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WEDNESDAY The Ambleside Orchestra rehearses Wednesdays, 3: 305: 30 p.m. at Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver under the direction of Nicolas Krusek. There are opportunities for string players.

A tourist fell approximately 30 metres off the Binkert Trail near Lions Bay Sunday afternoon and was subsequently airlifted with a helicopter long-line by North Shore Rescue.

POLICE say thieves targeted the mailboxes of several West Vancouver buildings over the Easter long weekend. Mail was stolen from an apartment building on Saturday, April 7, according to the West Vancouver Police Department.

THE chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation says his band is adamantly opposed to Kinder Morgans plan to dramatically increase the volume of oil being shipped by tanker through Burrard Inlet.

Proceeds help fund WV youth programs

A group of Lower Mainland mothers who created Mom Inc. Movement, a job search, business sale and business search website for mothers, recently relaunched their website. Mom Inc.

- Labracadabra by Jessie Nelson and Karen Leigh Hopkins (Viking, 36 pages) $18.50. IN this charming and funny early chapter book, Zach finally is given something he has wanted badly for a very long time. For his entire life, in fact.