South Surrey \u2018Solstice Stroll\u2019 set for June 27<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 pm Friday, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n
An evening that is all about love, remembrance and the beginning of summer returns to a quiet South Surrey garden next weekend.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s 2026 Spirit Garden Candlelight Solstice Stroll \u2013 the 17th reprise of the event \u2013 is set for Saturday, June 27.<\/p>\n
The garden, located at 2860 140 St., is an oasis of peace and beauty that has bloomed under the continued care of Joan and Jon Mara, who spearheaded the project in an effort to bring a plain, overgrown plot of city land back to life.<\/p>\n
Over the years, it has become more than a simple garden, blossoming into a space where individuals who want to honour loved ones can add some greenery or colour of their own, and perhaps in doing so, find a place of healing, reflection and harmony.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always wanted this garden to just be this friendly, inviting place,\u201d Joan Mara said earlier this month, estimating \u201cwell over\u201d 100 of its plants are tributes to lost souls.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s really what the solstice evening is about,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The event \u2013 starting from 8 p.m. \u2013 is open to anyone who\u2019d like to experience the garden in the warm glow of candles that will mark each of the plants that have been added as tributes.<\/p>\n
She encourages those who do come out \u2013 whether on June 27 or any other day \u2013 to do two laps of the garden, one in each direction, so as to \u201cfully take it in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The best viewing during the solstice evening is from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., Mara adds in a post to the White Rock\/South Surrey Community Group Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Surrey \u2018Solstice Stroll\u2019 set for June 27 Published 6:00 pm Friday, June 19, 2026 An evening that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-752120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}