James Bay Community Project

☀️ A Friendly Reminder: Walk & Talk Starts Tomorrow!

Unlike today's grey skies, the forecast for tomorrow is promising beautiful summer sunshine — perfect for our very first Walk & Talk gathering.

Walk & Talk is a welcoming walking group for parents and their little ones. Come enjoy a walk through the neighbourhood, connect with other parents, and spend time outdoors with your babies.

Thursdays, June 4 – August 13
12:30–2 pm
Meet at our front doors, 547 Michigan St.

To register, please contact Liz Hardy at [email protected] or call (250) 388-7844 ext. 312.

We look forward to walking with you!

Pride Month is a reminder that everyone deserves to feel welcome, connected, and part of the community. As a neighbourhood house, creating spaces where people feel they belong is something we strive for every day.

This spring has been full of life! Thanks to the generous support of our neighbour and friend Diane Townsend of Beckley Cottage Preschool on Parry St, we got to experience the magic of watching baby chicks hatch in the Family Centre. Adults and children alike had the chance to hold and gently touch the chicks before they returned to Diane’s backyard chicken coop after spending a week or so with us. Pure joy and excitement!

It is also our second year of watching frog eggs grow into tadpoles and then frogs, thanks to one of our families, who brought them to us from her parents’ pond on Salt Spring Island. We watched them hatch, steadily grow, and become more active in the aquarium. Some children are so interested that they run into the Family Centre to check on the tadpoles as soon as they arrive to play. The frogs will be returned to the same pond on Salt Spring Island once they have fully grown.

And finally, we also watched the process of caterpillars slowly transforming into butterflies. They arrived as tiny caterpillars, ate and ate until they formed a chrysalis, and then emerged as beautiful Painted Lady butterflies after 7–10 days. They were released into the garden one sunny afternoon!