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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.

Notices Soul Power Group Learn to self-heal and heal others through simple but powerful techniques Jan. 22 and 29, 7 p.m. at the Silk Purse, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Heal the soul first, and the mind and body will follow.

Nomination sought Do you know a local business or citizen you would like to see celebrated? Nominations are still being accepted for the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 2014 Excellence Awards. The nomination period closes Friday, Jan. 24 at 5 p.m.

A North Shore-based organization is reaching out to friends and family members of people recently diagnosed with a serious mental illness to help them move forward and lead healthy lives, armed with new knowledge and understanding about how to help t

NV Variety kid makes gains thanks to funding support

Red Carpet Walk: Connect with your Feminine Power and Confident Self, Friday, Jan. 24, 7-9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre. Tickets: $45/one or $75/two (15 per cent discount offered if purchased by Monday, Jan. 20). Registration required.

The concept of canine hierarchy, or the lack thereof, is once again the topic of many dog training social media pages these days.