Hope you are all well. There's a New West discord now, come check it out!

https://discord.gg/mjV9C9AW

If you are, LMK are we could join a team together!

Did something happen to YouTube subtitles in the past few months?

I’ve been watching YouTube with subtitles for years and while they’ve never been perfect I’ve started to notice some very strange issues with them recently which did not used to occur.

The most recent example I’ve seen was from a woodworking video where the word size was subtitled as “siiz”. I’ve also noticed things like random capitalization happening more often, like “sorry for not Uploading recently” or “thanks For watching”.

Are they using a new algorithm for auto-subtitles maybe?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN!

SmackDown Episode #1264

Venue: Nationwide Arena (Columbus, OH)

Attendance: 7,600

WWE's SmackDown Preview

• Bayley addresses the future of Damage CTRL
• LA Knight to throw down with Grayson Waller
• Bobby Lashley looks to beat the "cool" out of Carlito

New Westminster, BC – New Westminster City Council has approved a two-year organizational pilot project and strategy to address the overlapping crises of homelessness, mental health, and substance use. The pilot will focus on increasing immediate supports with the long-term goal of transitioning responsibility to senior levels of government.

The project is based on promising practices and lessons learned from other municipalities with the objective of advancing proactive, resilient and strategic organizational approaches that can be sustained long-term. The project will involve three inter-departmental staff teams which include:

• Crises Response Team – a new grouping of staff responsible for day-to-day crisis coordination and response, including outreach and support, addressing community requests, case management services, and providing referrals to Provincial teams.
• Operations Support Team - a group of existing City staff from engineering, fire, human resources, integrated services, and police supporting the new Crises Response Team.
• Policy Development and Advocacy Team – a group of existing City staff that continues lobbying senior levels of government for additional funding, resources, and supports needed to sustainably address the needs and issues associated with the three crises.

“New Westminster, like many communities, is facing the complex and inter-related crises of homelessness, mental health, and substance use. These crises have a profound impact not only on those directly suffering, but the community as a whole,” said Mayor Patrick Johnstone. “The City recognizes that the current responses to these crises are not doing enough and are straining our staff. We must implement a new people-centred approach that is more compassionate, proactive, responsive, and that requires a new focus and some new resources.”

The proposed pilot project will include extensive community engagement and involvement and will see the creation of two working groups with diverse representation. The implementation working group will include First Nations and Indigenous organizations, people with lived and living experience, and representatives from community and social service agencies. The advocacy working will include members from the business community and local residents.

“In order to respond to these three crises, we must structure our organization to be more innovative and nimble, as well as commit to continuous learning and adaption,” said Lisa Spitale, Chief Administrative Officer. “The formation of the three new staff teams will allow for dedicated focus and responsibilities while separating out day-to-day activities from policy development and advocacy work.”

“This is the work our community has been asking us to do” said Mayor Johnstone. “We have great partners in New West, and this approach will assure we are leveraging those supports to get better outcomes for everyone.”

Goals of the pilot project include enhanced relations with provincial bodies that have primary responsibility for addressing the three crises, the realization of a 24/7 shelter with 50 to 60 beds, a health connect and resource centre to address the needs of the unsheltered, and a supportive housing development with 50 to 60 units. To accomplish this, the City of New Westminster will work on establishing Memorandums of Understanding with BC Housing, the Fraser Health Authority, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, and the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, as well as ongoing engagement with First Nations and Indigenous organizations.

For more information on the City of New Westminster’s three crises pilot project, please visit www.newwestcity.ca/crises-response-project

Awesome news. They're doing some good things over in the world of Impact lately, I think I'm gonna start checking it out instead of Rampage from now on.

Blatantly stolen from https://newwestanchor.com/

Friday, Sept. 22

• Dance party. 9pm. Georgie’s Local.

Saturday, Sept. 23

• RiverFest. 10am. New West boardwalk.
• Dance party. 9pm. Georgie’s Local.
• MEASURE. Including an opening reception and artists’ talks. 1pm. New Media Gallery.
• Jazz Cats Social. 6:30pm. 620 8th St.
• Mushtari Begum Festival. 7pm. Massey Theatre.
• Salsa in the Park. 7:30pm. Pier Park.

Sunday, Sept. 24

• RiverFest guided tours. 10am. Various locations.
• Queensborough’s 13th annual shoreline clean-up. 10am. Thompson’s Landing Park.
• Boho fashion sale. Noon. 1245 Quayside Dr.
• Concert in the Park. Featuring Quayside Voices. 1pm. Upper Hume Park.

