Living

Hollyburn House residents get a visit Wednesday from Gerry O’Neil, owner of Stanley Park Horse-Drawn Tours, and Pepper the Percheron, part of O’Neil’s Gentle Giants Visitor Program that sees large draft horses visit seniors care and retirement homes.

Summerhill PARC residents Betty Griffin, Marlene McBain, Tina Jackson and Raye Lee participate in the retirement residence’s sixth annual cribbage tournament June 11.

Andy White and Leon Kozlov are presenting the fourth annual Prints Show, a gallery night in honour of White’s mother, Linda Rossetti, featuring the silent auction sale of photographs in support of InspireHealth Integrative Cancer Care.

Bridge Brewing’s Leigh Stratton and Forerunners’ Jerry Ziak get some training in prior to the second annual Bridge Brewing 10-kilometre Growler Run around the North Vancouver brewery community, Sunday, June 29 at 8:30 a.m.

Dr. Roshanak Rahmanian of Lonsdale Dental Centre conducts an oral cancer screening exam on a patient. The North Vancouver location was among the Willow Dental Care and 123Dentist.

Ask - and chances are you shall receive. Following up my recent column on shopping around, I encourage you to be assertively proactive when you run into problems. Along with thousands of other CIBC Visa cardholders, I've been sold to TD Bank.

Pedal Pushers

Notices Ewing it for Lee: Run or walk five-kilometres to help raise awareness of Ewing sarcoma and funds for the Ewings Cancer Foundation of Canada in honour of Lee Barbour, Sunday, June 22, 2 p.m. at Windsor sports field, 808 Lytton St.

Current Conversations: A lively gathering that will include movement, stimulating conversation, new ideas, laughter and an opportunity to reconnect with old friends or make new ones Fridays, 1:30-3 p.m.

Animal lovers are invited to start signing up and raising funds for the annual Scotiabank and BC SPCA Paws for a Cause walk, which takes place Sept. 7 in 34 communities across the province, including the Lower Mainland.