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With Halloween right around the corner, police are reminding cherry bombers and Roman candle holders that all firecrackers are banned in the City and District of North Vancouver.

North Vancouver Community Band meets Thursdays, 7:30-9:15 p.m. at Carson Graham secondary, 2145 Jones Ave., North Vancouver. All musicians are welcome to join this group which performs about 10 concerts a year. saxalamode@msn.

Teachers in North and West Vancouver schools are hoping to fuel up their classroom projects with a new source of funding next month.

Three people were rushed to Lions Gate Hospital Saturday night when they went into medical distress after taking the illegal party drug GHB before heading out to a North Vancouver bar. Emergency help was called around 11 p.m.

Transit, density, amalgamation all part of three-way contest

With two wheels and one leg, amputee trains toward dream of desert motorcycle race

He got Marilyn Monroe for $5. It was 1983 and North Vancouver's Presentation House Gallery was making a transition from an amateur studio to a professional gallery with a focus on photography.

Lions Gate Gogos meets at 10 a.m. on the third Monday of each month at St. Clement's Anglican Church, 3400 Institute Rd., North Vancouver.

Transit, density, amalgamation all part of three-way contest

One North Vancouver teen travelled to a small town in Madagascar this past summer thanks to an abroad program with Scouts Canada.