Living

January on the West Coast may not be the easiest month to work in the garden but there's plenty to do if you know what to do.

Consider the following tips for travel and in the home

Book Buddies A oneon-one 30-minute reading program for ages six to 11 Wednesdays, Jan. 22-March 12, 3:45-6:30 p.m. at Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Registration required. 604-984-0286 x8141 nvdpl.

One of the signals that a company or organization offers great service is return business.

Make 2014 a year of fewer reminders from devices

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (Delacorte) $21 Steelheart is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic Chicago now known as Newcago. The world has completely changed in the 10 years since a burst in the sky gave some people extraordinary powers.

To me a poached egg on toast is a quick and easy breakfast. Some people seem to think that poaching eggs is difficult, but it's actually quite simple once you know a few tricks of the trade.

Winter watershed snowshoe tours A moderately strenuous snowshoe tour around First Lake on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver Thursday, Jan. 23, 6-9 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 26, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

The Dine Out Vancouver Festival, Tourism Vancouver’s annual, city-wide promotion designed to keep the local restaurant scene thriving during a conventionally quiet time of year, is back for its 12th installment.

Andrew Fentiman, working with Quincy, a seven-year-old standard poodle, demonstrates animal healing at the Holistic Health Clinic of the Self Realization Meditation Healing Centre. The clinic, located at 202-106 W. First St.