It was lunch, with adventure on the side: sand piles, a giant pipe maze, huge tires, backhoes and bulldozers galore.
For a third straight year, more than 400 young Vancouver Public Schools pupils and their adult “buddy” mentors frolicked at the annual Dozer Day event, held in east Vancouver.
The Lunch Buddy pairs had run of the CEMEX-Fisher Quarry off Southeast 192nd Avenue the morning of Friday, May 14. That’s the day before gates opened to the general public, including thousands of young visitors and families all that weekend.
It’s become a year-end celebration for the school Lunch Buddy program, which matches adult volunteers with youngsters for one lunch period each week.
The Lunch Buddies’ own Dozer Day was sponsored by the Nutter Foundation, Vancouver Rotary Foundation and the Vancouver School District Foundation.
