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If you're interested in learning about health or firefighting - or just want to have some fun or listen to some lovely music, there's something for you on this weekend's agenda.

The New Westminster school district is seeking feedback at a public meeting it's holding next week on how to deal with a hefty $2.8-million surprise deficit.

Seniors living in the uptown neighbourhood would welcome a place where they could let their dogs run free. Ken and Catherine McEwen recently wrote to city council asking that the city consider providing an off-leash area in Moody Park.

I don't know how important religion is to people in prison. I suspect it depends on a multitude of things. For some, religion might have been what held together a fragile home life.

This 150th anniversary year of the Royal Columbian Hospital has been interesting.

Certain brands of packaged salad and peanut butter are being recalled due to concern they may be contaminated with the salmonella bacteria. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency put out a warning to the public on Oct.

We are reminded of the lyrics, "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to" every time we hear another criticism of John Cummins' leadership.

A delegation of union members representing special education assistants turned up at a recent board of education meeting urging the school board to pay for an extra 45 minutes a week - not the proposed 30 minutes - which they say is necessary to meet

The quote in the signature line at the bottom of Laurie Kocher's emails is a brief but poignant insight into the passion this Douglas College instructor has for early childhood education. "Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot.