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Happy Halloween! Ladner and Tsawwassen are gearing up for Halloween in the usual manner. Spreading fake spider webs, digging grave plots in front yards, carving elaborate shapes into pumpkins -- Halloween season is here.

Fourteen DNCBers enjoyed a beautiful sunny and clear Tuesday visiting several parks on Whidbey Island in Washington State, plus a magnificent ferry ride. There are already some spectacular shots on our Flickr site .

Ladner Baptist Church hosted its annual Harvestfest Carnival on Tuesday (Oct. 29), and Optimist photographer Jim Kinnear stopped by to capture some of the moments.

Costumed kids and their families haunted the Ladner Community Centre yesterday to get an early jump on Halloween, and Optimist photographer Jim Kinnear was there to catch some photos of the event.

Rats and mice are far from being harmless creatures as they can cause infectious diseases & serious health complications. Rodent borne diseases include bacteria-based illnesses such as salmonella to viruses such as hantavirus.

Twenty-one DNCBers finally enjoyed a sunny day in Delta and had a very productive outing, first to the Tsawwassen Ferry terminal, then our “Mecca” Reifel Bird Sanctuary.

Antlion or the doodlebug are named for the rapacious ways of the larva, which trap small insects in a pit that it has dug into the ground.

Gusts of up to 90 km/h caused a number of BC Ferries to cancel the scheduled routes from the Tsawwassen terminal today (Oct. 25), but the winds attracted a number of kiteboarders to the causeway to take advantage of ideal conditions.

Trans Mountain sent an email entitled “Burnaby construction updates” to subscribers on Wednesday that included an item about the tunnel that is supposed to go through Burnaby Mountain. “Crews will be boring the 2.