In the Community

SPOTLIGHT ON: Family drop-ins WHAT’S UP: Parents with young children can enjoy free drop-ins for fun and support at the Brentwood Community Resource Centre.

A local man who uses music to build bridges across cultures is being featured in a new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Winnipeg-based museum is featuring the video stories of seven Canadians in Our Canada, My Story.

Rise and shine early on April 1 and head to Burnaby Lake Regional Park for Birding by Ear. A park interpreter will be on hand to offer tips to identify the bird behind the song. This is a presentation by Metro Vancouver. It’s on from 8 to 10 a.m.

Town hall organizers want to reach students unfamiliar with Kinder Morgan pipeline

It’s that time of year again when volunteer streamkeepers call on Burnaby residents to help them release thousands of salmon into local creeks.

Purple basketball nets are popping up across the city. It’s part of the Purple Net Project, an initiative by Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver that aims to show the need for volunteers.

Burnaby is the symbol of global environmental issues and economic degrowth in David Lavallée’s upcoming documentary To the Ends of the Earth . The film will screen on Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at Slovenian Hall, 5762 Sprott St., Burnaby.

Head to Deer Lake Gallery for Luminescence II, an exhibition of two- and three-dimensional artworks celebrating light, held to mark the spring equinox.

Burnaby seniors inspired by Pirate House, a local family’s project to help a children’s centre in Uganda

People who hunt ghosts, search for Big Foot and attend UFO conferences are not geeky nerds sitting in their parent’s basement wearing a tin foil hat – they’re everyday people.