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Members of the Shao Lin Hung Gar Lion Dance Team perform at Park Royal South Saturday as the start of the Year of the Snake was celebrated with a number of presentations showcasing Chinese, Korean, and Filipino dance, music and cuisine.

GALLERIES Bellevue Gallery: 2475 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5: 30 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and outside gallery hours by appointment. Info: bellevuegallery.ca.

DESPITE closing its doors two years ago, the assessed value of Plymouth elementary has increased by $1.18 million since 2011. The increase, which has pushed the value of the school to $9.

Custom fitted suit event: Enjoy a complimentary breakfast or lunch while being custom fitted for a suit on Friday, March 8, 7 p.m. at the Shangri-La Hotel in Vancouver. At 5 p.m.

Non-district homes must negotiate new deal with Metro and district

Variance refused; council requests fast-tracking of housing bulk amendments

A Vancouver man who was arrested driving away from a British Properties home where police seized more than 600 marijuana plants in 2010 has been given a one-year conditional sentence, to be served at home.

- Trucking in British Columbia, by Daniel Francis, Harbour Publishing, 208 pages, $49.95. THE first motorized delivery van rolled down the streets of Vancouver in 1907.

IT'S fashionable these days for folks to be opposed to all kinds of things, from pipelines to coal exports to extracting natural gas.

THE District of West Vancouver pays too much money to TransLink and Metro Vancouver for too little service, according to Mayor Michael Smith. Its TransLink. Its a completely dysfunctional organization, he said. They have a board of directors.