Living

M arch kicks off a series of nature walks at Coquitlam's Colony Farm Regional Park with a focus on its birdlife. This park attracts an impressive diversity of birds, including a number that are rarely found in the Lower Mainland.

Gluten-free products have become popular and if you haven't noticed, just take a stroll down your supermarket aisle and the "gluten-free" label will pop up somewhere.

It's hard to imagine a June garden without the mouth-watering flavour of strawberries. The good news is, planted now, both the 'everbearing' and 'day neutral' varieties will produce fruit this year.

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.

Dietitians of Canada is asking Canadians to put their "Best Food Forward" and "Plan Shop Cook Enjoy!" in celebration of Nutrition Month 2013.

Coquitlam is offering a variety of sports drop-ins for all ages this winter. All of the programs listed take place at Centennial Activity Centre, 570 Poirier St.

March is national colon cancer awareness month. Colorectal cancer ranks as the third most common cancer in North America and the third leading cause of cancer death.

W inter, with its cold temperatures and short days, is the perfect time to settle in with a good book and for me, that book is usually a fantasy novel. It was a fantasy novel that finally got me interested in reading as a kid.

Tax season is beginning and that means British Columbians are trying to make sense of tax changes and how to handle their RRSPs. To help, the Chartered Accountants of BC have put together a list of handy RRSP and tax tips.

One in five Canadi-ans now manages their investments the same way they make common lifestyle purchases: they go online.