Living

The big FOUR-OH – just because you’ve turned 40 doesn’t mean you can’t live a vibrant, energetic and full life.

Santa Claus (right) and Fiona the African pygmy hedgehog share a little holiday cheer. Fiona was found stray in Vancouver before being nursed to health by volunteers at the The Small Animal Rescue Society.

Constant trainer and sometime poet Joan Klucha offers her version of Clement Clarke Moore’s classic

MasterChef Canada contestant chef Travis Petersen and chef Derrick Peltz, MasterChef season 6 runner-up, plate a pair of kusshi oysters, the first of five courses of a meal service at Finch & Barley restaurant in Lower Lonsdale on Monday night.

Saks OFF 5TH will open an outlet store at Park Royal North next summer.

Two friends’ telecommunications and fashion backgrounds have merged to create a bracelet with brains and beauty. Lynn Valley resident Ken Miyanabe always has his eyes on the latest trends in technology, but not fashion.

Lauren Edgar holds her plush snowy owl aloft as the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre prepares for a program on owls at risk, including a screech owl monitoring program.

The Christmas Eve Tree by Delia Huddy, Illus. by Emily Sutton, Somerville, Mass., Candlewick Press, $23.

North Shore Celtic Ensemble musicians Maya Tomes, Jeremie LeClair, Laura Schatz, Nathalie Irvine, and Teagan Dawson and are set to provide the soundtrack for Pro Arte dancers Emily Bourgault Kennaley, Sophie Higgins and Kai Zanker at their upcoming C

Felicia Deo, Amy Wiggins, Matt Wentzell, Paul and Kristin Wiggins of Mountain Health and Performance are collecting warm, gently used coats for Spectrum Mothers Support Society and the Lookout Emergency Aid Society.