In my life, I have lived in four different communities, no one say "greater" than the next. Each of varying sizes and geographies. Now other than these four places being not only in the same timezone but the same province, you wouldn't assume that they had much in common. But first I should name there places, they are Nanaimo, Prince Rupert, Prince George and Port Hardy, and despite their names Prince Rupert and Prince George don't have all that much in common. One of the things that all four of these places do have in common though is that they each have an annual community event. For Nanaimo it's the Marine Festival and Bathtub races, Prince Rupert has SeaFest, Prince George has the PGX, and Port Hardy has FiLoMi days. Now I call these community events because they are not associated with any national or other holiday and they also have the fortunate side effect of show casing local businesses, displaying local artistic talents, and just generally showing all that the community has to offer.
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| Fireworks Also Commonly Accompany Community Events |
What I like about these events is that they are very much all inclusive and help to bring very diverse communities together. Now in saying this I am very unsure about how events like this would work in larger places because I lack all experience in larger places, you know for anything more than visits. An example of the places I am referring to would be like Vancouver or Toronto.
So the best advice I can think to give is that no matter where you live, how ever long that you've lived there or however old or young you are. If you are somewhere that does any sort of event like this, I highly recommend that you attend not only because they can be fun but you are also supporting that community. And if you are new to the place it's a nice environment to meet people.
Post Script: Some of these events include parades. Now parades mean free candy, and I mean who doesn't like free candy.
