Stories written by ztennant

The mysterious case of the lost chicken

When Donna Miazga showed up for work at her east Vancouver community centre early one rainy Saturday morning, just as she did every week, she was startled by an unusual noise: clucking. Running towards her was none other than a drenched chicken. “I was quite shocked.” Miazga found some crackers, crushed them up, fed the [...]

Cash flows to wild urban stream thanks to local community

A community group is rushing in to save one of the last two wild streams in urban Vancouver. Still Creek, which runs through east Vancouver’s Renfrew Ravine yards away from heavy traffic, has been a habitat for discarded shopping carts and plastic bags. But that’s changing as the Still Moon Arts Society, a community group [...]

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