In the Community

So much creative energy will be flowing at Centennial secondary Saturday during Odyssey of the Mind provincials, you could light up a city.

It's the Tri-Cities' biggest high school, with a storied past and future in which the old building will be replace. And Centennial secondary is hosting an open house on Thursday, May 12 from 5 to 9 p.m.

If you have a child in school, he or she needs clothes. And the leadership students and staff at School District 43's GOAL (Goal-oriented Alternative Learning) program are presenting a clothing giveaway next week.

Share Family and Community Services' alcohol and drug program invites you to attend any or all of its free addiction education series, which runs weekly from April 20 through June 29.

Volunteer Week is April 10 to 16. It could have been a scene from a Disney movie but instead of a lonely orphan reconnecting with his long-lost family, the central character of this touching scene was a tiny Goldeneye.

If it could speak, the dusty accordion sitting in a storage archive at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum would tell a tale of hunger, deprivation and death.

READING TIME School kids from four Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam elementaries recently competed in the ninth annual Tri-Cities Reading Link Challenge.

Are today's youth becoming dumber? The Dumbest Generation author Mark Bauerlein, an American university professor, says yes and that technology is largely to blame.

Douglas College students Kate Hunt and Jessica Hewitt would like you to know three things: No one chooses to become an addict. Addiction can happen to anyone. And people dealing with addiction deserve dignity and respect.

You can join the frog chorus by spending an evening strolling the marsh, learning about frogs and other amphibians at Minnekhada Regional Park in Coquitlam. You can join a park interpreter this Friday, April 15 from 7 to 9 p.m.