White Rock Life on the 'rock'

Great evening at the raising of the Pride Flag tonight starting the Week of Pride in White Rock. Check out the other activities happening throughout the Peninsula come out enjoy and show your support for inclusivity. 🌈❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

Movie Night down at Semiahmoo First Nations Park to ight

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/white-rock-b-c-is-the-best-beach-town-on-the-salish-sea/

Our outdoors writer visits the ‘finest true beach town on the Salish Sea’ Beach hopping on the shoreline offers warm water, a landmark pier, stunning mountain and island vistas, and delicious fish and chips.

ALERT/Warning
This is a Neighbourhood Alert

This was posted tonight on the South Surrey Mom Group.

>> I had a really scary incident happen today at Sunnyside Park.

I have made a police report and I can only hope that this doesn’t happen to anybody else.

I went to the park with my one and a half year old son around 4:30 PM to play at the playground and run around the field. I parked near the pool and my son played on the playground there and there were people playing with dogs in the field and kids at the playground and other cars in the parking lot.
All of the sudden at about 4:45 PM it got really dark really quickly and I looked around and everyone was gone and there are no lights at the park. At this point my son was playing on the playground near the swings and the open field.
Then this man dressed all in black with a black hood on his head walked by on the path by the playground and said “hi there” to me and I thought he was on the phone so I didn’t answer him, but then he said “hi there” again and I said a friendly “hi” and he mentioned it’s getting cold and I said yeah it is, and he continued on his way down the path towards the baseball diamonds in the direction of Cranley Drive. My son kept playing and then a few minutes later I looked up and this same man was standing on the path watching us. He said “hi” and I said “hey…?” I said it sort of like what the heck, you already said hi to me a few minutes ago… At that point I had a gut feeling we should leave. So I picked up my son and I started walking away towards my car which was parked in the parking lot near the pool so it was a bit of a walk from the playground we were at. As I was walking past the bleachers I turned around and saw that he was following us at a distance. I kept walking towards the car and started taking off my son‘s winter jacket as I was walking so that I could get him in his car seat faster once we reached the car. I turned around every couple of steps to confirm where he was and saw that he was still following us. I unlocked the car, put my son in his car seat and when I looked up I couldn’t see him anymore. I ran to the driver side, got in and locked the doors and turned on the car which lit up the area with my headlights and he was standing about ten feet in front of my car.
I was so scared I just put the car in reverse and left, I didn’t even look at him or think about taking my phone out to take a picture of him or video record any of this, there was no time. I just saw that he was in front of my car and I focused on getting out of there.
The bad news is that I can’t describe him, I don’t know how tall he was, I don’t know what colour his hair was, I don’t know his race, he didn’t have an accent of any kind that I could hear- I honestly have zero details. He was in his early 30s maybe? in athletic clothes, all black with a hood.

I should have called 911.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda, right?
I could have gotten in my car and set off my car alarm to create attention and scare him off. I could have gotten in the drivers seat with my son on my lap and called the police. I could have gotten my phone out and documented him… the list goes on. But I didn’t do those things.
If this happens to you please call 911 right away. I wish I could go back in time and call as soon as it happened.
I called the nonemergency police line a bit later and they have made a file for the incident. They are going to do drive-bys of the area when they can which will hopefully deter anything else happening in the future.
My son and I are lucky that nothing worse happened, I just hope this doesn’t happen to anyone else. I grew up in South Surrey/ White Rock and I have never felt unsafe here but what happened tonight shook me to my core.
Please be careful out there, everyone.

Very excited about the new Mayor

How was everyone's wknd?

Last Night's Outdoor Movie down at East Beach kicked off White Rock Sea Festival
& Semiahmoo Days for the weekend.
Check out the Salmon BBQ and all the festivities.
Fireworks tonight at the Pier

Semiahmoo First Nation White Rock BIA White Rock Sea Festival

What a great start to the Farmer's Market Season.
Were you there?

420 in the Hood

Saw this today on the 'Rock'. I guess someone thinks they can save a parking spot on a public street.
Just a note people...this is NOT a thing! Save your chairs. Someone will steal them. 🙆

Good day in the hood today

What are your thoughts on these high rises on Martin with 2 more to soon join them?

It's a beautiful day on the Rock. Enjoy!