Thank You to our 2025 Spring Fair Sponsors

The Hastings Spring Fair is made possible by the generosity of our community sponsors!

The Spring Fair is the PACs biggest Fundraiser and Community event of the year. All proceeds, after expenses, go to important initiatives that support the kids of Hastings Elementary school with classroom supplies, technology, art projects, field trips and more.

Join us Friday, May 9th from 3-5.30pm, rain or shine, for the Hastings Community Elementary School Spring Fair. This is a community event and everyone is welcome. This event wouldn’t be possible without the support of local businesses, community sponsors, toy donations and many many volunteers. Thank you to everyone who supports the Spring Fair!

Our 2025 Sponsors so far are….

PLATINUM
Caliper Print & Signage Solutions Inc.
Hill and Harbour Real Estate Group
Shirley Manfron, Notary Public
Karin Davidson
East Village Insurance Agency

GOLD
Mindful Brains Learning Support
Grow Speech and Language Therapy
Atrium Inn Vancouver
Figaro’s Garden
Tot 2 Teen Dental
Roe Enviornmental Engineering

Swank Hair & Esthetics
Studio Roslyn
Pho Don


SILVER
Sunrise Health Massage Therapy & Acupuncture
Save-On-Foods
Taste Vancouver Food Tours

rhum
Selene
Aegean Bistro

Makehaus Fabrications

BRONZE
High Point Beer Wine Spirits
Big Fun Run Series Use code 10HASTINGS for 10% off registration!
Recycling Alternative
Nail Palette Beauty Bar
Soulfish Wellness
East Van Jam
McGill Grocery

COMMUNITY WHO CARES

Atrium Inn Vancouver
Big Fun Run Series
Caliper Print & Signage Solutions Inc.
Figaro’s Garden
High Point Beer Wine Spirits
Makehaus Fabrications
Grow Speech and Language Therapy
Mindful Brains Learning Support
Save on Foods (2880 Bentall St, Vancouver)
Tall Shadow Bakery
Shirley Manfron Notary Public
Hill and Harbour Real Estate Group
Recycling Alternative
Taste Vancouver Food Tours
Platform 7 Coffee
Stong’s, North Vancouver
Soulfish Wellness
East Van Jam
Sunrise Health Massage Therapy & Acupuncture
ROE Environmental
Karin Davidson Personal Real Estate Corporation
Pacific National Exhibition (Playland)
McGill Grocery
Studio Roslyn
Tot 2 Teen Dental
Columbus Meat Market
Swank Hair & Esthetics
Rhum HR
Nail Palette
Selene Aegean Bistro
Pho Don
East Village Insurance

The Spring Fair Returns Friday May 9!

Join us at Hastings Elementary on Friday, May 9 from 3:00–5:30 PM for an afternoon packed with fun, food, and community spirit!

Get ready for:

🏰 Bouncy Castles
🃏 Carnival Games
🍕 Pizza, Hot Dogs & Treats
🎵 Music & Vibes
🏐 Sports Demos
🏆 Prizes Galore
🧩 Family-Friendly Fun

The Spring Fair is Hastings PAC’s biggest fundraiser and community event of the year—and we’d love your support!

Where do the funds go? Straight into our school—supporting classroom supplies, art, tech, field trips and more.

Ways to get involved:

🙋‍♀️ Volunteer – We need 40–60 amazing helpers to keep things running smoothly. SIGN UP HERE to grab a shift. There are lots of opportunities to help out throughout the day!

🎁 Make a Jolly Jar – Fan fave alert! Fill a jar with goodies or join a lunchtime jar-making session at school (TBA) with Jolly Jar Queen Meg Roe.

🎪 Sponsor a Game or Activation – Are you a local biz owner? Support your community AND get visibility with local families! Email Jenn: jenn@wintcommunications.com for tiered sponsorship options.

🎟 Donate Tickets – Buy a pack of 10 or 20 and gift them to another family. Spread the joy!

🧸 Toys Needed! – Spring clean + support the fair = win-win. Donate gently used toys, puzzles, or games (no books, please). Drop-off box by the office.

We can’t wait to see you there! It’s going to be a blast! 🌸

Calling all Green Thumbs!

The Hastings PAC Garden Club wants you! (and your weeding tools, your brooms, your shovels, your secateurs.. you get the idea) We are getting ready to get growing in the school garden, which makes this the perfect time of year to do a little clean up in our green space.

Please join us Thurs Feb 27 from 3-5 pm at the undercover area so that we can pull out weeds, dig up plants that didn’t make it through the winter, and generally spruce things up. It’s the first thing we need to take care of, with sessions planned for later this year to improve the quality of our dirt, and then get planting!

Work gloves are also highly recommended. Children are welcome to join if they can follow strict safety rules, and are under the direct supervision of their parent(s).

See you there!

Family Movie Night is Back – Weds Dec 18

Hastings PAC Presents Holiday Movie Night: doors at 5, 1st movie at 5:30. Admission by donation.

Hastings PAC is inviting you to say Hello to the Holidays! Please join us at the school gym on Weds Dec 18 between 5-8 for a double blast of Grinch goodness! We’ll screen the original 1966 animated short with Boris Karloff as the iconic voice of the green guy starting at 5:30 pm, and then segue into the full length CGI-animated feature from 2018, with Benedict Cumberbatch taking his Grinchy turn.

Doors open at 5 pm with admission by suggested donation of $5/person, capped at $20 for families of more than 4. Bring whatever suits your movie-watching style best when it comes to seating, whether that’s a bean bag, a sleeping bag or blanket, or a camp chair. Did we mention it’s a pretend-over? Wear your jammies and bring a stuffy if you like!

We also have all of your dinner and snack needs sorted!

We’ll have pizza, popcorn, treats, and beverages, and for the first time in Hastings’ history — the ‘Not a PBJ’ Bannock Bar. Take your pick from a non-nut based butter (eg WOW butter, sunflower seed butter, pumpkin seed butter) and a dozen sweet spreads, and build yourself a fab sandwich out of the fluffiest, most delicious bannock you’ve ever had. Or, go deluxe with a marshmallow and chocolate syrup version — it’s the holidays, after all. If you don’t have a sweet tooth and prefer the savoury, we’ll have you covered there too, with grilled cheese bannock, or vegetarian chili and bannock.

Please rsvp to info@hastingspac.ca in advance to give us a general sense of numbers. We are still looking for volunteers to help make the night go smoothly; please email us there as well if you’re available.

We’ll have an awesome holiday-themed draw for attendees, and we’ll share participation details for that through the PAC newsletter. Please sign up for that — you guessed it — by emailing us at info@hastingspac.ca.

See you in the gym!

Upcoming PAC general meetings

We want to provide lots of opportunities to hear from you — so we’ve gone ahead and set the PAC general meetings for the rest of this school year! Please mark your calendars now for these dates:

Weds Apr 30

Tues May 27

Weds Jun 18

We’ve alternated between Tuesdays and Wednesdays to try and make the dates as accessible as possible (we know extracurricular schedules get locked down pretty early.)

For now, we are testing out holding meetings at 630 pm in the library and will advise if that changes. Please make sure to subscribe to the newsletter through info@hastingspac.ca to make sure you’re always into the loop!