All ages are welcome at Ecole Puntledge Park School on Thursday, Oct. 12 from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. for the second annual Salmon Day Festival.
This celebration of 鈥榓ll things salmon鈥� follows the success of last year鈥檚 format, combining an after-school public event with an open house for parents and families.
Free activities include an Aboriginal welcome, musical acts by kids, smoked salmon (and bannock), and traditional storytelling inside a giant, inflatable salmon with Angela Brown from Vancouver鈥檚 Nylon Zoo.
Displays and hands-on activities will be presented by Project Watershed, Fisheries and Oceans, Comox Valley Nature, and Hand-In-Hand Early Years Nature Education, which will make art from fish prints.
The Morrison Creek Stream Keepers will conduct spawning tours. Pinks have arrived in high numbers in the creek, one of the most active spawning streams in the Valley, which crosses the school鈥檚 property only steps from the front door. To learn more about this remarkable annual migration into the Headwaters and how the creek channels are maintained, sign up for the walking tours at the Stream Keepers table. Wear decent footwear.
Don鈥檛 miss Tracy Kobus鈥� mural on the front of the school, depicting Coho heading upstream in a setting of maples and douglas fir, along with ravens, tree frogs and the Morrison Creek lamprey - as well as salmon-themed student displays inside as part of the school鈥檚 open house.
Note that Salmon Day activities are rain-or-shine. Parking is recommended in the neighbourhood.
FMI: EcolePuntledge.ca
