In the Community

The 28th annual Caribbean Days Festival took place this weekend (July 25-26) at Waterfront Park in North Vancouver. The festival featured live music, entertainment, food, a kids zone, a beer garden, and more.

For years it stood, its columns forming a familiar four-sided tribute to the Greek goddess Athena.

Estelle Lienbenberg’s clay compositions and Christine Cowan’s landscape paintings are on display until Sept. 6 at Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre as part of the exhibit Near and Far – Inspiration From Home and Away.

Will Shortz shows passion for interest other than words

When Christine Elsey was a kid growing up on Riverside Drive in the Seymour area, she remembers the “greasers” coming from Vancouver to the canyon at the top of the road. They wore ducktail hairdos and drove hot rods with their engines showing.

Marissa Pascuzzi and Raianna Tydeman play in the surf at Ambleside Beach. Weekend temperatures are expected to rise to 28 C.