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BOARD GETS THEIR GOAT, CHEESE PLEASE

Imagine a place where you spend a heck of a lot less time in your car and a heck of a lot less money on real estate.

In our final installment of our year-end atonement series, the wrongdoers at K&K come clean with our most shameful dirty secrets in the hope of starting 2013 with a shiny new slate.

I n my last entry, I told you about the gifts that some city councillors received over the calendar year. I didn't tell you about the gifts received by city staff.

National Rewind Your VCR Day Comes to Vancouver, Jan. 5. The Rewind specialty channel that airs classic movies from the 1970s, '80s and '90s will donate $25 for each VCR donated to World Wildlife Fund Canada.

Public opinion polls claim more than half of Canadians have lost interest in the National Hockey League lockout, which threatens to cancel the season. Jersey-wearing Premier Christy Clark is surely among the diehards begging for labour peace.

Celebrate the launch of the Vancouver Observer's e-book about the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, Jan. 12. The official debut of Extract: The Pipeline Wars Vol. 1 Enbridge at Ceili's Irish Pub and Bar at 670 Smithe St.

SWEET SPOT with Eagranie Yuh

Park board users can likely consider 2012 as the beginning of the end for traditional joint-operating agreements between community centres and the park board.

NEIGHBOURHOOD DISENT ON THE RIZE, PARKS