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<title>The National Franchise &amp; Business Opportunities Show-Vancouver </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=3032</link>
<description>The National Franchise &amp;amp; Business Opportunities Show affords an
unmatched opportunity for you to meet with, develop strategic
partnerships &amp;amp; sell to thousands of small &amp;amp; emerging
busine</description>
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<title>The Outdoor Adventure Show-Vancouver </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=3033</link>
<description> The Outdoor Adventure Show offers an incredible outdoor adventure and
travel marketplace. It is one of the biggest consumer shows of any kind
in the country attracting high spending visitors from a</description>
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<title>The Vancouver Golf &amp; Travel Show </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=3034</link>
<description>The Vancouver Golf &amp;amp; Travel Show offers the best and largest
selection of golf equipment, accessories and travel opportunities all
in one incredible golf market-place.&lt;br&gt;
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<title>Buildex Vancouver</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2753</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;The BUILDEX brand of expositions are annual regional conferences and expositions encompassing the commercial, institutional, governmental, and residential property &amp;amp; facility management industr</description>
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<title>BC Construction Show</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2754</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;BC Construction Show is a venue for Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Renovators, Developers, Builders and Specifiers to come together annually. Accredited speakers will educate the above groups </description>
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<title>Design Northwest </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=3031</link>
<description>The DesignTrends brand of trade shows are annual regional conferences
and expositions encompassing the commercial, institutional,
governmental, and residential interior design and architectural
ind</description>
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<title> Sweets Expo-Vancouver </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=3030</link>
<description>Sweets Expo is uniquely designed for you to showcase your products and
services before tens of thousands of consumers. During this two day
event you will generate hundreds of leads, immediate sales,</description>
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<title>Vancouver International Boat Show</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2752</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;The Vancouver Boat Show is definitely a 'one-stop-shop' - featuring everything from canoes, kayaks, inflatables, runabouts, pontoon and deck boats, fishing boats, cruisers and motoryachts and sailb</description>
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<title>Project World-Vancouver</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2751</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;Project World is one of the leading venues for members of the project management community to continue to hone their skills. Through our Exposition, Workshops, Forums, and Symposiums, ProjectWorld </description>
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<title>Vancouver Snow Show</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2750</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;Vancouver Snow Show promises to entertain, educate and excite the legions of long time and new skiers and snowboarders in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Highlights:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;The Ca</description>
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<title>FTX WEST Film &amp; Television Expo</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2748</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;FTX WEST Film &amp;amp; Television Expo with an estimated five thousand attendees and nearly eighty exhibitors in attendance, showcasing the latest and greatest in film &amp;amp; video technology from arou</description>
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<title>Vancouver Home &amp; Interior Design Show</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2749</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;Vancouver Home &amp;amp; Interior Design Show continues to prove that it is a premiere event in the Vancouver Marketplace and is an excellent venue to showcase your products and services. Whether you a</description>
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<title>Sweets Expo-Vancouver</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=2747</link>
<description>&lt;P&gt;Sweets Expo is uniquely designed for you to showcase your products and services before tens of thousands of consumers. During this two day event you will generate hundreds of leads, immediate sales</description>
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<title>TAKU RESORT ART RETREAT</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1202</link>
<description>***Relaxing Naturally*** A creative adventure that you will cherish forever! Get inspired by the beauty of your island retreat. The solitude will breathe fresh air into your life. The Canadian natural</description>
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<title>3rd Annual Main Days </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1670</link>
<description>3rd Annual Main Days - fun for the whole family. Come join and support the Main Street retailers and celebrate with live music, children`s entertainment, dance exhibits, sidewalk sales and more. On Ma</description>
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<title>Phoenix Perennials Benefit for HomeStart Foundation (6/3/2006 to 6/4/2006   )</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1671</link>
<description>Phoenix Perennials is holding a special shopping event to benefit HomeStart Foundation. Have fun shopping for the botanically intriguing at one of the largest nurseries in the lower mainland, with ove</description>
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<title>50 Km Cyclathon </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1668</link>
<description> To raise funds for the services of Gather and Give Charitable Foundation. Registration at 7:45am. Meet at 206-236 West 7th Ave, back warehouse door. BBQ &amp; refreshments provided. E-mail to request a p</description>
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<title>3rd Annual Main Days </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1669</link>
<description>3rd Annual Main Days - fun for the whole family. Come join and support the Main Street retailers and celebrate with live music, children`s entertainment, dance exhibits, sidewalk sales and more. On Ma</description>
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<title>Memorial Day Ceremony</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1611</link>
<description>
Ceremony to honor our countrys veterans. 

Includes the Southwest Washington Honor Guard and a wreath-laying by Mayor Pollard and the 104th Division Commander, MG Moffett.

