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OUR little ones are heading back to school. It's time to start thinking about back-toschool clothes, packing lunches and school supplies.

- Robot Zombie Frankenstein by Annette Simon (Somerville, Mass., Candlewick Press) $19 TWO very competitive robots try their hand at one-upmanship in this hilarious romp of a picture book.

THE goat cheese I'm referring to is chèvre; there are many other goat's milk cheeses (feta being the best known), but chèvre is what we here in Canada usually think of as goat cheese.

"If your child has any other healthcare issue you 'pay' for it with your Care Card. If your child has autism, you write a cheque - assuming you can. This is the discrimination faced by B.C. families who receive that diagnosis.

Old course has been renewed

- It's Lonely in the Modern World, by Molly Jane Quinn, Chronicle Books, 175 pages, $22.95 EMBRACING the modernist approach means clearing away the debris of accumulated purchases that have crept into the home.

TWO North Vancouver companies struck silver at the Vancouver Regional Construction Association's Awards of Excellence last month.

EVEN with the kids going back to school, summer is not over yet; and so don't give up on the garden, especially when it comes to watering.

IT'S fair to say that I'm closer to the end of my career than the beginning. Over the years I've met a lot of people in the workplace who didn't know when it was time to leave. Thankfully I'm not one of them.