Category: Giveaway

August 20^th 2013 is World Mosquito Day! To celebrate this day we are having a Raffle!

This is a day to commemorate Sir Ronald Ross’s discovery in 1897 that Mosquitos transmit disease. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been celebrating this day since the 1930’s.

A Little about the Raffle:

• 2 Net and Critter Sets
• 2 Bug Bottles
• 2 Magnifying Glassses
• 2 Nature Explorer Sets
• 2 Bug Bungalows

(50$ Value)

A Little about the Mosquito:

• The males usually live around a week or so and the females around a month (depending on conditions).
• There are around 2500 different types of mosquitos  and the females of most of these species need a blood meal to lay eggs, the male mosquitos feed on plant juices and saps.
• Mosquitos species vary – some bite humans while others bite animals or birds, some bite in the day and others bite at night.
• Mosquitos can drink twice their weight in blood! That’s like a 150 pound human drinking a 300 lb milkshake.

Rick Mercer has started a great initiative – Spread the Net – 10$ for each mosquito net donated.

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Congratulations to our Yoyo Raffle Winner! Sandra from Ontario!

Enter our Yay! For Yoyos Raffle

Today is June 6^th  National Yoyo Day! (On account of it being Donald Duncan’s Birthday).

Did you know that the world’s 2^nd oldest toy is the yoyo? (after dolls). In Ancient Greece 2000 years ago yoyos were made out of terracotta.

In the 1920s a man from the Philippines – Pedro Flores was a bellhop at a Californian Hotel who loved to carve yoyos out of wood and play with them, (yoyos were Popular in the Philippines).

 An entrepreneur Donald Duncan saw the yoyos and the rest is history. Duncan made the first plastic yoyos and developed the Butterfly model (makes it easier to land the trick on the string).

After the great yoyo boom in the early 1960’s the Duncan family ended up in court (trying to protect trademark issues) and ended up selling the company to Flambeau – a company that is still around!

This is the world’s biggest wooden operational yoyo.

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If you are in the Neighbourhood on Saturday April 13th (between 12:15 and 1:15) … Drop by and see us! (We will have free Helium Balloons and Small Fun Prizes!) at:

Little Mountain Baseball Opening Day ! (the Oldest Little League in Canada!)

At the Hillcrest Main Diamond
at 4595 Clancy Loranger Way, Vancouver
(South / East Corner of the park across from Queen Elizabeth Park and Midlothian Way and Phoenix Gymnastics).

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Welcome Spring!

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 Congratulations!  to Amy from Alberta – for Winning Our March Wind-up  Contest!