Living

Community members were invited to a Chili Cook-Off at Fresh St. Market on Saturday, March 29. Free chili samples were part of the event, which featured teams that included chefs and cooks from across the Lower Mainland.

You vegetarians out there will be very familiar with the meaty characteristics of portobello mushrooms.

I feel that conversation is a dying art. Far too often . . . wait. Sorry, I just need to quickly fire off this text. Where’s that funny little emoticon with the tongue sticking out? Got it.

Minister of State for Seniors Alice Wong announces the awarding of a $24,758 grant to Parkgate Community Services Society through the federal government’s New Horizons for Seniors Program at the North Vancouver centre March 19.

Pat Bronson leads a recent session of Capilano University’s ElderU held at the Summerhill Retirement Residence focused on visualizing one’s ideal day. ElderU offers a variety of programs for those 55+ throughout the year.

Representatives of North Vancouver’s Summerhill Retirement Residence hosted Stay Strong, a health seminar, March 6.

Senator Yonah Martin was one of the guest speakers at an International Women’s Day panel presented by the Canadian Iranian Foundation Youth Group March 8 at West Vancouver Community Centre.

Program co-ordinator Jennifer Folkersen and Vancouver Coastal Health dietitian Sharron O’Brien invite fitness newbies to register for the next session of Move More on the Shore, a West Vancouver Community Centre program, running April 2 to June 25.

Leap! Therapy for Kids physiotherapist Heather Laine and the participants of her yoga class invite families to the upcoming Leap! Family Open House, Saturday, April 5 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

West Vancouver resident Natacha Warwick and her dog Tuxedo Seville put on a multi-faceted show for families at the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre last week.