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You may have already discovered this reality: When it comes to gardening gifts, passionate gardeners are very particular, so here are some suggestions that you might find helpful. There are so many great gardening books available today.

For the ninth year, Fraser Valley Regional Library and Coquitlam Public Library are presenting the Reading Link Challenge to Grade 4 and 5 students. The teams are chosen and the reading has begun.

Below are listings for seniors' community and support groups in the Tri-Cities: Seniors meet every Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m., to do fun group activities including physical fitness exercises, games, storytelling, local tours and recipe sharing.

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.

Hardy winter colour is a garden 'must have' and the new hardy, early blooming varieties of Christmas Rose (Helleborus niger) 'Jacob" and 'Josef Lemper' top the list.

Today, a trip to the mall can net you all sorts of Christmas gift possibilities. But gift giving for Coquitlam's pioneers took planning. Most gifts would be handmade and took considerable time to create.

I love to eat but I don't love to cook. And I know I'm not alone because there are many books to help those that are culinarily-challenged.

Wellness is a many faceted thing and the following groups (whose listings are from The Tri-City News' Community Calendar) offer support for people to achieve physical, mental and emotional wellness: Port Moody Alanon Family Group open meeting, Wednes

In old-fashioned gardens, Helleborus niger, or the 'Christmas Rose', was certainly one of the best known winter flowers. And for 2005, the whole helleborus family was chosen as the Perennial Plant of the Year. The earliest to flower, H.

With temperatures dipping low at night and the frosty weather upon us, it's time to put up bird feeders in areas where the bears are no longer roaming.