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Jean Ireland, Suzanne Spohn, Pat Lefroy, Elaine Hickin and club founder Gillian Panton were a few of the guests gathered recently at Park and Tilford Gardens to mark the Capilano Garden Club’s 25th anniversary.

The hot and dry summer we have been experiencing this year has been wonderful for lavender in the garden. I love the versatility of this plant and how you can dry it for use in so many home decor ideas.

It might seem a bit premature to speak of fall given the very warm weather we've been having. We divide the year into four seasons with official start dates, but in reality, one season blends into the other.

Your Water Footprint, by Stephen Leahy, Firefly Books, 144 pages, $20. Living in Vancouver, it is easy to become very casual about our water consumption.

Mychael Winkler-Hart, 8, St.

It was mid-June and an anxious mom was talking to the elementary school principal. Her son was in Grade 1 and his reading skills were not up to speed. She was looking to the principal to advise her about the best summer school program for her child.

Deep Cove is such an active community.

Students from Holy Trinity school help spell out the word FAST during a visit to Victoria earlier this year to help the Heart and Stroke Foundation launch a new provincewide awareness campaign intended to help people learn the signs of stroke and act

Throughout the short history of the physical fitness industry as we know it, which, in fairness, only really took off for the average citizen during the late-20th century, there has been an ongoing debate over the relative merits of exercising alone

Qigong and tai chi practitioner offers array of local classes