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GALLERIES Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5 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 Vancouvers move to compile a heritage registry turned into a contentious debate about privacy and civil liberties at a council workshop last week. Currently, the district lists 144 homes on its heritage registry.

A North Vancouver couple who got into an acrimonious legal fight with their neighbour over tree-cutting, then a fight with their lawyer over his bill, have been told most of the $169,000 legal tab they were handed is a fair and reasonable fee.

A citizens' group is challenging the City of North Vancouver council to put the brakes on large-scale growth and residential densification within the city. North Van City Voices made its first official appearance at council May 28.

HUNDREDS of passengers bound for Horseshoe Bay were evacuated from a ferry in Nanaimo on the weekend after an anonymous caller claimed there was a bomb on board. The unidentified culprit phoned B.C. Ferries just after 3 p.m.

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

Mayor Michael Smith promises council review of 'tax multiple'

"I have been shot at, seen a young girl die in my arms, have assisted in a birth and floated in a boat over the remains of 229 people at the Swiss Air disaster.

FAMILIES will now have easy access to information about child care or early childhood development programs in their neighbourhoods thanks to the launch of two online maps.

NORTH Vancouver RCMP officers have dismantled a grow-op with 300 plants that was housed in the garage of a quiet suburban neighbourhood. Police were called out to a domestic dispute at a home in the 600-block of East 21st Street around 2 a.m.