Port Coquitlam Community Highlights

Show some appreciation to your favourite local business with a nomination for our Best Biz Awards. 🌟 Your favourite business could win one of these awards:

⭐ Best Bite in Town
⭐ Best Sip in Town
⭐ Best Local Find
⭐ Best Local Service
⭐ Family Favourite
⭐ Business of the Year

Nominate by August 16 at portcoquitlam.ca/bizawards.

Awesome shop in Port Coquitlam.

🌟 Celebrate Noruz in style with Saba Nuts and Dried Fruit! 🌿 Find all your festive essentials and delightful treats here. Let the celebrations begin! 🎉

What could your summer ticket be worth? 🎉

The PoCo Community Foundation's Summer 50/50 Raffle is back — and every ticket helps build a stronger, more vibrant Port Coquitlam!

From community celebrations and local events to programs that make a real difference, your support stays right here in our community. And while you're helping local initiatives thrive, you could also take home 50% of the jackpot!

☀️ Tickets are available now through August 17th (https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/pccf-summer )
🎟️ Purchase online or find us at community events throughout the summer
📅 Final Draw: August 18th at 11:00 AM

The more our community gets involved, the bigger the jackpot grows!
City of Port Coquitlam Steve Darling

Your lilac just finished blooming. Now the important part begins.

What you do in the next few weeks — specifically with those spent flower clusters and the oldest woody branches — decides what next spring looks like.

Most people do nothing. The full guide for what to do instead is in the first comment, including the fix for a lilac that's been ignored for years.

We’re launching the PoCo Community Foundation 50/50 — and this is your chance to have some fun while giving back to the community we all care about!

For years, the Foundation has supported local programs that strengthen our community — from food security and mental wellness to youth initiatives, seniors programs, arts, culture, education, and healthcare supports.

Now it’s your turn to join in!
✨ Buy a ticket.
✨ Spread the word.
✨ Help make an even bigger impact.

And hey … you might even walk away with HALF the jackpot, which is just over $1,000.

Every ticket helps support local charities delivering much-needed services right here in our community. Who's in?

Get your tickets here: https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/pccf-summer
City of Port Coquitlam Steve Darling

Join us as our guest on May 19th!
7PM
2211 Prairie Avenue
Port Coquitlam BC V3B 1V8
for a presentation from Rob Sabo on figs!
Rob is a high school shop teacher in Surrey. He grew up building and growing things since he was large enough to walk. A few years before COVID he became interested in rare or interesting fruit and then heavily into fig cultivation as well as a number of other less common fruits and berries. Currently he has between 150 and 200 small trees, about 2/3 of which are figs of one sort or another. Currently he is one of the admins for the “BC Fig Growers” group on FaceBook!
Rob will cover:
The origins of the fig
Types of figs
Requirements for growing a fig
Requirements/techniques for cold climate fig growing.
Figs for our region - season length and harvest periods.
Pruning
Propagation methods

One more sleep to the PCGC Famous Plant Sale! Look at all these raffle prizes to be won! April 25th from 9 to noon - 2211 Prairie Avenue, PoCo.