In the Community

Fifty-one mothers, including Patricia Shapiro, Jaclynn Grad, Sylvia Bosa, Annika Teffler and Karina Strachan from the North Shore, slept outside May 4 in solidarity with the hundreds of young people who call Vancouver's streets home.

Anita Tetreault Callahan sent in these two photos she took on Friday afternoon of a family of geese taking a stroll along the west side of Simons at Park Royal South around 12:50 p.m. The feathered family recieved a special escort from Cst.

An anonymous artist, who we’ll call Barksy, has been leaving portraits of canines painted on stones at Inter-River Park, a popular dog-walking spot, for humans and their furry companions to find.

Students at Caulfeild Elementary recently toured their neighbourhood, picking up litter along the way. They then dumped the assorted trash on the school’s gym floor. Don’t worry, they had permission from the teachers.

Picture Vancouver. Not as a map or an aerial photograph but as a panoramic self-portrait composed of the squiggles, stories, brushstrokes and strokes of luck that brought so many folks to the city.

Whatever you do, don’t tell mom you’re tired. Khayanga Wasike learned that lesson as a child living in a hut that bent and broke whenever heavy rain fell or high winds swept across the western reaches of Kenya.

Students from Irwin Park Elementary’s choir perform during West Vancouver’s annual Lighthouse Festival. Following performances and installations at Gleneagles and West Vancouver community centres, the celebration of school youth art concludes Friday.