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作者: 小叻 時間: 2009-2-4 11:32 標題: No More Celebration of Light this year!!!

http://www.celebration-of-light.com/_pdf/release_2009-02-04_2009_fireworks.pdf

nooo~~~ I went there every year!!

作者: B仔 時間: 2009-2-4 11:36

唔係丫FA。。。唔好啦～
唉～ D人趕盡殺絕，連煙草商都唔撐喇～ regulation excuse都唔知係咪嘅～

作者: Rainy 時間: 2009-2-4 11:39

下...... 真架? 又少達地方流連啦

作者: siumaibb 時間: 2009-2-4 11:55

經濟唔好，睇開d啦

作者: B仔 時間: 2009-2-4 12:06

唉～～～
好可惜。年年我都去，同愛人有D情趣架嘛～

作者: Rainy 時間: 2009-2-4 12:10

係囉 ... 今年冇得去.... 不過呢... 之前夠話唔搞啦.. 結果咪又搞... 遲下可能又話搞返了.....

作者: Ultraman 時間: 2009-2-4 12:21

No such big head shouldn't wear such a big hat la.
The poor government shouldn't host the upcoming winter Olympic by all means.

作者: Rainy 時間: 2009-2-4 12:22

講起 winter Olympic... it's like another story... I should say it's such a JOKE!....

作者: giginium 時間: 2009-2-4 12:46

oh no...that's too bad...it was such a fun event.

作者: giginium 時間: 2009-2-4 12:47

原帖由 Rainy 於 2009-2-4 13:22 發表
講起 winter Olympic... it's like another story... I should say it's such a JOKE!....

rainy~~you can open a new thread on this topic!~~

作者: Rainy 時間: 2009-2-4 12:48

whaaaa

oh.. shall I ? lols

作者: myversa 時間: 2009-2-4 13:45

too bad. Less and less fun in Vancouver..

let me see, the first year I came here, we had
First Night - canceled.
Celebration of CNY in PNE - canceled.
Celebration of CNY market in Lansdone parking lot - canceled.

Chinese Movie Theater - Gone with the wind.

作者: ACC-HE 時間: 2009-2-4 13:49

ya, you're right, myversa.

Should we all move to Toronto?

It's better, isn't it?

作者: 邊少 時間: 2009-2-4 13:53

2008之後成個世界都變了

作者: myversa 時間: 2009-2-4 13:54

no la. I still enjoy the weather here even though it's less fun.

It could not get any more worse, right?  What else can be canceled?

1. Polar Bear Swim in NY
2.  CNY in International Village
3.  CNY parade.
4.  Night Market in Richmond/Chinatown
5.  Canada Day parade.
6.  Halloween Ghost House in Metro Vancouver/PNE
7.  Christmas parade.

作者: myversa 時間: 2009-2-4 13:55

But I really do miss First Night.

A fun night for the New Year Eve.

作者: raima 時間: 2009-2-4 15:07

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/200 ... ghts-cancelled.html

Vancouver's summer fireworks festival cancelled

Vancouver's annual fireworks festival has been cancelled, organizers said Wednesday, blaming the economic downturn.

"It has been an exceptional 18-year event — the largest of its kind in the world — and it is a credit to our many exceptional sponsors that we kept the event going year after year," said Brent MacGregor, chair of the Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society.

"However, the current financial situation makes it impossible for us to continue."

"To our sponsors and operational partners, to the city of Vancouver, and most important to the residents and visitors who came each summer to watch the spectacular shows — thank you!" he said.

The HSBC Celebration of Light event drew huge crowds to the city's waterfront over several nights each summer to watch the fireworks.

The displays from various countries were staged on floating barges in Vancouver's English Bay.

It began nearly two decades ago as the Benson and Hedges Festival of Lights. When that sponsorship ended in 2001, the City of Vancouver and various other sponsors took over the event.

However, the event also had a reputation for drawing some unruly crowds, making the policing costs high, and it continued to struggle financially from year to year to meet the event's $4 million annual budget.

In the past eight years participating countries have included: Canada, USA, China, Spain, Mexico, Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden and South Africa, said MacGregor.

With approximately 350,000 to 400,000 spectators per night, for each of the four nights of the show, the event had an economic impact of over $37 million annually in direct visitor spending, he said

作者: raima 時間: 2009-2-4 15:10

原帖由 myversa 於 2009-2-4 14:55 發表
But I really do miss First Night.

A fun night for the New Year Eve.

i agree. it's probably the safest new year eve thing to do. and the whole family can go too.

作者: 小叻 時間: 2009-2-4 15:24

i miss the firework... hope someone will sponsor it later~~
i video taped last yr fireworks..it was so great!! just too much smoke on the sky~~ but i miss it soo much~~

作者: 快樂牛郎 時間: 2009-2-4 19:17

Finally they cut this crap out?
Looks like you are only sane when the economy is not doing well.

Let the Recession continue!

作者: paobobby123 時間: 2009-2-4 20:29

好囉~
少D環境污染, 又han番D錢 =)

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