Time: 11 AM to 12 PM </description>
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<title>Pirate Island: the Musical(May 25, 2006 to May 27, 2006)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1612</link>
<description>Vancouver High School is presenting &quot;Pirate Island: the Musical&quot; by Martin A. Follose. 

Hilarity ensues when a group of quirky castaways wash up on a shore that is inhabited by misfit pirates and g</description>
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<title>Casting Call for Much Ado About Nothing(May 22, 2006 to May 24, 2006)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1613</link>
<description>The New Blue Parrot Theatre will be holding auditions for their upcoming production, Much Ado About Nothing. 

Auditions are open to actors 16 and up, including actors fluent in American Sign Langua</description>
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<title>TAKU RESORT ART RETREAT</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1201</link>
<description>***Relaxing Naturally*** A creative adventure that you will cherish forever! Get inspired by the beauty of your island retreat. The solitude will breathe fresh air into your life. The Canadian natural</description>
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<title>The Harlem Globetrotteres</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1196</link>
<description>HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS COMING TO VANCOUVER!

Tickets for 2006 Western Union-Sponsored &#8216;Unstoppable&#8217; North American Tour on Sale Now.

Celebrating their 80th Anniversary, the World Famous Harlem Glob</description>
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<title>Bob Newhart</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1199</link>
<description>It's a stammer, not a stutter, Bob Newhart would say about his tentative mode of speaking, which he claims got him his posh home in Bel Air.

Best known in the 70's as Dr. Robert Hartley in the sitc</description>
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<title>No Great Mischief (April 15 - May 6)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1200</link>
<description>By David S. Young...

A transplanted tale of hope and heartbreak... 

Family both past and present is the glue that holds humanity together, a truism that Alistair MacLeod spins out engagingly and</description>
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<title>Deep Sea: The Ride</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1197</link>
<description>Visitors to Deep Sea are taken aboard a submersible in search of the two great monsters of the deep ocean: The Giant Squid and the Sperm Whale. Two kilometres beneath the Ocean's surface, where pressu</description>
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<title>SpringFest (April 13 - May 31)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1198</link>
<description>Take a magical trip through the revitalizing forest and blooming gardens of the Bear Creek Park. Don&#8217;t miss the &quot;springtime&quot; theme tunnel. The park is open daily from 10am.

Entry Fee: Children 2-12</description>
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<title>Waiting for Godot (April 13 - April 23)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1203</link>
<description>In this seminal work by Samuel Beckett, one of the masters of 20th-century drama, the stark realities of a thoroughly alienated world are conveyed. Didi and Gogo, modern literature&#8217;s two most valiant </description>
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<title>Back to the 90s Theme Party</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1204</link>
<description>Since most of us are off work on Good Friday, we plan to take full advantage of the long weekend (again) and host a back to the 90s party! Dress up in anything 90s and be ready to rock out to 90s tune</description>
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<title>Ryderz Image Easter Weekend Party</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1205</link>
<description>Ryderz Image 2K6 Partay...

Come party with the Onetymerz and Lane Splitters crews @ Au Bar on April 13th.

LS Enterprises presents Ryderz image 2K6 - the launch of the RIU-Wear Urban Motorsports </description>
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<title>Vancouver Canucks (April 13 - April 15)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=1195</link>
<description>The Vancouver Canucks will make another exciting run at the Stanley Cup for the 2005-2006 NHL season.</description>
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<title>Dress For Success Suit Blitz (March 27-28)</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=834</link>
<description>Pacific Centre and Cadillac Fairview are hosting a Suit Blitz to benefit the Dress for Success organization! Please bring women&#8217;s clean, ready-to-interview suits, and/or a financial donation to the Dr</description>
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<title>Hair &amp; Make-Up Industry Professionals Night </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=833</link>
<description>Bluelite Entertainment brings to you a Hair &amp; Make-Up Industry Professionals Night on March 1st at Tonic. This will be your chance to network, meet and greet new people, exchange business cards, promo</description>
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<title> Career &amp; Job Search Tour @ VPL</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=642</link>
<description>Library Events - VPL
Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are w</description>
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<title>The Company of Others: Stories of Belonging</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=640</link>
<description>Library Events - VPL
A slide show and panel discussion about a made-in-Canada cure for loneliness that is changing the lives of vulnerable individuals - those living with disability, mental illness, </description>
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<title>PUBLIC HEARING </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=641</link>
<description>PUBLIC HEARING 
TIME: 7:30 p.m. 
PLEASE NOTE: 
&#8226;  A complete video stream of the meeting will be available the day following the meeting. 
&#8226;  If you wish to speak at the Public Hearing, please con</description>
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<title>West Point Grey Community Vision Fair</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=636</link>
<description>Join us for the official opening, Saturday at 11 am. The Fair is the kick-off event for the West Point Grey Community Vision program. Over the next 18 months City staff will work with area residents t</description>
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<title>Chinese New Year celebrations</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=637</link>
<description>Celebrate the Year of the Dog with sound, color, and joy. The Garden's plum blossom trees will be in full bloom signifying the return of spring. Activities include fortune telling, martial arts, calli</description>
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<title>2006 Chinese New Year Parade - Year of the Dog</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=638</link>
<description>Holidays and Celebrations
Lions dance, dragon dance, musical bands, folk dance and traditional costumes.
Time: 12:00 PM 
 
