I will sing the praises of boys to all those who are so dismayed with my Barbie-free family.

As the years went by, we created memories that will last forever in my mind and heart.

I've only been a mother for 18 months, but what an amazingly, exhausting, incredible time it has been.

The smallest voice asks, his small, sticky hands curling into mine, "Mommy, where were you? Were you out fighting roars?"

When I became a mother for the first time it was like I got the keys to a whole other dimension of love.

I remember standing outside my youngest daughter’s school one morning and thinking “I will be standing here for another 8 years, every morning.”

“Mommy, what is time?” my two-and-a-half year old randomly asked me. I answered it as simply as I could but it got me questioning what I really think about time.

I was leaving the grocery store on a Sunday morning. Cart overflowing with the usual suspects: toilet paper, cheese, and an assortment of items my three year old decided to add to the stash.

My best moment of motherhood that made the past 17 years of being a parent all worthwhile was when we received my son's acceptance letter to university.

Every mother wants the best for their child but you also want your child to do their best for society and community.

Mothers play an important role in the family and it takes learning and practice. It is not an easy job because we learn as we go.

Squamish is about to get healthier thanks to a Healthy Communities Collaboration Agreement endorsed by the District of Squamish and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).

Squamish is one of the 14 communities in the province that will soon benefit from new BC Early Years Centres, which provide one-stop early learning, health and family services to B.C. families with young children.

Almost all pilings and surface debris has been removed and a dredging company hired by the Terminals has now started to remove debris from the ocean floor which is expected to take one more week to complete.

Lovecoast will celebrate the release of the music video with a string of Western Canadian Tour Dates, starting with two hometown shows in Squamish at MATCH Eatery & Public House May 8th & 9th. See below for full listing of tour dates.

Every year British Columbians are involved in human-wildlife conflicts. To reduce these potentially dangerous situations, the Province is awarding WildSafeBC $275,000 to provide education and increase awareness in communities.

A list of locations where you can pick up the new Squamish Reporter newspaper.

Many pets without any form of permanent identification such as a microchip implant are never reunited with their human families, but the BC SPCA hopes to change that with an innovative new provincial pet identification registry to link missing companion animals with their anxious guardians.

Woodfibre LNG opponents have made a legal appeal to environment minister Leona Aglukkaq for the federal government to do its own examination of the Woodfibre LNG proposal rather than letting B.C. run the environmental assessment of the project.

Nick Pascuzzi will be the new principal of Howe Sound Secondary School and Robin Kirk will be the new principal of Don Ross Secondary School. Both start their new term on Ausgust 1, 2015.

We are all part of civil society. We each come with our own belief system whether it is religion with a capital noun such as Islam or Christianity, a less organized form of spirituality or as an avowed atheist.

The wealth and value of art is that the journey or experience helps get us closer in our struggle to understand.

when I heard we were getting an international artist in Squamish, I expected something truly unique. I was excited and waiting to be inspired but I must say I’m utterly disappointed at the Blue Tree Project.

You don’t have to be a finance whiz-kid or a marketing guru to become a successful entrepreneur. You don’t even need to have lots of money. Here are a few inspiring stories of ordinary people in Squamish who have built businesses by just following their need to succeed.

The Centre for Sustainability is launching a new Social Venture Challenge (SVC), a new program to support entrepreneurs in the Squamish-Lillooet / Sea to Sky region to develop new business initiatives that have community benefits.