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The Bitmakaly Women's Association wants to help women adapt to Canadian Society by spreading some Christmas cheer. On Dec.

Tony Antonias, local arts promoter, offers up a recipe from his native Australia. His sister, who still lives Down Under, provided him with this "absolutely beautiful" recipe for fruitcake.

Ask the various business communities in New Westminster how this year's Christmas retail season has been and they'll mostly tell you that things are getting better, if only a little bit.

School support workers settle for no wage increases

CREAM CAKE Archie and Dale Miller of A Sense of History Research Services contributed a recipe for cream cake that Archie found while doing research 35 to 40 years ago in the 1872 New Westminster paper, The Mainland Guardian.

MaryAnn Mortensen earned the final spot in November's school trustee election and will be serving her first term. The Royal City resident and former district parents' advisory council chair also chose ginger snaps as her recipe for The Record.

The Vancouver Police Department has recommended 52 criminal charges against 20 suspected rioters from the June 15 Stanley Cup riot.

Grade 5 students at Herbert Spencer Elementary are doing their bit to give back to the community. On Dec.

New Westminster firefighters battled a house fire in the West End Friday morning. "It's a fairly involved," New Westminster fire inspector Charles Calogiros told The Record Friday morning. "It's a single-family dwelling.

Students at Richard McBride Elementary donated $597 to Honour House as part of their annual penny drive fundraising campaign. The donation represents some of the money raised at the school from September 2010 to May 2011.