AGM directors for 2018-2019 Thanks to everyone who came to our AGM November 21. The directors for the next year are: Nathan Evans, Jim Foulkes, Bill Potma, Don Schuetze, Deanna Welters and Amar Virk. Destructive beavers create floods, wreck trails Humans no match for industrious rodents Ken Crosby, Surrey's Natural Areas Coordinator, offers the [...]
NOW CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who applied. Green Timbers Heritage Society SNAP is a unique partnership between three local non-profit organizations and the City of Surrey. SNAP’s goals are to empower youth as future leaders in environmental conservation and education; to restore and enhance natural areas, wildlife habitat and Surrey’s urban forest; and to promote [...]
Save the date! Wednesday, November 21, 2018 Ricky's All Day Grill Evergreen Mall, 8958 152 St, Surrey Gathering and networking: 5:30 Dinner and meeting: 6:00-8:30 Learn about: What the Surrey Natural Areas Partnership accomplished in 2018 Overview of issues facing the Green Timbers Urban Forest and the Green Timbers Square Mile Please RSVP to info@greentimbers.ca
Fall colours along Green Timbers Way. Annual General Meeting and Dinner: Wed Nov 21 Save the date! Wednesday, November 21, 2018 Ricky’s All Day Grill Evergreen Mall, 8958 152 St, Surrey Gathering and networking: 5:30 Dinner and meeting: 6:00-8:30 Learn about: What the Surrey Natural Areas Partnership accomplished in 2018 Overview of issues facing [...]
An old surveyor mark on a tree on the trail just behind the RCMP compound. Next meeting with special presentation Our next meeting is Tuesday Sept 4 at the Surrey Nature Centre. We'll start at 6:30 and power through any business before our guests from VALTAC give a presentation from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. Please share this [...]
Rabbit on the BC Hydro cut. Rabbits can be best seen early in the morning or at dusk. Society news The SNAP program (Surrey Natural Areas Partnership) will be winding up at the end of the month. This year there are 14 people funded through Canada Summer Jobs grants. They are divided into three teams: [...]
30th Anniversary Saturday June 9, 2018 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the bylaw establishing the Green Timbers Urban Forest (and Sunnyside Acres too). It's also the Surrey Nature Centre's 10th anniversary. We marked the occasion with walking tours and partnering with the SNAP team and the Surrey Nature Centre. The day was beautiful [...]
2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the bylaw that created the Green Timbers Urban Forest. The Green Timbers Heritage Society will be at the lake with the Surrey Natural Areas Partnership team and lead tours of Green Timbers and trips past the inaugural plantation (the beginning of replanting in B.C.) to the Surrey Nature Centre [...]
With great sadness we must say farewell to Susan Lois Lehmann of Surrey BC. Born in New Westminster on April 14, 1951, Susan passed of natural causes suddenly and quietly, on December 1, 2017. Susan was a passionate individual who distinguished herself in various aspects of theatre, including Dance (Royal Winnipeg Ballet; Charlottetown Festival), and [...]
Susan Lehmann memorial service Susan's memorial has been set for April 14th, 2:00 pm, at First Memorial Funeral Services Fraser Heights Chapel, 14835 Fraser Highway, Surrey, BC For those not familiar with her, Susan was involved with saving Green Timbers from the very beginning, helping her father, Wady Lehmann, with getting signatures on the petition. She [...]
November Road through Hawthorne Park approved via Alternative Approval Process Construction will begin in January despite public pressure to drop the project (December 4, 2017) "He [Pettigrew] speculates that the City of Surrey will likely use the same process with Green Timbers Park, where another road has been slated for construction." http://runnermag.ca/2017/12/road-through-hawthorne-park-approved-via-alternative-approval-process/ COLUMN: [...]
Annual General Meeting: Monday, November 27 at Ricky's Restaurant in Fleetwood, Evergreen Mall, 8958 152 Street. We'll start to gather at 5:30, get the meeting going by 6:30 and wrap up around 8:00 pm. All are welcome, but you'll have to be a member ($5) to vote. We'll be putting forward new bylaws for [...]
The SNAP team on opening day in May. The team has wrapped things up for this year. Hi everyone, Our next GTHS meeting is Wednesday, September 6 at the Surrey Nature Centre. We'll gather at 6:30 pm, start the meeting by 7:00 pm and wrap things up at 8:30 pm. You are invited, [...]
First row: Njeri Kontulahti (Branch Manager), Nathan (SNAP), Donna Rowand (Assistant Branch Manager), Mimi Murray (Account Manager), Danica Gill (Account Manager); back row: Jasbir Sidhu (Account Manager), Rose Dhillon (Account Manager), Jasbinder Dhami (Financial Service Rep), Adarsh Grewal (Wealth Advisor) Vancity’s Surrey City Centre Community Branch presented Nathan Ross, program coordinator of [...]
John Tompson turning a post on his home-made lathe. John was a tree planter at the nursery and involved with the preservation of the forest in the 1980s The bowl was turned from wood of a downed tree in the inaugural plantation John Tompson (1914 – 2003) was always [...]