Monday, Sept. 25

• Boho fashion sale. 2pm. 1245 Quayside Dr.
• Poker night. 6:30pm. Sapperton District Taphouse.
• Open mic night. 7pm. Begbie’s.
• Trivia night. 8pm. The Terminal Pub.

Tuesday, Sept. 26

• Boho fashion sale. 2pm. 1245 Quayside Dr.
• WorkBC workshop. 4pm. Queensborough Community Centre.
• Open mic: standup comedy. 6pm. The Terminal Pub.
• Trivia night. 6:30pm. Kelly O’Brien’s.
• Piva presents: Jazz at the Anvil. Tickets start at $20. 7pm. Anvil Centre.
• Music bingo. 7pm. Paddlewheeler Pub.
• Open mic night. 7pm. Georgie’s Local.
• Name that tune! 7pm. Hops New West.

Wednesday, Sept. 27

• Trivia night. 7pm. Georgie’s Local.
• Trivia night. 7:30pm. Paddlewheeler Pub.

Ongoing

• The Interplay of Light. Until Oct. 1. Gallery hours. The Gallery at Queen’s Park.

I'll try my best to wake it up......

TLDR - Stay cool at these locations

Century House - 620 Eighth Street | 604-519-1066 Extended hours Monday, Aug. 14 to Thursday, Aug. 17: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm

Queensborough Community Centre - 920 Ewen Avenue | 604-525-7388

New Westminster Public Library - 716 Sixth Avenue | 604-527-4660

Anvil Centre - 777 Columbia Street | 604-515-3830

Starting today, take part in activities celebrating diversity, inclusion, and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Find activities at newwestcity.ca/pride-week. Highlights include:

• Pride Painters (11 - 18 years) tonight
• Trans, Gender Diverse, & Two-Spirit Inclusive Swim (TGD2SQ) (All Ages) on Aug. 12
• Music by the River - Pride Edition on Aug. 16

Pride Week in New Westminster is presented by New Westminster Pride Society with community partners and local businesses and runs Thursday, Aug. 10 to Sunday, Aug. 19. Find out more about the variety of events taking place during New West Pride Week at newwestpride.ca.

I’ll share screenshots if I can figure out how haha

I’ll share screenshots if I can figure out how haha

We all know Twitter is being rebranded as X, so we presumably should no longer be calling Tweets "Tweets", so what are they called now? The best answer gets 10 karma and a verified checkmark*

https://12thstreet.ca/

Sun, July 23rd 11:30am~5:00pm

Three Stages of Live Music Fun For The Kids and FOOD FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

12th Street Fest New West Entertainment Schedule

Metrotown Mitsubishi Community Stage @ Hamilton & 12th

11:30 Blue Express
    Homegrown New Westminster Blues
12:30 ROOTS Peruvian Folk Dance
    Exciting, Colourful, Traditional Folk Dance from Peru!
1:00 The Sweet P’s
    Patsy Thompson & Pamela Dominelli deliver soulful roots and blues
2:00 ROOTS Peruvian Folk Dance
    Exciting, Colourful, Traditional Folk Dance from Peru!
 2:30 Arsen Shomakhov
    Explosive Electric Guitar Blues from one of Vancouver’s finest
 4:00 James “Buddy” Rogers
    Juno Nominated Blues Artist delivers the festival’s Blues Finale!!!

Seventh Avenue Stage @7th Ave & 12th

11:30 The Neil Douglas School of Music
    New West’s premier music school takes the stage
1:00 Ed, Salve and Friends
    Remember the Jazz Club on 6th? Salve is back!
4:00 Syndicate
    12th Street’s very own Rock solid Classic Rockers!

Match at Starlight Casino Stage @ 6th Ave & 12th

11:30 David Boxcar Gates
    One of Canada’s most renowned acoustic Piedmont, Ragtime & Delta Blues Guitar players. 
1:00 Dogwood & The Shakers
    Next Generation Rockabilly!
2:30 The Mike Van Eyes Band
    Rockin’ piano with boogie-woogie and the blues
4:00 The Slip~ONS
    Hard Driving Garage Punk

12th Street will be packed with Music, Food, and Family Fun! The challenging jobs are taken but we could use a handful of volunteers to help watch the cross streets of 12th.

Sign up now as a “Lawn Chair Lane Supervisor” and we’ll get you outfitted in one of our fantastic 2023 edition TeeShirts. Lots of volunteers mean lots of breaks!