In the Community

Nearly 500 British Columbians are waiting for life saving organ transplants, but only 19 per cent of B.C. residents are registered organ donors. That’s something organizers of the fourth annual Transplant Trot are working to change.

Question : My daughter is getting married in the beginning of July, and we would like as many fresh flowers as possible.

“Woman’s heart” has been the subject of poetic musings from time immemorial, but the real thing has only recently started getting the scientific attention it deserves, according to organizers of a Burnaby symposium on Women’s Heart Health this week.

It's time to get the city's eco-sculptures in shape for the coming season. Every year, the city calls on volunteers to help cover the dirt-filled metal frames with plant plugs that bloom and give shape to gigantic botanical figures.

Whenever seven-year-old Taylen Ritchie visits the Burnaby Village Museum, he runs off to find a volunteer and proudly announces his family's connection to a central home onsite.

If you could go back in time what would you change? When I was discharged from the Air Force I would've gone to the University of Toronto, which was 500 miles south of Timmons, instead of taking the payout.

Learn how to help local mason bees at this City of Burnaby workshop on Sunday, March 15 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. There will be information on mason bees and how you can help maintain the city's bee "condos.

Diamond Ball, debt doc, and Italian diaspora

Chopped Canada will feature food columnist on March 28