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Event at Memorial Park helps little boy's family

Event at Memorial Park helps little boy's family

Six-year-old has diffuse intrinsic potine giloma
Delta getting out of the wedding business

Delta getting out of the wedding business

No further receptions to be booked for Harris Barn
Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This time we go back to 1990.

Persistent hubby won't let wife throw in trowel

I'm giving it another go. The lettuce, the beans and the long English cukes. I really don't know why.
Two homes damaged by Ladner fire

Two homes damaged by Ladner fire

A fire significantly damaged two Ladner homes last Friday night. Delta Fire Department deputy Chief Robin Cullen said the fire spread from one house in the 4600-block of 54th Street to another.
Heat turned up on towers

Heat turned up on towers

Big crowd in Delta council chambers to hear update from MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay

Uncertainty for online and summer classes

School district sends out advisory as a lengthy teachers' strike will have impacts beyond end of month
Video game introduces kids to climate change

Video game introduces kids to climate change

Delta high school students provide input to designers
Politics in Delta mayor's blood

Politics in Delta mayor's blood

Lois Jackson says she didn't foresee 40-year career when she ran for the first time in 1972
Hams to show their stuff during annual Field Day in East Ladner

Hams to show their stuff during annual Field Day in East Ladner

Despite the Internet, cell phones, email and modern communications, every year whole regions are left in the dark. Tornadoes, fires, storms, ice and even the occasional cutting of fiber optic cables leave people without the means to communicate.