Family Services of the North Shore’s Christmas Bureau is hosting a raffle – with five great prizes up for grabs – that ends tonight! The Christmas Bureau ensures that low-income and vulnerable families, individuals, and seniors can celebrate the holidays.

Adopt-A-Family Programs in Metro Vancouver for the Holidays – from the Surrey Christmas Bureau to Family Services North Shore and beyond

Last night while watching my niece and nephews track NORAD Santa through Egypt it finally felt like Christmas. The hustle and bustle of daily life, not to mention keeping up with work up until Christmas Eve night, didn’t quite make me feel the holiday spirit this year until that moment. The family got together last […]

One of my favourite memories as a girl was picking out our Christmas tree. This only happened every 5 or 6 years though as we would get a live tree which we placed in a massive pot, decorated, cared for until after Christmas and then planted in our backyard until the following year when we […]

Update December 8, 2009: The 2009 tree lighting happens tonight at 5:30pm with special guests including Diana Krall & Elvis Costello. At 6:00pm today a Christmas tree will be lit in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery to welcome the holiday season in Vancouver. Photo: SqueakyMarmot The second annual Amacon Christmas Tree lighting will be […]