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A cupcake craze has blossomed in the past decade. Cupcakes are now subbing in for wedding cakes and specialty cupcake bakeries are springing up everywhere.

The Meatery, the small, 14-seat sandwich and soup shop attached to Windsor Meat Co. in Edgemont Village, draws on a deep understanding of how to prepare meats in order to offer what are arguably some of the North Shore’s best sandwiches.

Conductor and vocal coach Geordie Roberts works with the Silver Harbour Choir on “Take Time,” a song he composed, at a recent rehearsal. The choir will be performing at Silver Harbour Sunday, May 18 from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

West Van Florist’s Nancy Ashton leads a garden seminar at West Vancouver’s Revera — Hollyburn House last month. The session was focused on container gardening.

Dal Richards, shown here at a previous year’s Harmony Arts Festival, will take the Centennial Theatre stage with his 10-piece orchestra Saturday, May 17 at 2 p.m., a benefit for the Paul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation.

Capilano University accounting student Sogol Khadivi is the recipient of a $4,000 student grant from the Neekoo Philanthropic Society, which was established by a group of local Iranian professionals and raises funds to give back to the community, mai

West Vancouver Track & Field Club members Martin Dommann, Simon Mattern, Felix Tremblay, Misko Svancara, Nargiz Piriyeva and Ellie Piriyeva invite community members to sign up for the club’s upcoming Spring Sprint Community Track Meet, Thursday, May

Len Corben, journalist and author of PLAY IT AGAIN! A Century PLUS of North Shore Sports Stories, will give a free talk entitled One for the Book — Uncovering Unusual Tales of Trophies, Champions and Unknown Characters, at Lynn Valley Library, Wednes

Community members are invited to the annual general meeting of the North Shore Meals on Wheels Society, being held Thursday, May 15. The event will get underway at 9:30 a.m. with coffee, followed by the meeting at 10 a.m.

Trio to bike, swim and run 55 km in support of their peers in Africa