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Ahoy JSCA Members: Here is what's "in the wind", coming events and items of interest at the Jericho Sailing Centre, Vancouver's Ocean Access Community Centre, for July 17-23, 2008 and beyond: Retro Hippie Alert!  Jericho
Park Celebrates its RootsParking at the Jericho Sailing Centre this weekend will be as rare as a crew cut on a hippie. If you don't dock your land yacht in your usual stall before 1600H Friday, or 0900H on Saturday and Sunday you may as well hitchhike a magic carpet ride in a rusty old, eight track equipped, flower child laden VW van with a groovy paint job and have them drop you off in the heavily defended Jericho Sailing Centre Loading Zone. The annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival is coming back to Jericho Beach Park. Not long after the formation of Jericho Park in the early nineteen seventies the first Vancouver Folk Music Festival here featured flower power, love beads, incense and peace: it was a celebration of freedom, political activism, and a love revolution fueled by cannabis, marked by random sporadic bare foot dancing, arts & crafts and, oh yeah, music- a mountain filled vista of mind mending mystical music to back up all that free speech in a magical Vancouver "Summer of Love"-it was a major "Be In". If you visit this year's Vancouver Folk Music Festival you'll notice not much has changed. If the wind blows from the west, other than the "up tight" parking situation, Jericho Sailing Centre users won't notice anything unusual this weekend except for some interesting retro hippie fashions and a few more strangers than usual bathing in our washroom basins and drinking water out of our hoses. If the wind blows out of the east it will carry a pot pourri of disjointed sound permeating from 5 stages of bongo laced alternative music and the accompanying supporting aromas to be a part of your psychedelic sailing weekend. In a public park nobody, including the JSCA, gets reserved parking. The only thing we are able to do is make our users aware, advise them to arrive early or use alternative methods of transportation and have vehicles which park in the loading zone efficiently serviced by Buster's valet parking. From there, we just have to hang loose and go with the flow. Non-conformists, alternative lifestylers driving "road less traveled" ideologies, ever more liberal thinkers further pushing social envelopes, surfers on waves of new consciousness - did today's users of Jericho Park evolve from 1970's hippies? There's certainly a good chance this weekends users did and if you can't beat 'em, you might as well join 'em. What could be so bad about a little more peace, love and happiness in your world? For info on the 2008 Vancouver Folk Music Festival trip over to www.thefestival.bc.ca Big Brothers Discovery Sailing Day  Last
Saturday the Discovery Sailing Club hosted their annual Big Brothers
Sailing Day BBQ giving 15 kids and their Big Brothers an opportunity
to enjoy ocean access through the Jericho Sailing Centre. Jericho
Rescue Team volunteers also gave the boys rides in the rescue
boats and the Sea Dragon Sea Scouts provided knot tying instruction.
Many Thanks to the Discovery Sailing Club members and Jericho
Rescue volunteers for sharing the community spirit of the Jericho
Sailing Centre. Thanks also to MacSailing for donating the use
of their kid size PFD fleet.JSCA GM Mike Cotter managed
to retain his championship at the annual Big Brothers Discovery
Day whistle eating contest downing 59 whistles in the alloted
2 minutes. We'd like to use the money to purchase native plants found
in the endangered Garry oak ecosystem to restore one of the
meadow areas at Jericho. So, please take a moment to log in
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The
Disabled Sailing Association fleet has seen a lot of action
this year allowing people with disablities to escape the confines
of a wheelchair and set themselves free on the sea. | For More Weather Information Please Click on Images Below |
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