In the Community

We asked a collection of people in New Westminster, from politics to business, community groups to education, to share some of their favourite family recipes for the Christmas season.

Local man has helped find housing for more than 100 people in need in the city

If there's one constant in newsrooms everywhere, it's that reporters and editors are big fans of good food - especially during the holidays.

Fraser River Discovery Centre is offering a number of theme days to kick off 2013, following a series of successful kids' events in December. Upcoming sessions at the centre focus on certain themes: Jan. 5 (new year's resolutions), Jan.

New Westminster Firefighters' Charitable Society will host its annual tree-chipping fundraiser in January. Royal City residents who have live Christmas trees may want to jot Saturday, Jan. 5 and Sunday, Jan.

5(or more) Things to do this weekend

urnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian has been recognized by his peers in Ottawa. Julian was honoured to receive the runner-up award for the Most Knowledgeable MP as part of Maclean's magazine's sixth annual Parliamentarian of the Year Awards.

Stocking the shelves: Colleen McDonald adjusts one of the many items made by local artisans at the relaunched Queen's Park Healthcare Foundation's gift shop. The shop, located just inside the front door of the care centre at 315 McBride Blvd.

Medical staff at Royal Columbian Hospital got a special delivery of popcorn this week as part of the B.C. Transplant Societys annual Operation Popcorn campaign.

Through winter, flowers get battered down by winter storms and berries fall or are eaten by wildlife. But brightly coloured stems and contorted twigs resist anything nature hurls at them.