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Eco Fashion Week wraps up today, Oct. 19, with events at Robson Square. Speaker seminars, industry panels and runway shows celebrate sustainable fashion. Visit ecofashion-week.com for a full schedule of events.

GALLERIES Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon5 p.m. Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca. Artists for Kids Gallery: 810 West 21st St., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

THE District of North Vancouver agreed Monday to send a large development at Seylynn Village to a public hearing. Council is weighing a proposal calling for five buildings on the 5.

THERE were several opportunities for North Vancouver's Michael Hartley to quit his attempt to paddle 5,200 kilometres across Canada's six largest provinces this summer.

PARENTS need to get savvy about what's happening online and teens need to band together to stand up to bullies, Argyle secondary students told a bullying forum on Thursday.

- Trailerama, by Phil Noyes, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 192 pages, $34.00. IT'S a form of travel that is almost as old as the wheel, but the horse drawn covered wagon was a far cry from the comfort of the modern trailer.

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Anna Karina: "And Coco Chanel said, 'Who are you?' and I said, 'I'm just me. I'm Anne Karine... And she said, 'You're gonna call yourself Anna Karina.

FAR from being an unusual event, the ongoing train wreck that has engulfed the B.C. Conservative Party and its leader John Cummins is actually pretty standard fare in B.C. politics.