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IT'S Dad's big day this Sunday. If you find it hard to express how you feel about him, why not let someone else do it? These books about dads are just the thing for putting into words just how much your dad means to you.

Appeal highlights acrimony in workers' strike at railtour company

KALE (left) and Caden Westie-Hammond are ready for the upcoming St. Andrew's United Church annual Teddy Bear Picnic, on Saturday, June 16, 10: 30 a.m.2 p.m., at 1044 St. Georges Ave., North Vancouver.

More than a year after Angeline Pete vanished from her North Vancouver home, a Vancouver Island First Nation has put up a $5,000 reward for information leading to her return.

North Shore Green Market: A showcase of local Canadian made products, unique foods, art, jewelry and entertainment Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Maplewood Farm, 405 Seymour River Pl., North Vancouver. Info: www.canamade. com.

A West Vancouver stock promoter has been fined $15,000 and ordered by the B.C. Securities Commission to do some remedial reading after admitting that he filed documents on behalf of three companies that he knew were false or misleading.

Not all homeowners want to be included in heritage registry

OFFICERS from the West Vancouver Police Department will travel to Penticton to investigate a complaint from a man who says he was assaulted in RCMP custody there. The RCMP in the Okanagan city arrested the man in August 2011.

LIKE an anaconda coiling around its prey, Alexander Boldizar slides his forearm around the neck of his competitor, sinking in a winning submission.

Summer Reading Club registration is underway at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. This year's theme will be "strange but true." Info: 604-925-7408 or www.westvanlibrary.ca.