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Dear Mattie: How can I keep warm and be fashionable this season? — Chilly in Cypress Dear Chilly: This season, it is very easy to keep warm and be fashionable. Many different styles of outerwear are about making personal statements and staying cosy.

Audiences are invited to step back in time this weekend at a unique mixed presentation of period fashion and classical music. Lions Gate Sinfonia presents Music and Fashion: Signs of the Times on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 3 p.m.

Jinah Kim, 16, Sutherland secondary Art teacher: Dorothy Foster Favourite art: drawing and illustration Favourite artist: Vincent Van Gogh Her teacher writes: Jinah is a talented art student and shows her creativity through her artwork.

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.