In the Community

Watch out Chicken Legs, there’s a new player in town. A new character joined young Royal City residents on the pitch at Queen’s Park this week for the New Westminster Police Department summer soccer school.

Thursday, July 24 PAWS for Independence annual pub night, 5 to 7:30 p.m., Paddlewheeler Pub, 810 Quayside Dr. Tickets are $20 per person and includes a choice of hamburger, chicken or veggie burger and a beer, wine or highball.

The strains of anything from Mary Had a Little Lamb to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata could be drifting across New Westminster’s waterfront this summer thanks to a street-piano project launched this month.

The strains of Mary Had a Little Lamb or Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata could be drifting across New Westminster’s waterfront this summer thanks to a street-piano project launched this month.

I’m writing this in my hotel room in the old town of Prague. In this ancient city of a hundred spires I’m surrounded by wonder and beauty, but in a place so different from home, I’m reminded that I’m a traveller in a land that is strange to me.

In August flower gardeners reap rewards from the hard work they did in spring and can relax knowing that most of the ornamental garden work can be left until weather cools in September. Even dead-heading flowers is an option.

One of the favourite foods to help combat the heat of the summer sun is chilled slices of melon.

Question: Can the avocado seed be planted to grow a plant? Daryl Shim, Burnaby Answer: Yes, it can. The avocado shoot emerges from the smaller end of the pit, the roots from the fatter end.