Living

CEO and co-founder of British Columbia Guide Dog Services Bill Thornton (left) accepts a $1,000 contribution from the Rotary Club of Tsawwassen. The presentation was recently made by Rotary director Marlene Findley and president Wayne Connorton.

Delta Museum’s Mary Elizabeth Harrison plants a clue for the Mystery in the Museum kids drop-in program. The fall program runs Tuesday to Friday; 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. and costs $5 per mystery solving kit.

I am up early, but the sun is already warm. I walk the seemingly endless silky white sand beach, past palms swaying in the morning breeze. The clear turquoise waters curl gently on the shore.

Local artists Rod Winning and Dennis Walsh (SNL 149) have a showing at the Tsawwassen Arts Centre and instead of a reception they will be having a Variety Music show tomorrow (Oct. 2) from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

The historic farmhouse in Boundary Bay Regional Park celebrated a century Sunday.

Public school students headed back to class this week after an extended summer holiday. B.C.

Ladner Legion first vice-president Trevor Castle recently touched up all the names of the fallen soldiers on the cenotaph in Memorial Park.

Optimist photographer Gord Goble was at one of Tunnel Town Curling Club’s Learn to Curl sessions at the South Delta Recreation Centre recently. The club offered a series of free Learn to Curl sessions this month.

This week I answer questions from readers: Q: I have several boxwood that I hope one day will grow together and make a small hedge. Most of them have some part of the bush now turning orange in colour. It started last year and is getting worse.