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A GOOD READ: Reading Challenge books great reading for kids

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.

SENIORS: Recreation and support for seniors in Tri-Cities

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: Book clubs for kids, plus a documentary and a special Xmas celebration

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.

MINTER: Have you heard of the 12 plants of Christmas?

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.

YOUR HISTORY: No last-minute shopping for Coquitlam pioneers

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.

A GOOD READ: Cake mix, quinoa and slow cooking are covered in cookbooks

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: Support groups will help you get well, whatever form that takes

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

MINTER: Christmas Rose needs some protection

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.

GOLDS: Enjoy the birds of winter in the Tri-Cities

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.

YOUR HISTORY: Sisterhood of the river in Port Coquitlam

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." These words sum up the lives of Eve Forrest Gulliford and Nel Coyle Forrest, two remarkable and durable women who met and became friends, then family, during some often difficult times.