In the Community

Free Little Library comes to Burnaby neighbourhood

Shop local this Christmas season, starting with the Heights Merchants Association’s Light Up the Heights holiday kick-off. On Saturday, Dec. 3 from noon to 5 p.m. drop by the Heights for a festive sidewalk sale.

Two local retirement residences are sponsoring seniors this Christmas through the Burnaby Christmas Bureau

Metropolis at Metrotown hopes to raise $55,000 for the Burnaby Christmas Bureau this year through its photos with Santa program. There’s a minimum $2 donation for a picture with Saint Nick, who flew in from the North Pole on Nov.

The skies are darker, the air is colder, and there’s no denying it: Christmas is getting closer. If you’re looking for ways to fill the fall days with your small humans, or a few festive ideas for the pre-holiday season, we’ve got some help for you.

Sachi Komura Rummel was only eight years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945.

The Burnaby Village Museum kicks off Heritage Christmas this Saturday. There will be entertainment, including theatre performances, community choirs and musicians.

An Alpha Secondary student is planning a candlelight vigil to protest the proposed Trans Mountain pipline expansion.

Breweries took centre stage this weekend at the Burnaby Beer Festival and it was all for a good cause. About 240 beer connoisseurs turned up for the second annual festival, held on Saturday at Spacekraft in Metrotown.