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Welcome to In The Village on False Creek, a unique project inspired by Live@YVR and 365 Days of Dining. Over the coming months it's my mission to draw from the myriad of things that make this new community awesome in order to bring you a weekly scoop. |
I know I promised you in the last two posts that I'd show you the building we moved into soon but there are so many awesome stories coming at me that I'm having a hard time keeping up. So the energy efficient, LEED certified, intelligent layout of our lovely new apartment and our building in general are going to have to wait once again, because a duckling rescue happened this week! If you've been reading for a while you know that nothing stops the presses at V.I.A. more than a good duckling rescue story.
This one started on the fifth floor of our neighbours, The Village Co-op, where their rooftop garden is, and the story was shared with me by my new friend Mindi Pettitt who runs a blog called HarbourLiving.ca about Vancouver Island events. She runs it remotely, out of her suite in the Village, and she takes time out to be a hero and save ducklings every now and then.
Mindi's been living in the Village with her husband Dave for about a year now and she told me that around the same time last year some ducklings made a similar escape from the fourth floor gardens where their mother must have a sweet nest hidden. Last year they took a bit of a rougher route, finding their way under a space near the balcony and basically falling off of the building into the street, so this year as soon as Mindi saw them she quickly rounded up some neighbours (Karoline, Jules and Jules' 7-year-old daughter, Jordan) and they worked as a team to corral the family of urban-dwelling fowl down the stairwell.
They then ushered them down the sidewalk all the way to the pond in Hinge Park, on the very West side of the Village, which they now call home!
Learn more at TheVillageOnFalseCreek.com and stay tuned each week as I expose another unique element of our new community.
