Happy St. Patrick's Day from the VSO! In keeping with the spirit of St. Paddy, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents A Celtic Celebration - complete with hot Celtic fiddling, Irish songs, Irish dancing, and of course, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, on Friday & Saturday, March 16 & 17, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre!

After launching the pilot program to great success last year, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's new elementary in-school music education program, VSO Connects Elementary, is now fully underway in schools throughout the Lower Mainland this spring.

Starfire Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Philip J. Rush, P. Geo. has agreed to join the Company as the Qualified Person as that term is defined in National Instrument 43-101 and has been appointed a Director.

Colibri Resource Corporation has completed a program of rock chip sampling and geological mapping on the 3200 hectare Leon site, a historic mining district in Sonora, Mexico. The Leon Project is held by an option agreement to acquire 100% ownership between the Mexican subsidiary of Colibri, Minera Halcones SA de CV, and a private Mexican company.

Mirasol Resources Ltd. would like to inform its investors that the company has commenced an exploration program in the Tertiary Arc of Chile and Argentina. This program aims to build a new portfolio of gold-silver-copper projects for Mirasol in this world-class mineral belt.

Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation announced today that Justin Morneau, reigning American League Most Valuable Player, has entered into a worldwide product endorsement relationship with Clearly Canadian. This one year exclusive agreement adds British Columbian born Justin Morneau of the Minnesota Twins to the Company's impressive roster of "clearly" Canadian corporate spokespeople that also features two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash.

Tower Energy Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Ray as a Director and President. Mr Ray has been the Chairman and Chief Executive of Heritage Petroleum Plc and also the President and Director of Golden Dynasty Resources Limited. Mr. Ray joins the Company as its President replacing Mr. James Watt who has resigned for personal family matters.

The 8th annual Robert Bateman Writing and Art Contest launched today at the Vancouver Aquarium with a lively painting tutorial from local artist 'Rogest' and a creative writing workshop from 'Lolo' of the children's duo Bobs and Lolo with Grade 7 students from Vancouver's General Wolfe Elementary. Our red-tailed hawk, Rudy, also flew in for a visit.

Three levels of government, represented by BC MP Ron Cannan, MLA Colin Hansen, BC Minister of Economic Development, and Mayor Sam Sullivan celebrated Aquaquest - the Marilyn Blusson Learning Centre, which is slated to be the first LEED Gold cultural institution in Canada. Aquaquest is fully equipped with state-of-the-art green technology thanks to a $1 million investment from Western Economic Diversification Canada specifically for green building development.

SNS Silver Corporation reports today that pursuant to the Company's Stock Option Plan, a total of 1,535,000 incentive stock options were granted on February 27, 2007, to directors, officers, consultants and employees of the Company. Of the total stock options granted, 1,300,000 options were granted to directors and senior officers.

A daring, thoroughly original, and completely fearless artist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg remains on the cutting edge of classical recording and performing, is in high demand with orchestras world-wide, and is unanimously considered one of the handful of truly great violinists of this or any era.

Polaris Minerals Corporation today announced that it has applied for a license of occupation covering a promising sand and gravel deposit on northern Vancouver Island, B.C.