In the Community

It's the weekend of Festival du Bois, which in past years has translated to a mixed bag of liquid sunshine and cloudy skies. Let's hope we get a few rays for the annual fête in Maillardville on Saturday and Sunday.

Lego is not just for toddlers anymore. The colorful building blocks have been used to create towns, villages, even entire cities and a group of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Burnaby students are winning awards with a robot they made of Lego.

FOR/FROM THE HEART Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation members last month gave $32,000 to the Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation to complete the $154,000 needed to add a second cardiac-echo ultrasound to the cardiac diagnostic services.

For this year's Festival du Bois, the weekend-long Coquitlam party that celebrates all things French-Canadian will kick off in a city not known for its francophone heritage.

Feb. 27 is Stop Bullying Day in Port Coquitlam and the city is hosting a day of action to help young people deal with and stand against bullying behaviour. "Bullying knows no boundaries. It doesn't care about gender, race, age or geography.

Artistic young people in Port Coquitlam will have a bit more time to submit their entries for the city's 100th anniversary t-shirt design contest.

Like many new mothers, Dora Vanourek was looking for a way to lose some of the baby weight after the birth of her daughter two years ago.

Clean out your closets, basements and garages of skis, skates and sticks to support a great cause.

A UBC professor specializing in human development, learning and culture will be the keynote speaker at a parent presentation, sponsored by the Southside Family of Schools. Dr.

The funding has been sorted out, a suitable design to fit the steep slope has been finalized, water hook-up and other issues have been resolved. Now, the hard work for the $33-million middle school in Anmore begins: coming up with a name.