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After spending decades serving the North Shore, Nancy Taylor is now in need of help.

North Shore Rescue is looking for some new blood to join the team. The volunteer group is accepting applications for potential new members until Friday, Jan. 8.

With overnight temperatures dipping to -4 C this week, emergency weather spaces at the Lookout Emergency Aid Society’s North Shore shelter have been filled to near capacity.

It’s the mother of all fender benders. A District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services engine is off the road and facing up to $100,000 in repairs after it was struck by a transport truck.

It was tiny jolt as earthquakes go, but still the biggest one felt in the Lower Mainland in more than a decade. Just before 11:40 p.m.

North Shore residents can celebrate responsibly this New Year’s Eve, as transit will be free until 5 a.m. TransLink is offering free service starting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31 up until 5 a.m. Friday, Jan. 1.

ANSWERS: 1. A wheelbarrow and helicopter. 2. Lions Gate, Lynn Creek and Delbrook Community Centre. 3. Seeing eye dog. 4. The Lions Gate Bridge “bump” 5. An Abbotsford bottled water company. 6. Keith Plumbing and heating owner Paul Myers. 7.

Find a link to the answers at the bottom of the quiz. 1. All sorts of backcountry adventurers need a little help out of the North Shore mountains from time to time.

A North Vancouver family’s Lionsview home was saved from a Christmas Day fire thanks to a quick 9-1-1 call and response from District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.

A blast of fresh snow followed by clear blues skies has local skiers and boarders heading for the hills in record numbers.