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MONDAY

Fun in the Sun: Celebrate summer with 2 fun look at rainbows, sunbeams and shadows. Monday, July 22, 10:30-11:30 am. or 1:30- 2:30 p.m., at Lynn Canyon Ecology Cen $5 /child. Pre-register: 981-3103.

WEDNESBAYS

Drop-in Summer Storytime: A half hour of stories, songs, fingerplays and puppets for the whole family. Wednesdzys and Fridays to Sept. 3, at 10:30 a.m., W.V. Memoria! Library. For more information call 925-7408.

Marsh Mellow: Bring your boots and take a stroll around Maplewood Marsh. Wednesday, July 14, 10:30 a.m.-noon or 1:30-3 p.m., at Lynn, Canyon Ecology Centre. $6/child. Pre-regis- ter: $81-3103.

The Amazon Rainforest...presented by the Vancouver Aquarium:

For ages six and up. Travel down the Amazon River into the heart of the rainforest to discover its secrets. Wednesday, July 14, trom 2-3 p-m. Register ar the West Vancouver Memorial Library youth services information desk or call 9. 08.

Grand Tour: For ages six and up. Discover the fun of water hopscotch, running through and bridge marbles as you take a tour of some of the games played in Europe. Wednesday, July 21, 28, from 2-3 p.m., West Vancouv Memorial Library. Registration begins Monda July 12 ar the youth servi information desk. or call 92 7408.

Exo-Expiorers Program: Five- and six-year-olds explore the outdoors every Wednesday throughout the summer at the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre. To regist call 981-3103.

FRIDAY

Beach Bonanza: Build toys to use at the beach. Art in the Park craft workshops each Friday this summer. For ages 5-8 from 10:30 a.m.-noon, at the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre. $6 per session. To pre-regiscer phone 981-3103.

Komputer Kidz Cyber Camps: For 8-12 years. Weekly computer camps at Seycove Community Centre. Full-day camps 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Half-day camps 9 am. to

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EVERY row and then something really special happens to me.

Something so magical that it is as if I've been sprinkled

No smokes

MARYSE Reichgeld recently presented Kelly Willett, the manager of the Blueridge Bar and Grill at Ice Sports North Shore, with a clean air award. The Grade 1 class of Sherwood Park school met Willett to applaud his move to provide a smoke-free restaurant. The restaurant didn't nave to be smoke free until the year 2000.

Granny’s hands working

with angel dust and reminded how lucky I am. Well, ?'m dusting off the sparkles from just such a something, and here’s the story.

On the day I was born my Granny turned 54 years old.

From that point on we always shared our birthdays together, but we shared a whole fot more too.

She was no Greta Garbo my Granny. She was what you

would call a sturdy woman, with slightly crooked teeth and unusually large hands and feet. But I thought she was beauti- ful, and I loved to watch her big, strong hands as she did what she called her handiwork. constantly doing something with her hands. She claimed it was a carry over from the war effort in which she participated wholeheartedly. She abv:

Please attend our

OPEN Housel

this Saturday, July 10%, 11 am - 2 pm, at North Stor and Saturday, August 21", 11 am - 2 pm, at North Star

“Our aim is not merely to make children understand, and still less to force them to memorize, but so to touch their imaginations as to enthuse them to their innermost core." - Or. Maria Montessori

Come and see what a Montessori education can do for your child!

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NEWS phote Terry Peters.

carried her old knitting basket around with her just in case she had a moment or two free.

* She kept all her important

stuff in ic — knitting acedles, thimbles, threads, her reading glasses — and I learned that if T reached into the inside side pocket, I would always find a toffee candy or two. I swear she knit socks for every man she ever met, made thousands of squares to sew together to make quilts, and gave terrific back tickles to little girls who sat on her lap.

And she loved to wear jew- elry, rings especially. She had a wonderful collection of rings, big Alaska diamonds, round, satiny pearls, and one particu- larly beautiful amethyst. The amethyst ring mesmerized me, probably because purple was and still is my favourite colour.

It was my Granny’s favourite colour too, so she told me. When she went to the hairdresser every week to have her hair washed and curled, she always had a purple rinse put in it.

My Granny was a deeply religious woman. She talked about the Lord constantly, and sang his glorious praises in the Lutheran Church choir every Sunday for 65 years.

Whenever there was 4 funeral or wedding, my Granny would be asked to sing a solo. They tell me ! inherited my singing voice from her, but it’s been a very long me since anyone asked me to sing a solo.

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