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Vedder elementary is growing young environmentalists. The elementary school won the inaugural Chilliwack Green Games, a district-wide competition encouraging staff and students to save the environment by changing their behaviours.

The Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association (BIA) has been awarded the “Best in the West” trophy in the category of Marketing, Promotions and Special Events recognizing B.C.’s best Business Improvement Area to employ promotions, special events, branding and media relations to support their programs and services.

With layers of dirt crusting under her fingernails, 13-year-old Robyn Page was in her element. While other girls her age might turn their noses up at the mere sight of dirt, and are often more concerned with painting their nails, and chasing boys, than growing plants and vegetables, not Page.

Some invasive plants were being pulled from Island 22 Regional Park last week thanks to a group of G.W. Graham students involved in Take Action Day.

The owners of two local ventures, Kim Mallory Photography and Diva Boutique, are inviting local women to treat themselves to a Domestic Diva Night on April 29. All proceeds are going to the Ann Davis Transition Society.

A device that helps nurses and physicians better monitor a baby while it’s still in the womb tops the shopping list in this year’s annual Envision Run For Mom.

A group of Chilliwack kids are proving you don’t need to be an adult to have compassion. Megan Shields and Ashley Moorhouse, Grade 6 students at Little Mountain elementary, knew they had to do something to help their peers in Japan following last month’s massive earthquake.

Chilliwack's young are getting an early lesson in democracy.