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PHOTOS: 16th Annual Readers Choice Awards

PHOTOS: 16th Annual Readers Choice Awards

Art athletes race to paint at Grand Prix marathon

With the blast of a horn, artists from across the Lower Mainland and beyond will run like Olympians, with easels and paint brush in hand, to a designated location in Steveston, and start to paint.

When the goose retires

We've all heard Aesop's fable of "The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs." The bottom line of the story was that the greedy owner could not wait for the next day that the goose laid another golden egg.

Asian market permanence seen in Richmond facility

Tolko Industries has opened the largest lumber reload centre in B.C., but the products being loaded into containers at the Richmond site are not bound for B.C.'s traditional markets in the U.S. - they are all going overseas to Asia.

Get job boards to work for you

Are you looking for work, but have run out of places to apply? A free seminar on Job Boards and How to Use Them will be offered on Sept. 20 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Learning Place at the Brighouse (Main) Branch, 7700 Minoru Gate.

Woman writes personal, practical guide to divorce

It's a common tale of strength and perseverance, further perpetuated by the movies and TV shows: A longstanding marriage ends after the man chooses to leave for one reason or another, leaving the woman alone.

City offers grant writing workshops

If your experience filling out grant applications is limited or your previous applications have been less successful than you'd like, this workshop will take you through the basics of articulating a compelling case for your projects, creating a reali

City centre cop shop opens doors with crime prevention series

Richmond's newest community police station has opened, right in the heart of the city centre.

Landlords and tenants unite

Richmond Rental Connect (RRC) will be holding a workshop for tenants and secondary suit landlords in an attempt to help them work together.

It's so easy to get words wrong

When I learned to speak English as a child, my main bugbear was pronunciation, not vocabulary. When I moved to Florence and learned Italian, my biggest problem was coming out with the right word at the right time.