Green tea in Vancouver is a way of life. Prepared in clear tea glass containers, on the go at your favourite cafe, or even mixed up into delicious recipes or ice cream treats. In fact, 27% of Canadians now consider themselves primary tea drinkers, and it just might be green tea leading that charge.
Drinking green tea has wellness benefits like increased hydration, for better everyday living, and a quick moment of down time and relaxation. Green tea contains flavonoids and consumption of one cup of also increases antioxidant capacity in the blood.
Tetley Glow Green Tea Plus (with grapefruit, aloe vera and hibiscus)
Tetley Figure Green Tea Plus (spice blend plus cinnamon, orange peel, ginger and matcha)
Tetley Aware Green Tea Plus (fruit blend plus blackcurrant, ginseng, guarana, and matcha)
Tetley Canada has over 50 different varieties of teas — herbal, specialty flavoured black teas, red teas, orange pekoe — and a variety of pure and natural green teas. To celebrate and promote their refreshing green teas that have offered up a gift basket valued at $150 for one lucky Miss604 reader. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment here listing how you drink/prepare your tea (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
Tetley’s green tea line-up is 100 per cent pure and natural using ingredients such as matcha, guarana, aloe vera and hibiscus — and they contain zero calories. To learn more you can visit the Tetley “Better U” Facebook page to ask questions about the benefits of tea and their three new green tea blends.
I will draw one winner of the prize pack at random from all entries next Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 12:00pm. Update The winner is Katie B!
The Vancouver Lego Games are coming up on Sunday, April 28, 2013 and will include an afternoon of games, prizes, and fun for the whole family.
How it Works
Each person in attendance can participate and will be provided bricks. Those wanting to throw their hat in the ring will have 15 minutes to build a unique creation to go along with a theme provided by the organizers. Judges will then choose the winner from each age category and prizes will be awarded.
You can also bring your own creation (no exact sets) to showcase your own Lego building skills. The Vancouver Lego Games simply ask that the creation fit in a space that is 12″ x 12″ so that pieces can be displayed properly.
Tickets and Location
Stop by the Burnaby Firefighters’ Club in Metrotown (6515 Bonsor Avenue, Burnaby) from 2:00pm to 4:00pm to join in on the fun. Registration starts at 1:30pm for the Bring Your Own segment. Tickets are $10* for participants and $3* for spectators with proceeds supporting Canuck Place Children’s Hospice.
Follow the Vancouver Lego Games on Twitter for event updates and information.
*Plus ticket processing fees.
There is another theme to this week’s roundup of photos from the Miss604 Flickr Pool as I’m still down in Austin for South by Southwest: The SeaBus – faithfully transporting commuters to and from the North Shore across Burrard Inlet. I’ll return to the regular photo collection once we get back above the 49th parallel but for now, I sifted through the Flickr group and plucked out some beautiful images that all feature what our friend Dave calls the “$4 Harbour Cruise”.
As always, please click through on these images to view more work from the photographers and feel free to share your own photos with the Miss604 Flickr Pool. View all photo collections here.
It was in March of 1921 that the Capitol Theatre opened at 820 Granville. The movie palace was massive for its time (the silent movie era) with 2,500 seats. It had a grand marquee and it’s where legendary theatre manager Ivan Ackery got his start in the business as an usher.
1926 – Archives Item: CVA 1399-540 & 1934 – VPL Number: 23587. Dominion Photo Co.
On opening night of the Capitol Theatre, March 12, 1921, famous silent film star Wallace Reid, once billed as “the most popular screen idol in America,” burst through a paper screen singing and dancing to great applause. With a blare of trumpets, the Capitol Theatre Orchestra presented an overture, and Mayor R. H. Gale took the stage stating what a great day it was for Vancouver’s progress. Before the “photo-play” began, he hoped the evening would “provide a clean and uplifting picture.” It was probably an earnest wish. The upheaval of the previous decade with the First World War, the Spanish flu epidemic, and housing shortages was fresh in people’s minds, and the evening must have made for welcome entertainment for the 2,076 Vancouverite’s in attendance. The Roaring Twenties were ready to roar. [PSTOS]
Ivan Ackery went on to manage the Orpheum and he was kept on his toes by the Capitol’s manager Charlie Doctor as each constantly tried to out-do the other with stunts and showcases. This was the heyday of movie houses on Granville.
1943 – Archives Item: CVA 1184-709 & 1940s – Archives Item: 1184-3587. Photographer: Jack Lindsay.
When the Capitol theatre premiered the Elvis Presley film Love me Tender in 1956, Doctor invited all Vancouver citizens with the last name “Presley” to attend the film’s premiere for free. The publicity for the Love Me Tender opening hosted by radio DJ Red Robinson made for a lineup of excited teenagers that extended down the block. [PSTOS]
It wasn’t until 1977 that the Capitol was converted to a multiplex cinema, it was the first movie house with more than 3 screens to appear in the Lower Mainland. The grand marquee was gone. Escalators ushered you in off Granville and looped you around to the screens on the Seymour street side of the building.
1967 – Archives Item: CVA 780-50.
It was a beacon for a new type of theatre experience that would only last until 2005, but it was pretty amazing that it survived that long, in some form, given the evolution of the area. All around the Capitol, things were changing on Granville and other theatres on the block were converted to bars. From The Puget Sound Pipeline: “Liquor licences now hang where movie posters used to be. In the buildings where the warm hum of the Wurlitzer organ echoed, the sound of a DJ’s redundant beat plays out onto the sidewalk.”
After demolition and re-build, the front location of the Capitol on Granville is where Quicksilver and Urban Outfitters are today and around the back, it’s the VSO School of Music, the Orpheum Annex (which I hear is a beautiful venue) along with a residential tower and Dunn’s on street level. It hasn’t stood the test of time like the Orpheum, but the Capitol is still a venue and a legacy, in the heart of our entertainment district, that is worth remembering and celebrating.
Take a bunch of Canadians, set them down in Texas and a hockey game just might break out. Five Hole For Food in partnership with Vancouver’s hottest startup, HootSuite, hosted a charity street hockey game in Austin at South by Southwest (“SXSW”) on Sunday, March 10, 2013.
John Bollwitt and Richard Loat setup the nets
They took the Five Hole formula — playing pick-up games of street hockey in communities while collecting donations for the local food banks — and hosted company teams, the Dallas Stars Ice Girls, Texas Stars players, and heavy-hitters in the tech realm like Guy Kawasaki for the afternoon.
The HootBus (HootSuite’s shuttle bus here in Austin for the SXSW conference) delivered players while the Dallas Stars community team setup a fantastic arena (with inflatable boards) in the parking lot of a church on 9th and Trinity. The Capital Area Food Bank of Texas was on hand to collect monetary and non-perishable food item donations from players and spectators.
Five Hole for Food team members, including founder Richard Loat, have traveled coast to coast across Canada playing summer street hockey for several years and this was their first event in the USA. Richard reported on Facebook that they raised the equivalent of 7,500lbs of food for the Capital Area Food Bank, making the campaign in Austin quite the success.
Canadians have been making a splash at SXSW for years, with innovative individuals, ideas, and companies, but this is the first time that they’ve brought sticks, nets, and supported the local food bank. Follow Five Hole for Food on Twitter and Facebook to see where they’ll be facing off next and for more information about their Canadian tour this summer.
