Nicole Hancock
Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony ...

Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.

Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony to heal Chedoke Creek

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Lots of beer cans and sunglasses — cleaning up B.C. lakes is a labour of love for these divers

Lots of beer cans and sunglasses — cleaning up B.C. lakes is a labour of love for these divers

With the increase in recreation around the Lower Mainland's favourite lakes, there's been an increase in lake trash says the volunteer divers who collect it. "The trash has definitely increased in all the places we've noticed," said Henry Wang, a diver and co-founder of Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans. In past years, he didn't find any garbage until he was under 35 feet of water in Sasamat Lake in Port Moody, Wang said. "This year ... the garbage started at 17 feet and I never got past 21 feet of water. I never even reached the previous garbage patch that started much deeper," he told host Gloria Macarenko on CBC's On The Coast.

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