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The Douglas College Royals

Third year a charm for Douglas College softball

The Douglas College Royals came oh, so close to their first-ever championship women's softball title.


 
Doug Fast is the CEO of Burnaby's NYCE Control,

Monitor home from an iPhone

Home monitoring is a growing market that could be worth $60 billion by 2017, according to Juniper Research, and a Burnaby-based company is getting in on it.


 

Burnaby gym shuts its doors

Another gym in Burnaby has shut its doors less than a year after Fit City for Women closed down.


 

Sharing tales from far away

The Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table is organizing a storytelling project so refugees and new immigrants can share their tales with the community.


 

Waiting for a garden plot

Spring has arrived over at the Burnaby and Region Allotment Gardens where a new crop of gardeners are eagerly awaiting plots.


 

Shadbolt presents self-titled Ballet B.C. show

Burnaby is the place to be this month for an inside view of Ballet B.C.'s latest work.


 

BCAA helps kids' camp

The B.C. Automobile Association and Belfor Property Restoration teamed up May 16 to help prepare an Easter Seals B.C. summer camp for kids with disabilities.


 
Estrella de Chile, in white, played the Kamloops Heat

Pacific Coast league premier men's soccer

The heat is on: Estrella de Chile, in white, played the Kamloops Heat to a 2-2 draw at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Saturday.


 
Burnaby Minor Brewers

Burnaby Minor peewee baseball - A1 Brewers versus A2 Red Sox

Peewee at the bat: The Burnaby Minor Brewers took on the Red Sox in a peewee A baseball game at Harwood Park in Burnaby on Sunday.


 
The Burnaby Zoo

Vancouver International field hockey tournament

Animal farm: The Burnaby Zoo, in pink, took on the Panthers in a women's social pool division game at the Vancouver International field hockey tournament at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Sunday.


 
Burnaby Lake park interpreter Caitlin Kobitzsch

Forest fairies visit Burnaby Lake Park

Fun in the forest: Burnaby Lake park interpreter Caitlin Kobitzsch hands a fairy to Allie Nordal at the Forest Fairy Gathering at the Burnaby Lake Nature House on Saturday. There were costumes, free face painting, and visitors made their own fairy and gnome homes.


 
Steamworks Brewing Company president Walter Cosman

Steamworks brewery opening in Burnaby

While dozens of breweries seem to be popping up everywhere else in the Lower Mainland, Burnaby is finally getting one of its very own.


 
Lisa Chin

Local farm supplies Choices

For three years, Dave Carlson has been running Burnaby's Common Ground Community Farm, growing a variety of crops for shareholders, but the farm's salad greens will be sprouting up in Choices Markets across the Lower Mainland.


 

Scoreline maligns stronger effort by improving Lakers

The Burnaby junior A Lakers will have to learn to not read too much into a final score following a pair of recent B.C. Junior Lacrosse League losses.


 

Standout career comes to early end

Riley Loewen of Burnaby ended his NCAA Division II field lacrosse career four points shy of an all-time points record and one goal away from a second-straight appearance in a national championship final.


 

Lakers toppled by Timbermen in WLA opener

The Burnaby Lakers didn't get the start they wanted in the Western Lacrosse Association season opener.


 

Burnaby man among those arrested at Mission grow-op

A 33-year-old Burnaby man was arrested in Mission on May 3 as part of five search warrants executed by B.C.'s anti-gang police.


 

Paper Postcards

Take a copy of the Burnaby NOW along with you on your next trip. Take a photo of yourself in front of a scenic backdrop or landmark, holding the newspaper.


 

Environmental strategy takes three phases

Burnaby council continues to push its environmental sustainability strategy through several phases of public consultation.