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Rebecca Bollwitt
@miss604.com
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Miss604.com est. 2004
🏆 2025 City of Vancouver Award of Excellence for Entrepreneurship
🦋 Co-Author: Bluesky for Dummies (out now!)
📰 Columnist & Photographer
📚 Author & Technical Editor
💻 Managing Partner sixty4media
💟 @johnbollwitt.com
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Also, I rode the carousel at Burnaby Village for the first time in my life and it was a HOOT.

🎠 C.W. Parker Carousel (1912) rides are $2.85.
A restored 1912 carousel with painted wooden horses frozen in galloping poses. Metal stirrups and brass poles. Red beams with lightbulbs in the canopy above
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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The Christmas tree inside Elworth at Burnaby Village reminds me of my grandparents’ house and I want to go hunt for some chocolate ornaments in there circa 1988.
Inside a restored 1911 house with a red rug, tiled fireplace, sconces, and chandelier. A grand, round Christmas tree in the corner is stuffed with decorations including red and silver garlands, tinsel, paper and glass ornaments, and lots of lights. There are some wooden houses and a barn at the base with a train track wrapped around it on the floor.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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It's the December issue of Megaphone Magazine and that means free wrapping paper (on top of all the great stories, photos, art, and reporting).

In this month's issue my column features Aunt Leah's and their social enterprise Christmas tree lots.

Find a vendor: megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
Screenshot of a magazine cover. MEGAPHONE $5 then a photo of two people in festive holiday pajamas holding a wrapped gift with a red bow on top of it. Caption: NAUGHTY OR NICE? A look back at our stories over the past year reveals who's on Santa's list Free Wrapping Paper Inside
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Festive Village (FREE) Burnaby Village
Low perspective along an asphalt path next to a puddle on a rainy night. Two people post for a selfie in front of a lit up and decorated gazebo with a Christmas tree at the centre
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Let’s goooo #VWFC #MLSCupFinal @whitecapsfc.com @southsiders.ca
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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My favourite part of the Toy Mountain broadcast every year on CTV is waiting for the sign-off at the end to see what toy @johnbollwitt.com will be holding.

Almost 10,000 toys donated and $93,000 raised so far for the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau!

(He’s waving lightsabers, back left)
Photo of a television screen and a broadcast of a big group of people standing in front of a giant pile of toys. They’re all waving and closed captioning on screen says THANK YOU FOR SHARING PART OF YOUR EVENING WITH…
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The December issue of @megaphonemagazine.com Megaphone Magazine is now available from vendors on the streets of Vancouver. In my column this month I feature Aunt Leah’s and their social enterprise tree lots.

megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
Two people in festive pajamas on a MEGAPHONE magazine cover holding a gift Naughty or Nice? A look back at our stories over the past year reveals who's who on Santa's list
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Really happy with how my #Vancouver postcards turned out. I picked a couple of my favourite photos and got them printed. Here’s this classic view from Stanley Park (the actual postcards don’t have a watermark).
A postcard on top of envelopes and the backs of other postcards. It features a view of Stanley park’s forest on the left, then the downtown Vancouver city skyline with towers on the right. The fluffy white clouds in the sky and the whole scene is reflected in the calm waters of coal harbour
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The Ferris Wheel is up and running at the Vancouver Art Gallery plaza. Free on Tuesdays thanks to @downtownvan.bsky.social 🎡

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In a plaza in Vancouver: On the left is a stone statue of a lion atop the art gallery steps. Then a Ferris wheel on the right. In the background is the facade of the historic hotel Vancouver. A very grey rainy afternoon with pops of color on the Ferris wheel
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Robson Street is going to smell so nice this weekend. Designers are working to setup Fleurs de Ville Noel which features floral and plant sculptures up and down the street, and around Downtown Vancouver
Standing in a plaza behind a sculpture made of flowers and cedar - it’s says JOY but since I’m behind it the letters are backwards spelling YOJ It’s a grey and rainy day in the city
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Good news! There’s a new light-up Vancouver sign in downtown Vancouver
Bad news, it’s so close to the sidewalk you need to use 0.5 and also almost back up into traffic on Georgia to get a photo with all the letters in it 😅

#vancouver #canada #cities
A dark cloudy and rainy day in front of a plaza with a tall Christmas tree and Ferris Wheel in the background. The main focus is big white letters on the ground that spell out VANCOUVER with red light bulbs.
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Mornings on the Seawall, with the gal who never sleeps.

