Living

A warm, comforting bowl of oatmeal laced with brown sugar and cream is a lovely way to start a winter day. Oatmeal is a versatile ingredient to use in baked goods lending a chewy, nutty element to the finished product.

Over a cup of delicate and grassy Nepalese Jun Chiyabari tea, Kanak Tanna speaks to me of her childhood on a tea plantation in Uganda. “We used to run through the fields plucking the tea leaves,” recounts Kanak. “We’d eat them there, just like that.

Hiking through the forest, listening to birds chirping overhead, smelling moss-covered trees and feeling the crunch of leaves underfoot: It’s the kind of stuff camp was made for.

Skating and shooting are two skills every hockey player should have. But in a fast and strategic game like ice hockey, it’s not an easy process to learn and synthesize the mechanics of those skills.

A new program offered by the West Vancouver school district aims to help get students on the “fast” track. The First Aid Swim Training, or FAST, program gives high school students the skills and training to become lifeguards.

Dan and Phyllis McNeil whip up a few pancakes. North Vancouver’s St. Andrew’s United Church is hosting a Shrove Tuesday Community Pancake Supper Tuesday, March 4 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. By donation. st-andrews-united.ca PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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North Shore Dragon Busters members Marie Hess, Penny O’Rourke and Sara Jane Roxburgh Walker participate in some dry land training at Genesis Athletic Club.

North Shore Rescue team members Connie deBoer and Jay Piggot along with event organizers Sara Manlove and Katelynn Potter invite community members to a fundraising evening for the Tim Jones Legacy Fund, Saturday, March 8 at 6 p.m. at Seymour’s Pub.

Recipients of the seventh annual North Shore Health Care Awards for Outstanding Achievement, sponsored by Lions Gate Hospital Foundation — joined by MC Dr. Allan Burgmann (centre) — accept their awards at a ceremony at the hospital earlier this year.