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Queensborough and Sapperton set to host council meetings in coming weeks

New format could lead to more debate at evening meetings

While thousands of people will feast at food trucks in the Royal City on the weekend, a lone food truck is currently allowed in New Westminster.

Classical music for all The Langendorf Mandolin Orchestra will be in town on Sunday, Aug. 23 as part of their first Canadian tour. The German group uses the mandolin, a descendant of the lute family.

River Market to work on other initiatives with RCFM

Official band endorsed by Aykroyd and Belushi to perform at Anvil Centre in October

Local reporter-turned-author releases third novel in series about the larger-than-life crime reporter

The owner of Music Box – a private music school at the Quay – has opened a second location on Carnarvon Street. Vashti Fairbairn started her business in 2013 in a 570-sq.-ft. studio in the River Market.

Susan Tamkin took up painting five years ago at the age of 60. She had just retired from a long career in the federal government; she had raised two boys, and she wanted to do more with her “doodling.

Today marks the end of the city’s Saving Our Stones project, a month-long community initiative that asked volunteers to clean gravestones at the Fraser View Cemetery.