#vancouver #sunrise #canada
A dark photo of a bronze statue on a large boulder that’s in the waters of Burrard Inlet. The statue is called Girl in Wetsuit and it’s a person in flippers and wetsuit sitting on the rock with diving goggles on their head. In the background slivers of orange sunrise between dark grey clouds, and the silhouette of Burnaby Mountain
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Also today in Gastown (it was a busy day) I had the theme from The NeverEnding Story story stuck in my head. IYKYK.
In an alley between two buildings, a brown brick building on the left and red concrete kn the right. Telephone and utility poles form an “H” in the centre. In the background is the iconic Harbour Centre/Vancouver lookout building with its rounded top tower that features a revolving restaurant and looking Looking up water street in Gastown from the middle of the road which is a patchwork of asphalt and cobblestone. On the right, steam rising from the Gastown Steam Clock and a person is heading for the crosswalk. In the distance on the left is Harbour Centre/Vancouver Lookout building with a tower at its top with 360 degree views
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Today in Steveston ⚓️
#RichmondBC
From a wooden pier, a calm river with ships docked in the late afternoon sun. A fishing vessel is front and centre with blue hull and the name “Bastion” on the bow
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Also give me a plywood cutout photo op any day, I’m there. This is the one at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery.
In an industrial building with exposed beams and cement floor, I’m posing with my head on top of a wood cut out that is painted like it’s a cannery worker in apron and boots holding a knife in one hand and a fish in the other
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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The Grinch trying to steal this tree - one of many fun decorated display at the Steveston Festival of Trees in Steveston at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery 🎄

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A whimsical Christmas tree that looks like it’s from Whoville, with a crooked drooping top and topper that’s so bent over it’s pointing down. Then, two green fuzzy legs and arms in a red and white Santa suit that look as though a creature is trying to pick up the decorated Christmas tree. It’s located in the cannery building with exposed wooden beams.
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Holiday season at the beach in Vancouver

#photography #canada
A sunny day with blue sky and white wispy clouds. A dock/station of bike share bikes with only two bikes docked, a Christmas tree setup in a plaza, and big block letters - a light installation - that spell out “Merry”. A person in a blue coat is walking by the sign. In the background are palm trees and then the beach/water of English Bay
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Me tomorrow walking around Vancouver

#VWFC #ThomasMüller @whitecapsfc.com
Kings of the North 🏆
Kings of the West 🏆
Kings of Cascadia 🏆
….
Paused screenshot of a soccer player in a whitecaps jersey wearing two hats and two toques that say Conference Champions
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Peaks of the sulphur pile
Peaks of the north shore
Peaks of the clouds
#vancouver
A moody morning looking across Burrard Inlet at the giant yellow sulphur pile at the north shore terminals surrounded by various industrial structures. In the background. The forests and snow-dusted peaks of the mountains. In the sky, the clouds have peaks like the mountains, not rounded and fluffy
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Tonight in Vancouver
Frozen at The Stanley (Arts Club Theatre) ❄️
A child was crying as they were leaving the theatre cause they weren’t ready for it to be over 🥺
People standing under a theatre marquee. The vertical sign says Stanley and the neon sign above the marquee, advertising the show, Disney’s Frozen, says Stanley. It’s night time.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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The Robson Square ice rink in Downtown Vancouver opens December 1st.
Nighttime photo of a public ice rink outdoors in Downtown Vancouver in a plaza with big snowflake light sculptures, purple lights over the rink, and a dome roof. Above the roof is a street level plaza with strings of blue lights. In the background are hotels and office towers
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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This dog approves of the new bioswales on Robson and Bute 🐕🌱
A green patch next to a sidewalk on a downtown street. There’s a big cement block with the word RAIN carved on it where a person is sitting (facing away) with a dog (facing the camera) as traffic waits for the green light
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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BC Entertainment Hall of Fame induction ceremony coming up! Outside Harbour Dance on Granville ⭐️ @starwalkbc.com
A black box covering a spot on a sidewalk that is surrounded by a red carpet. It will reveal a bronze star Honouring inductees
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Just went to the Hyatt in Downtown Vancouver and they have their Gingerbread Lane setup for the season. There’s a reindeer bus gingerbread house!!

#transit #delicious
A holiday display with a sign in front, indicating this is gingerbread contest entry # 2. It’s a transit bus, wearing a red Rudolph nose, made of gingerbread
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Today is International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women

We honour every survivor carrying the weight of fear, resistance, and survival.
A purple graphic from the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre with calendar icons and dates: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence November 25 - December 10 Nov 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Dec 6: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women Dec 10: Human Rights Day Know the facts. Believe survivors. Support the women of the DTES.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM