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SENIORS SCENE: Time is right for gardening

Kent Street Activity Centre's annual plant sale set for April 22

If you are digging in your garden and have plants, bulbs or grasses you are splitting, please keep the Kent Street Ativity Centre’s annual plant sale in mind.

They are accepting donations of outdoor plants, cuttings and seedlings on Friday, April 22 from 4-7 p.m. for sale the next day at the centre.

Thanks in advance for your support. Please call 604-541-2231 for more information.

• Have you received your copy of the White Rock Spring/Summer combined Recreation Guide in the Peace Arch News?

Guides are available for pick up at Kent Street Activity Centre, Centennial Arena and White Rock Community Centre, as well as White Rock Library, the museum and city hall. You can also view online at whiterockcity.ca

Call 604-541-2199 to register or set up a client number and family PIN for online access to a fabulous array of recreation programs and services.

• Explore Italian Deli’s and cheese markets with Kent Street Centre chef Pat Faulkner.

The Commercial Drive Culinary Adventure 55+ excursion still has some seats available for the Monday, April 4 trip. Please call 604-541-2199 to register.

• Join the conversation – the Spanish conversation, that is.

If you are looking to improve your skills in this beautiful language, meet up with the conversational Spanish activity group in the Kent Street library, Thursdays 10-11 a.m. A Recreation and Culture membership is required. Call 604-541-2231 for more information.

• All levels are welcome to register for Painting in Oils and /or Acrylics – a 10-week course beginning Friday, April 1, 9 a.m. until noon at Centennial Park Leisure Centre.

Explore painting basics, blocking in, brush handling, colour theory, composition and many other aspects of painting all under the guiding hand of professional artist Catherine Robertson. Call 604-541-2199 to register.

• Free cribbage and bid whist lessons are available to recreation and culture members on April 4 and 11, 1-2 p.m. in the Kent Street Activity Centre  classroom. You must reserve your seat at 604-541-2231.

Learn bid whist or cribbage basics and you will be playing in no time. Practise your newly learned skills and join the friendly bid whist and cribbage players on Thursday afternoons, 1-3:15 p.m.

• Not a member yet? Sign up today and enjoy the many benefits including the opportunity to join over 15 different activity groups at the centre.

Do you enjoy social dancing in the company of friends? Drop in to the Kent Street Activity Centre Wednesdays from 7:30-10:30 p.m. for dancing to live music. Buy your tickets at the door (opens at 7:00 p.m.). Refreshments served midway.

This week Greg Hampson will be on stage to keep your toes tapping.

The Kent Street Activity Centre, located at 1475 Kent St., is open to people 55 years of age or better. For information, call 604-541-2231.