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Rino Cioffi is known as the unofficial mayor of Hastings Street, having run his popular meat and Italian food store there for several generations.

We're continuing with our popular feature - our staff's Top 5 (Or More) Things To Do This Weekend. This week, we have some great options for Easter weekend in the city. Here's our Top 5 for this weekend.

Two of the city's shopping centres will be hosting Easter-themed events this weekend. At Brentwood Town Centre, Good Friday will feature Story Time, including a special guest reader, from Coles Books who will read an Easter tale at 1 p.m.

Burnaby's 2011 Citizen of the Year, Kehar Singh Aujla, is a very busy man. Aujla, who emigrated from India with his wife in 1996, began volunteering in Burnaby a decade later.

The Burnaby Artists Guild is celebrating the season with its Spring Extravaganza. The original art exhibition and sale is set for April 13 to 15 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave.

A man convicted of assaulting a bus driver in Burnaby last year has been handed an 18-month conditional sentence, plus two years probation.

How much will the federal government's omnibus crime bill cost B.C.? That's the billion dollar question one local politician is asking, and blank documents released through freedom of information requests aren't helping solve the mystery.

Canadian Blood Services is looking for local donors this Easter long weekend. The national non-profit group has set a target of 94 donors for a Burnaby clinic on Sunday, April 8, to meet hospital demand. They need 40 more donors to reach that target.

The public hearings have yet to start, but opposition to Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion is moving ahead.

Art is in bloom this spring at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre. The centre is presenting its fourth annual BLOOM: Asian Canadian Artist Showcase from April 10 to 28.