In the Community

A lawn bowling tournament held as a tribute to Eva Markvoort raised $60,000 for Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

You can still read your way to win. The New Westminster Public Library's summer reading program for adults, A Taste of Reading, has been extended until Aug. 31. The program has been running since July 2.

In 1872, New Westminster was struggling to recover from both the loss of the capital status to Victoria in 1868 and, like many other communities, the decline in the economic benefits of the Fraser River gold rush.

It's easy to convince yourself that obesity doesn't affect you. To joke that few extra pounds is just "extra padding.

Tim Armstrong happy to lead the way at city's fire department

Local woman looks back on a unique trip from the 1940s in her new book

Question: There are these climbing plants with white trumpet flowers mopping the ground and crawling up trees. I've tried digging and find networks of fat roots. It has been a lot of hard work.

Beautiful sunny weather greeted a huge crowd of gearheads and car aficionados at the Starlight Casino on Sunday, Aug. 7.

The Power of Pink: Nirmal Rattan, left, talks to team member Amber Lowes and tour manager Colleen Nicholson outside New Westminster City Hall during a visit from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Pink Tour.

Maps, guide books and more at local library