Living

We are at the height of dahlia season right now, but the great thing about dahlias is the season goes on and on and on! The season starts in early July and finishes with either frost, or the cold rains. I have picked dahlias on Remembrance Day.

Green life has sprouted from the metal ashes of Lower Lonsdale’s bygone shipbuilding era. A neighbourhood once consumed by heavy industry is now starting to flourish with local shopkeepers cultivating fruits and vegetables destined for the food bank.

Anyone hoping to ensure abused and neglected dogs can find a warm spot to flop is welcome to an Aug. 25 fundraiser at Highlands Animal Hospital in Edgemont Village.

My love for sushi is inversely proportional to my disdain for writing about it. What is there left to say? I don’t know how many sushi reviews I have done and I certainly have no clue how many sushi meals I have eaten, here and abroad.

It’s one month until the kids go back to school and there’s one thing you can be doing now to help them prepare for their return. Teach them how to get there. How to get from their front door to the door of their new classroom.

Styling a relaxed summer table is easy if you take a little time to prepare. Channel a relaxed, beach vibe with one of the table setting ideas below. Each one is sure to inspire even the most skeptical guest.

Charlie is a year and a half old German Shorthaired Pointer. Charlie is full of energy, gregarious and adorable.

When North Vancouver resident Kolton Babych was a boy, he would spend summers visiting his mother’s side of the family in Connecticut. There, while he and his family relaxed poolside, Babych would watch his aunt making beaded jewelry.

Susan Simmons left swimming at the age of 15, tired of female competitive sports, and never thought she’d enter a pool again.

A love of art and of books and language has accompanied Inge Glaser Bachrich all her life, which began in Germany 90 years ago. “I started drawing when I was small, I suppose partly because I was often alone, not in a bad way, just circumstances.