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Humans' names: Robert Schwager and Worapoj Ukaew Pets: one-year-old ferrets Puck (as in A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Snowy (as in Tintin). Favourite treat: Even though they are carnivorous, these two love an occasional cranberry or sweet fruit.

THE Globe and Mail ran an article last spring listing runners' pet peeves when they return to the trails after a long, cold winter.

North van company aims to offer clean water anywhere in the world

WITH interest rates so low and uncertainty in the stock market (and the investment world in general) so high, you might be tempted to put your money into something exotic like wine or jewelry.

Bingo: Every Monday at 6: 15 p.m., North Vancouver Legion, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. For more information call 604-988-3712.

EXACTLY one year after the Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver, another North Vancouver man has been charged in connection with the melee.

AS pipeline politics heat up in this province, a looming environmental disaster in neighbouring Alberta may play a big role in shaping public opinion towards two proposed oil pipelines in this province.

A brush fire that broke out on Eagleridge Bluffs on the weekend underscores the importance of campfire bans, according to the firefighters tasked with putting it out.

A Crown prosecutor is asking a judge for a psychiatric assessment to help determine if a man who has pled guilty to sexual assaults in Squamish and Ladysmith and a robbery in North Vancouver should be considered a long-term or dangerous offender.

DEAR MATTIE: What style of dress is in fashion this summer? Keen for Summer in Canyon Heights DEAR CANYON HEIGHTS: Dresses are very much in fashion this season. They are relaxed and easy to wear.