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And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

Baby bats are mastering their echolocation skills in mid-summer

Last week, I got the news that a cousin of mine passed away at the much-too-young-age of 65. He was a bright, funny, warm man, with a wonderful wife and two loving daughters. He was also a proud grandfather.

Richmondites can help “make miracles happen” by participating in Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day. On Thursday, Aug.

Cecily Ross’ The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie is a fictional and very readable account of the life of Susanna Moodie, a Canadian pioneer and one of Canada’s earliest writers. Lost Diaries begins during Susanna’s youth in 1815 England.

Intensifiers (adverbs or adverbial phrases that do nothing except emphasize) are off the menu for wordsmiths like me, but I’m binging now – because I’m extremely relieved that a negative trend is reversing.

Following the New York Times’ article labelling Richmond as a “one-stop paradise for lovers of Asian food” in June, another food blogger is bringing attention to the city’s culinary offerings.

Here are three refreshing wines to enjoy over the B.C. Day long weekend: A dry Spanish sherry, a B.C. white from the Okanagan, and a tasty red from South Australia. All are available here in Richmond. Real sherry comes from the town of Jerez, Spain.

Wooden Boat Rendevous Aug. 4 & 5: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site is hosting the Ex – Forest Service Vessel Squadron Rendezvous on August 4th and 5th (Saturday and Sunday) from 12:00- 4:00pm.

I gotta say, I love it when I discover something I like and find out there’s a crazy story behind it. Case in point: Longwood’s Quinceotica.