In the Community

Cheyenne Crant won't be requesting treats when she goes door-to-door next Monday evening for Halloween. The 12-year-old would rather receive non-perishable food items.

Canadian Diabetes Association offers the following tips for turning trick-or-treating into healthy eating this Halloween: Sort through the stash: After trick-or-treating, have children go through their bounty and pick out their favourite sweets.

Today's students are an alien species connected by invisible tentacles but a former educator and blogger says teachers should harness this hyper-connectedness, not discourage it.

More than a thousand people hit the Hoy Creek Hatchery last Sunday to celebrate the annual return of the salmon. "This has been easily the most well attended Salmon Come Home event," said Rodney Lee, president of the Hoy/Scott Watershed society.

You can help yourself while continuing to help someone else with the help of Tri-Cities Caregivers Connections. The local group is hosting a program for caregivers who provide unpaid care and support to a person 50 or older.

The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of BC will present Medication Awareness for Seniors on Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to noon at Dogwood Pavilion.

It's not bowling for dollars but boo'ling for food. The Zone Bowling Centre in Coquitlam is hosting Cosmic Boo'ling and food drive tomorrow (Saturday) to benefit Share Family Services.

Julie Gogal spent much of the summer taking photos of the garbage people leave in plastic bags on Cedar Drive and the bears that rip them apart on their way to the blueberry farms. But on Oct.

The recent spate of cold weather in the region is sending bears out of town for the winter but that doesn't mean people should start getting complacent about their garbage, officials say.

Bears are still around and it's important to lock up garbage - even through the coming winter. Bear attractants are not to be left out and garbage carts and cans can only be set out between 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. on collection day.