminal Pub Colossal Thursdays Karaoke – 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

🎤 Notorious Grey Fox Open Mic Jam – 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

👻🍫 We have built a Special Edition for Halloween Events - Click Here. 🎃 🍬 

🌿 Exhibit Your Heirlooms and History at New West’s Collected Memory 🕰️ 

Collectors, curators, family historians, and memory keepers — this one’s for you! 🌿 Collected Memory is coming this November, inviting community members to exhibit their cherished heirlooms and personal collections that tell the stories of loved ones and lives well-lived.

This unique event celebrates the deep connections between objects and memory, exploring what we collect today versus what our elders once treasured. It’s an opportunity to spark meaningful conversations around love, remembrance, grief, and legacy.

There’s no cost to exhibit, and public admission is by donation — making this a truly inclusive community gathering where every story matters.

📅 When: November 2025
📍 Where: Eighth & Eight Creative Spaces, New Westminster
💬 Who: Open to collectors, curators, and anyone with a story to share

👉 More info and exhibitor details here

🍂 Leaf It to the City: Extra Yard Waste Collection Returns This November🍁

It’s that time of year again, New West! From November 3–28, residents with curbside collection can set out extra kraft paper bags of leaves and yard trimmings, plus bundled branches, on their regular collection day.

An extra truck will be on the road during this 4-week program, so pickup of extra materials may happen at a different time than your usual green waste collection.

✅ Tips for success:
• Use kraft paper bags and keep bundles under 50 lbs
• Branches must be under 3 ft long and 3 in thick
• Place bags and bundles 1 m from your carts
• Cover bags if rain is expected

🚫 Not accepted: plastic bags, food scraps, rocks, sod, or soil.

Help keep New West beautiful this fall — and spread the word to your neighbours! 🍁
👉 More info here

⛈️ Rain Joke of the Day 🌧️ 

🌧️ What do you call it when raindrops play hide and seek? 🫣

💦 A “splashing” good time! 🙋 

Meme of the Day

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