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<title>West Point Grey Community Vision Fair</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=635</link>
<description>Join us for the official opening, Saturday at 11 am. The Fair is the kick-off event for the West Point Grey Community Vision program. Over the next 18 months City staff will work with area residents t</description>
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<title>Career &amp; Job Search Tour @ VPL </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=392</link>
<description>Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are welcome, no need to pre</description>
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<title>Career &amp; Job Search Tour @ VPL </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=391</link>
<description>Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are welcome, no need to pre</description>
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<title>Christmas Eve candlelight service </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=402</link>
<description>Traditional Christmas Eve service, with carolling, choirs, prayer &amp; fellowship. Refreshments afterward, in the church hall. We invite all our neighbours in the Cambie area to join us at this special
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<title>VOC Soul Gospel Choir - Soul Gospel Christmas 2005 </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=400</link>
<description>Checo Tohomaso and the Vancouver Outreach Community Soul Gospel Choir (VOC) are pleased to announce our upcoming Christmas concert on Thursday, December 22nd 2005. The dynamic VOC Soul Gospel Cho

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<title>Christmas with Soli </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=399</link>
<description>Vocal quintet Soli celebrates the Christmas season with jazz and classical arrangements from around the world. Special guest Bill Coon's elegant guitar work is sure to add textures both exciting and s</description>
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<title>Career &amp; Job Search Tour @ VPL </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=394</link>
<description>Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are welcome, no need to pre</description>
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<title>Christmas lights tour </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=398</link>
<description>There will be a whole group of us celebrating the occasion together. There are many sites around the city to enjoy and we will try to get to as many as we have time for. $10.00 includes the ride and </description>
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<title>Career &amp; Job Search Tour @ VPL </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=393</link>
<description>Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are welcome, no need to pre</description>
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<title>Parlour Concert </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=396</link>
<description>Arts, Theatre and Cultural in West End 
Synergy, the 12 voice a cappella ensemble of the Vancouver Men's Chorus will serenade you with holiday classics and contemporary bonbons, all arranged for the </description>
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<title>Christmas luncheon </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=397</link>
<description>
We are celebrating our annual Christmas luncheon with music from the Choir the Winds. Join us for turkey and all of the fixings for just $7.00, who knows maybe Santa will drop by! Phone to sign up b</description>
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<title>Career &amp; Job Search Tour @ VPL </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=390</link>
<description>Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are welcome, no need to pre</description>
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<title>BC Lions Football</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=125</link>
<description>
June - November 

Join the BC Lions this year as they try to bring the Grey Cup back to Vancouver! 

Time 7:00pm</description>
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<title>'Mountaintop Unity'</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=126</link>
<description>
There is a new spiritual community of people who are creating a world where God's unconditional love comes to life.'Mountaintop Unity' meets Sunday mornings at 10:30am at the Lonsdale Quay Hotel in </description>
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<title>Queen Elizabeth Theatre</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=132</link>
<description>
&#187;  Jann Arden 
 Thursday, October 13, 2005 to Friday, October 14, 2005 Thurs Fri  
 
&#187;  Turandot 
 Saturday, October 22, 2005 to Thursday, November 03, 2005 Tues Thurs  
 
&#187;  Dialogues of the </description>
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<title>George Jones</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=128</link>
<description>


More Info: 
GEORGE JONES W/GUEST RONNIE PROPHET 

Time: 07:30 PM</description>
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<title>NINE YEARS ON THE SEVEN SEAS</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=129</link>
<description>
Join Bluewater Cruising Association members at their monthly club night as vetern sailors Anne Brevig and Martin Vennesland present a slide show featuring the highs and lows of their nine-year circu</description>
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<title>Career &amp; Job Search Tour  VPL -Library Events - VPL in Downtown</title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=130</link>
<description> 
Provides an introduction to the career and job search resources available in the Science and Business Division. Tours are Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and Wednesdays at 2:30 pm. All are welcome, no need to </description>
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<title>City co-sponsors Emergency Preparedness Workshops (free and open to the public) NEPP Workshops in Kitsilano </title>
<link>http://www.desidirectory.com/Usr_Event_Details.asp?region=Vancouver&amp;EventID=131</link>
<description>
Free public workshops on emergency preparedness in the home. Learn the basics of personal preparedness, including a family emergency plan, out-of-area contact, and grab-and-go kit. Learn how to pre</description>
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