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The weather normally gets chilly at this time of year, but a local firefighter will be heating up the month of October in the 2012 Greater Vancouver Hall of Flame Calendar.

NORTH Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite says she has gained new respect for firefighters after spending a day in their boots at this year's Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention in Vancouver.

THE grass is greener on the other side of a rebuild at the Shell gas station in Ambleside. Shell wants to create a new gas station and convenience store with a green roof at 13th Street and Marine Drive in West Vancouver.

CONCRETE EXAMPLES Two North Vancouver construction projects were honoured at the second annual Commercial Building Awards, hosted by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, Sept. 29.

West Vancouver all-candidates meeting begins local election races

Pumpkin Fest: An old fashioned community harvest festival will take place Sunday, Oct. 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the West Vancouver Community Centre Plaza, 2121 Marine Dr. There will be a variety of activities and workshops.

A Crown prosecutor is asking a B.C. Supreme Court justice to send a man caught by the North Vancouver RCMP with more than $165,000 in counterfeit money and $50,000-worth of marijuana to jail for five years for his crimes.

THE terrible thing about networking is that it works so well. It's the people who constantly make connections who thrive in the business world. They like to be seen as movers and shakers, and by moving around and shaking hands, they are.

"He played Russian roulette with the disease . . . and the lives of other people.