In the Community

While the world and daily life have shifted as we know it, residents of Ladner and Tsawwassen living with dementia still need to access support and education. To help fund these services locally, the Alzheimer Society of B.C.

It has been another amazing week of giving and generosity to the staff at Delta Hospital. The Delta Hospital & Community Health Foundation has been coordinating donations of food, drink and gestures of good will for the past month.

An old house on Ladner Trunk Road has been saved from the wrecking ball. Construction is underway on a new residential project at 5454 Ladner Trunk Rd.

Deltassist is offering a pair of free online workshops open to anyone in the community who needs help strengthening their emotional well being.

Jody Reid got quite the surprise for her 50 th birthday when she found 50 flamingos and a large sign on the front yard of her Savoy Street home last Thursday morning.

Mamas for Mamas South Delta helped brighten the day for 50 moms over the Mother’s Day weekend. A parking lot party – all while social distancing and following COVID-19 health protocols --was held on Saturday, May 9 at Cedar Park Church in Ladner.

Sacred Heart Elementary’s Odyssey of the Mind team is familiar with out-of-the-box thinking, so a COVID-19 roadblock wasn’t going to stand in its way of competing at the world championship level.

The above Delta Optimist file photo from 1973 shows Lloyd Taylor at his shoe repair shop in Ladner. He was son-in-law of Ted Taylor, who ran a harness shop for years, and the two went into partnership in 1946.

Students from four Delta high schools will be competing for the Game of Apps championship title against students from six other B.C. communities on Sunday, May 24.

Let’s take a step back in time and check out what was making news on this day in Delta 107 years ago. The May 17, 1913 edition of The Delta Times had a front page story about the tragic death of six men killed when their steamer Ophir caught fire.