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On days when grey skies and pouring rain dampen spirits and everything else, there's happiness and hope to be found at ground level among the spring flowers. Snowdrop blooms last for weeks in these temperatures.

Jennifer Gilchrist started out as a high school athlete in Burnaby, she says. Today, she uses her sports skills to help seniors stay fit and healthy, Gilchrist, owner of Lifetime Leisure, adds.

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A group of youth in a leadership program at the South Burnaby Neighbourhood House is organizing a fundraiser to help sexually exploited trafficking victims.

It's the nightly battle for many parents: cook a meal that the kids will eat, that doesn't cost too much and that's healthy for the whole family.

Burlesque meets the Beatles when a Burnaby-born guitarist brings his new show to the stage. Blue Morris is presenting Beatles Burlesque at New Westminster's old Columbia Theatre on March 24.

The South Burnaby Neighbourhood House is looking for adults who need help reading and writing to take part in a new literacy program.

Heart health program at B.C. Women's open to residents around the region

Lovers of choral music, mark Saturday, March 17 on your calendars. Burnaby's own Phoenix Chamber Choir is presenting its spring concert, Visionaries, at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver.