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Riley Park. Where exactly is that? Many readers are probably familiar with the park itself, which takes up more than two hectares of green space along Ontario Street at East 30th Avenue.

A decade isn't a very long time in geological time, but an artificial boulder in Riley Park located in a playground near the corner of Ontario Street and 33rd Avenue has nonetheless made a name for itself since its construction in 2002.

Riley Park. Where exactly is that? Many readers are probably familiar with the park itself, which takes up more than two hectares of green space along Ontario Street at East 30th Avenue.

As part of the Courier's Vancouver Special neighbourhood series on Riley Park, we visited the Regional Assembly of Text to talk paper, fonts, buttons and the lost art of letter writing. Vancouver Special: Riley Park [email protected] twitter.

RILEY PARK June 16 is Car Free Day Vancouver at several locations across the city - see the Courier's page one story - with dozens of events taking place, including Blim Market on Main Street. The new outdoor Blim Market will run from noon to 6 p.m.

Before he became a famous disc jockey and hung out with Elvis Presley, Red Robinson was just another East Side kid growing up in the Riley Park neighbourhood.

Green peas, red cabbage and sunshine-coloured flowers burst from community garden plots that flank the parking lot at the Cityview Baptist Church.

Main Street institution now has third owner in 65-year history