Holiday Guide Archive

As Christmas inches closer, it’s likely you may be less inclined to take on the task of homemade decorations. “At the beginning of the season they’re (customers) very happy to make their own.

Daria Tamari, 8, and her brother Arel, 6, watch the candles of a Menorah with Rabbi Shmuel Birnham at Har El Synagogue in West Vancouver.

Sugar cookies are a popular treat at this time of year, and they are fun to decorate (recipe from Heather Smythe).

Strolling through rows of fragrant Christmas trees looking for the perfect one to take home is a popular holiday tradition for both adults and kids.

Coat Drive Mountain Health and Performance will be collecting new and gently used winter jackets to be donated to the Lookout Emergency Aid Society and the Spectrum Mother Support Society until Dec. 22.

The year was 1982. Saturday morning cartoons ran for six hours back then, beginning at the crack of dawn with a marathon of Loonie Toons classics and reaching an apex around 10 a.m.

James Wilson remembers the first bike he ever got. “My first two-wheeler was such a piece of junk,” he says with a laugh, noting he could ride it fine in a straight line, “but trying to turn the thing around at the end of the street, that was epic.

Chocolate Covered Almonds ½ cup almonds, roasted 2 ounces dark chocolate, bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate, chopped Place a metal bowl of chocolate on top of one inch of water in a small saucepan.