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Across the Lower Mainland, countless youth have limited or no access to positive adult supervision and role models during unstructured evening hours. Youth, themselves, have spoken strongly in favour of programs that provide them with opportunities to gain skills and confidence. They want positive environments they can count on over time and in which they can built trusting relationships. Funding of $5,500, from the Sandel Fund and the Wintemute Fund, through the Delta Foundation, will...

Thousands of children and their families will splish splash their way through summer at no cost for many years to come with the opening of the Ladner Rotary Splash Park on July 14, 2018. The Delta Foundation was one of the early supporters of this community project. Over five years in development, the new splash park, which replaces an earlier 30-year-old one sponsored by Kinsmen, features a child friendly, no slip rubberized surface, a water...

This summer local children and families will be having fun with water at the new Ladner Rotary Splash Park in Ladner’s Memorial Park thanks to donations from three local greenhouse producers made through the Delta Foundation. Village Farms Founder and CEO Michael DeGiglio, centre, with CFO and Executive Vice President, Stephen Ruffini, left, present a cheque to the Delta Foundation for $5,000 to help sponsor the Ladner Rotary Splash Park, to Irene Forcier, 2nd left,...

To instill the elements of active, healthy living in children, towards making a healthy lifestyle a life-long habit, North Delta’s Hillside Boys and Girls Club has received $5,000 from the Delta Foundation for the Club’s Active Living Program. Delta Foundation Directors Richard Shantz and Walt Hayward present a cheque for $5,000 to Marcie Mark, Director, Resource Development, Boys and Girls Clubs of Southcoast BC and Kirsten Hamaoki, Coordinator of the Hillside Boys and Girls Club...

Millenium Greenhouses is supporting the new water play area in Ladner’s Memorial Park for local children and families with a generous donation of $3,000 to the Ladner Rotary Splash Park opening this summer. The gift is made in trust to the splash park through the Delta Foundation. Accepting a cheque for $3,000 from Millenium Greenhouses’s Shirvan Bakhtiyari (third from left), sponsoring the Ladner Rotary Splash Park, are Rotarians Irene Forcier and Bridget Jacob (2nd right)...

Children and families will be enjoying the new Ladner Rotary Splash Park this summer, thanks in part to a generous donation of $5,000 from Westcoast Vegetables Ltd. to the Delta Foundation in trust for the splash park project. Westcoast Vegetables is one of six local greenhouse producers which have contributed to the splash park project along with the rest of the local farming community. Ron Van Marrewyk (left) and brother Ray (second right), of Westcoast...

Little House Society is an addiction resource centre that offers clinical services, education and drug prevention strategies within the community of Delta. Delta Foundation has donated $2,500 to Little House to upgrade its website. https://www.littlehousesociety.ca/ Walt Hayward and Carlene Lewall (left, 2nd left) present a cheque for $2,500 to Little House President, Hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay (front row, 2nd right) and the Little House board of directors....

The Ladner Rotary Splash Park, opening this summer, can provide more for children and families at the site, thanks to a generous donation of $5,000 from Windset Greenhouse Grown Foods to the Delta Foundation in trust to splash park project. Windset is one of the local greenhouse producers which have contributed to the splash park project, through the Delta Foundation, along with the rest of the local farming community. Randi Church (left) and Shiho Uzawa...