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North Vancouver resident Angela Santoro and Squamish resident Kay Protheroe are organizing the second annual Healthy Family Expo, which takes place Sunday, March 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Vancouver Convention Centre East.

Spring has arrived and what better way to welcome the season than to display some beautiful flowers inside the home. I love finding new containers and ways to display flowers so when Michaels introduced miniature glass milk bottles, I was inspired.

Anvi Jhanji, 7, Queen Mary elementary Art teacher: Tom Harrington Favourite art: painting Favourite artist: Todd Clark Her teacher writes: Anvi puts much care and attention into making objects with her hands.

Great Houses of England & Wales , by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and Christopher Simon Sykes, Laurence King Publishers, 424 pages, $78.

Vital pursuit more than just a trend

More than 40 countries have prohibited physical punishment of children. That means that their children cannot be hit, swatted, smacked, belted, strapped, whopped or spanked by anyone. Canada is not one of those countries.

When I was a young boy in the earliest years of elementary school, my mother and I were effectively adopted by a kindly Italian grandmother who lived across the street from us.

If there’s one vegetable that absolutely screams “Spring’s here!” it’s fresh asparagus. Even though it’s available more or less year-round, asparagus, like any other fruit or vegetable, tastes best in its natural growing season.

Horticultural therapist Janelle Goddard plants pansies in raised indoor beds with West Vancouver’s Westerleigh PARC retirement residence garden club participant Janis Bea.

This week’s column was supposed to be all about bargain wines. But that will have to wait. As of April 1, the term “bargain wine” will take on a whole new meaning, as B.C.