Burnaby NewsLeader

Share your holiday rituals with NewsLeader readers

The NewsLeader hopes you will share with us—and our readers. The holiday season is steeped with ritual and tradition. There are some common traditions shared by many—setting up a tree with lights in t… more
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New Westminster News Leader

COFFEE WITH: A life in tune

John White was comfortable doing gigs. Growing up in Calgary, he’d played violin, piano, clarinet, and several other instruments, as well as sung in choirs. John paid his way through university in the… more
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New Westminster News Leader

Concert band celebrates 75 years  

By Wanda Chow NewsLeader It was the Easter break in 1972 and a group of kids from the Lower Mainland stepped off a DC-3 propeller plane onto the tarmac in Cambridge Bay, in what was then the Northwe… more
Burnaby NewsLeader

The disease that whispers

There was a time when Marguerite Kohnke couldn’t help but look at other women’s bellies. It was the fall of 1998 when sh… more
Burnaby NewsLeader

COFFEE WITH: Book smart

In October 1962, Edel Toner-Rogala overheard a conversation that would change her life. Then seven years old, she was in… more
Burnaby NewsLeader

Santa on parade a little later

Santa Claus is arriving in Burnaby’s Edmonds neighbourhoood a bit later this year. But only by a few hours. The sixth an… more
Burnaby NewsLeader

Myles of Beans closing down

It’s like the closing of a community centre or the removal of a well used park bench. The Edmonds/HighGate area of Burna… more
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