The fifth annual Winter Celebrations at Anvil Centre in downtown New Westminster, British Columbia, offers family-friendly theatre, music, comedy and more.
On a cloudless summer morning, a begoggled Rong Wang paddles in the backyard with her husband and two children among a flotilla of floats. The speaker sparks tunes; watermelon chills in the cooler. Their friends, the Varams, arrive and plunge right in, eight swimmers splashing about in the 80-degree water.