New Year's

“Pastor Mike Vaters of Living Waters Church helps a senior in a wheelchair enjoy the ice skating event on New Year’s Day. A family member looks on with a smile. (Tanmay Ahluwalia/Langley Advance Times)

Langley community comes together for New Year’s day family ice skating events

Two local non-profits bring together hundreds to celebrate the start of 2023

 

Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man, Mothering Heights was the top pick for kids, and Jurassic World was the top pick for moviegoers at the Fraser Valley Regional Library in 2022. (FVRL images)

Kids and teens reached for humour off Fraser Valley Regional Library shelves in 2022

Dog Man, Wimpy Kid, Baby-sitters Club series all top picks for young Fraser Valley readers

 

Keep some of that holiday spirit going this year. (Langley Advance Times files)

IN OUR VIEW: This year, resolve to be kind

Peel back a layer of cynicism for 2023

  • Jan 1, 2023
Keep some of that holiday spirit going this year. (Langley Advance Times files)
Kezia Adva Anderson, the newest addition to the Anderson-Nickel family in Clayton Heights, Langley, born on New Year’s Day at 3:39 a.m. (Special to Langley Advance Times)

Langley family welcomes New Year’s baby Kezia Adva Anderson

Baby girl’s early arrival brings joy to Langley family

Kezia Adva Anderson, the newest addition to the Anderson-Nickel family in Clayton Heights, Langley, born on New Year’s Day at 3:39 a.m. (Special to Langley Advance Times)
B.C.’s first baby of the new year is Gabriella Louise Camayan, born at Abbotsford Regional Hospital at 12:02 a.m. The proud parents are Arben Camayan and Thea Villaneu. (Fraser Health photo)

B.C.’s New Year’s baby is a little girl born in the Fraser Valley

Wee one at 5 lbs, 10 oz born at 12:02 a.m. at Abbotsford Regional Hospital

B.C.’s first baby of the new year is Gabriella Louise Camayan, born at Abbotsford Regional Hospital at 12:02 a.m. The proud parents are Arben Camayan and Thea Villaneu. (Fraser Health photo)
‘Customers ride for free starting at 5:00 p.m. on December 31,’ says TransLink (Submitted photo: TransLink)

Free transit in Metro Vancouver on New Year’s Eve, TransLink says

From 5:00 p.m. (Dec. 31) to 5:00 a.m. (Jan. 1) TransLink is offering free transit

‘Customers ride for free starting at 5:00 p.m. on December 31,’ says TransLink (Submitted photo: TransLink)
Kamila Nowak, director and instructor at The Lab Westshore yoga studio, practices some poses Thursday, Dec. 15. The studio expects a busy new year as people make new year’s resolutions, but UVic psychology professor Frederick Grouzet cautions people to ensure they are finding personal motivation for a resolution, rather than an external motivation, if they want to succeed. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

Right motivations key for New Year’s resolutions, says University of Victoria professor

Wanting to start anew is natural for humans, but pressure to do so makes it harder to succeed

Kamila Nowak, director and instructor at The Lab Westshore yoga studio, practices some poses Thursday, Dec. 15. The studio expects a busy new year as people make new year’s resolutions, but UVic psychology professor Frederick Grouzet cautions people to ensure they are finding personal motivation for a resolution, rather than an external motivation, if they want to succeed. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
Kamila Nowak, director and instructor at The Lab Westshore yoga studio, practices some poses Thursday, Dec. 15. The studio expects a busy new year as people make new year’s resolutions. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

WEB POLL: Do you stick to your New Year’s resolutions?

It’s almost time to promise to change for 2023

  • Dec 29, 2022
Kamila Nowak, director and instructor at The Lab Westshore yoga studio, practices some poses Thursday, Dec. 15. The studio expects a busy new year as people make new year’s resolutions. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
British Columbians can make bets on which hospital will deliver the first baby of 2023, up until Dec. 31 at 6 a.m. (Credit: Pixabay/christianabella)

Betting open on which B.C. hospital will deliver the first baby of 2023

B.C. Women’s Hospital holds the best odds, as usual

British Columbians can make bets on which hospital will deliver the first baby of 2023, up until Dec. 31 at 6 a.m. (Credit: Pixabay/christianabella)
Swimmers braved the cold to participate in the 2018 edition of the informal Polar Bear Plunge in the freezing waters of Bedford Channel in Fort Langley. After a two-year shutdown, organizer Kovacs said it’s a go for Sunday, Jan. 1 at noon. (Langley Advance Times file)

Fort Langley Polar Bear Swim returns

Informal dunking set for noon New Year’s Day

Swimmers braved the cold to participate in the 2018 edition of the informal Polar Bear Plunge in the freezing waters of Bedford Channel in Fort Langley. After a two-year shutdown, organizer Kovacs said it’s a go for Sunday, Jan. 1 at noon. (Langley Advance Times file)
Baby Joshua was Fraser Health region’s first baby of 2022, born at 12:05 a.m. Jan. 1 at Surrey Memorial Hospital. (Contributed photo)

Fraser Health’s first baby of 2022 born in Surrey

Langley parents welcomed Joshua at 12:05 a.m., while White Rock’s New Year baby arrived at 1:33 a.m.

Baby Joshua was Fraser Health region’s first baby of 2022, born at 12:05 a.m. Jan. 1 at Surrey Memorial Hospital. (Contributed photo)
Langley Memorial Hospital welcomed a baby boy at 3:06 a.m., on Jan. 1 2022.

Langley welcomed a baby boy on the New Year Day

Born at the Langley Memorial Hospital

Langley Memorial Hospital welcomed a baby boy at 3:06 a.m., on Jan. 1 2022.
A merchant, second from right, sells seafoods to yearend shoppers at a street in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Omicron’s New Year’s cocktail: Sorrow, fear, hope for 2022

New Year’s Eve, which used to be celebrated globally with a free-spirited wildness, felt instead like a case of deja vu

A merchant, second from right, sells seafoods to yearend shoppers at a street in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)