In the Community

Spring is almost in the air and St. Patrick's Day is this weekend. We're continuing with our popular feature - our staff's Top 5 (Or More) Things To Do This Weekend. We have some great offerings for the March 16 to 18 weekend in New Westminster.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then The Record's online photo galleries are a repository of millions of words of every kind, colour and shape.

On days when grey skies and pouring rain dampen spirits and everything else, there's happiness and hope to be found at ground level among the spring flowers. Snowdrop blooms last for weeks in these temperatures.

The City of New Westminster is aiming to be the first city in the region to provide food scrap collection to all residences. Council has approved a staff recommendation to mandate a citywide multi-family food scraps recycling program starting July 1.

The 2012 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction went to Charlotte Gill for her book Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe.

Pizza boxes, paper plates OK - but keep out oils, fats and butter

Tillicum Toastmasters are inviting residents to attend their international speech contest. The contest is taking place on Monday, March 19 at the Unity in Action Hall at 1630 Edinburgh St.

David Francoeur earns recognition from the city for his help saving a neighbour from a February house fire

You Wear it Well - Just for Grads is hard at work preparing for grad 2012.