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After months of construction and restricted access, the $20-million project to widen the sidewalks and install suicide prevention fences on the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing is finally done.

Galleries ARTEMIS GALLERY 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 778-233-9805 artemisgallery.ca The New Nostalgia: Zak Sarwari will show his unique and colourful works in progress of local scenes until Sept.

Somebody saw something. Somebody said something. Then the RCMP showed up. Police pulled over a TransLink bus on Third Street at St. Patricks Avenue Tuesday evening after a passenger was overheard muttering about explosives.

South Coast residents will get a chance to roast marshmallows and hotdogs in the great outdoors before summer vacation comes to a close, as the campfire ban was lifted last week.

Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall, Alfred Knopf Publisher, 337 pages, $32. In our current pop culture the term hero will conjure up images of costumed figures with superhuman powers but heroic efforts are not fictional.

When her father was arrested, Tanya Olivares’s world “kind of crashed down” on her and her sister, the beginning of an ordeal that played out for them for nearly three decades.

You might want to go check on your bicycle. North Vancouver RCMP say they’re disappearing in record numbers.

Though there’s nothing that can be done about its steep slope, cycling up the Chesterfield Avenue hill should be getting a bit easier as the province has kicked in almost $300,000 for bike lane improvements.

Sprinkling ban remains in place amid predictions of a dry autumn