Living

Her business was growing bigger and bigger, but behind the veneer she was feeling smaller and smaller.

It’s been a busy school year but you’ve got your home and family organized, right? When 14-year-old Kendra has band practice and 12-year-old Cody has a swimming lesson on the same night and at the same time, you are calm and collected.

It starts with a meal and ends with an education. The sweet smell of orange blossom fills Honada Alparawi’s kitchen last Friday, as she prepares a traditional rice dessert.

“Believe it or not, the story starts in 1944,” says Mike Jarvis, while telling a story about friendship and shared history. Go back 75 years to a seaside town in the south of England.

Green Leaf Brewing celebrates its fifth anniversary this week. I recall first learning of the brewery’s opening and wondering, at the time, if the North Shore would be able to support the rapid growth trend of craft breweries that was materializing.

Richmond’s non-profit animal hospital is going to be the first in Canada to offer hyperbaric oxygen treatment for people’s pets.

Transportation on the North Shore seems like a highly controversial issue, with many residents, including politicians, holding a number of positions.

When most people hear the word “socialization” they immediately think it means having their dogs play and hang around with other dogs.

Love, Z by Jessie Sima, NY, Simon & Schuster, $23.99 By now readers may have gathered that I am very fond of robot stories. In the picture book Love, Z a young robot looking for adventure finds treasure in the form of a bottle containing a message.

Shiqi Xu thought she misheard that she had won $100,000 – rightly so. “Even when I shared the news with my family, it didn’t seem real,” Xu told the North Shore News Monday.