In the Community

Baby, what a year. Baby's First Year, a program at Place Maillardville community centre in Coquitlam, is for expectant parents as well as parents, grandparents and/or guardians and their babies from newborns to 12 months.

Port Coquitlam Heritage and Cultural Society has two events scheduled for next week - and both involve food. PoCo Heritage's monthly meeting is set for 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20 at the Gathering Place in Leigh Square.

Are you a newcomer to Canada? Are you interested in connecting your skills to the Canadian workplace? Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSBC) and Port Coquitlam's Terry Fox Library are hosting a session next Tuesday on Skills Connect for Immigrants.

Have a cup cake, shop and support Share Family and Community Services. This Sunday, Sept. 16 from noon to 4 p.m., customers are invited to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Share'd Treasures Thrift Store at 2402 St. Johns Street, Port Moody.

Do the complexities of work and life feel overwhelming at times? Are expectations high at work and at home for keeping up with technology, filling out forms, working and speaking in groups and other tasks? If so, you are not alone.

A lot has changed at Riverview Hospital since the first Treefest celebration in 1994: Patient numbers have dwindled and the hospital has been shuttered while the grand collection of trees has reached higher and the invasive plants spread wider.

You can protect your privacy and help a local non-profit group this weekend. Vancity's Tri-City Branches, Urban Impact Recycling and the Tri-City Transitions Society are partnering in a fundraiser to promote privacy and identity theft avoidance.

You can celebrate the early days of Maillardville next weekend during the 103rd anniversary celebration at Heritage Square in Coquitlam.

Parents new to the Parent Advisory Council concept for their local school can get hands on tips and information at an upcoming meeting. The District Parent Advisory Council is holding a PAC orientation night Thursday, Sept. 20 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Summer holidays may be a thing of the past, but that just means there are more family fun events on deck for the weekend. Keep the kids busy enough and they'll forget all about the lazy hazy days gone by. FRIDAY, SEPT.