Living

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.

I love the idea of continuing colour into the winter months using outside porch pots.

The year that is drawing to a close has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Soils.

A screening of the documentary This Changes Everything is being hosted by the Tri-Cities Leadnow Team

In honour of all those aspiring authors scribbling away on their NaNoWriMo — that’s National Novel Writing Month — novels this month, I’d like to salute some of 2015’s debut authors and their fantastic first works.

Shortbread, haggis and Scotch were on the menu at last Friday’s A Class Act, an annual benefit by the Douglas College Foundation and sponsored in part by The Tri-City News.

Have you ever wondered why your Christmas cactus always blooms too early or too late for the Christmas season?

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.

Have you ever wondered how you can heal yourself and others by working with energy?

For the past two decades, representatives from countries around the world have been meeting annually to attempt to address the challenges the world faces in dealing with climate change.