In the Community

Do you have the next Alexandre Burrows or Ryan Kesler toddling around your house? You can find out at Coquitlam's Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex.

A group of Irvine elementary school students has made the school a little safer with a kind word, a dose of common sense and the occasional bag of ice. They are Kid Advisors and the primary students look up to them like the big kids they are.

PROFIT POWER Port Coquitlam's Canadian Access and Door Systems Inc., parent company to the Garage Door Depot, is among Canada's top 200 fastest-growing companies, according to Profit Magazine.

The Family Resource Centre, in co-operation with School District 43, is taking registrations for multi-sensory literacy tutoring camps. Two three-week literacy tutoring camps begin July 4 and run through Aug. 10.

Tomorrow (Saturday), to celebrate Environment Week, the Burke Mountain Naturalists will lead a public hike on the Woodland Walk Trail in Pinecone Burke Provincial Park.

Books Plus runs in The Tri-City News each Friday to highlight programs and happenings in the Tri-Cities' three libraries: Coquitlam Public Library, Port Moody Public Library and Terry Fox Library in Port Coquitlam.

Coquitlam's Pinetree community centre will host assorted drop-in programs this summer, including: Badminton: Bring your family and friends down to play badminton on Sundays.

From pre-schoolers to adults, Fraser Valley Regional Library (FVRL) has a reading club for everyone. All of the clubs at branches such as Terry Fox Library in Port Coquitlam are free to join and participants can even win prizes.

They suffered writer's block, stressed over deadlines and agonized over plot and character. Now, after months of hard work, the Grade 6 and 7 students in Cheryl Angst's Language Arts class are published authors with books in their hands.

Children who sign up for the summer reading club at Port Moody Public Library will join more than 90,000 kids across B.C. this year.