In our music community, the annual Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival is taken for granted — a fact of life like the coming of spring.

Canadian music icon Burton Cummings says he is recovering from several injuries he suffered in a car crash last Sunday in Los Angeles.

The clock is Ticos tocking on Kendall Waston’s time with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Just three games remain before the Caps’ formidable centreback heads to Russia to join Los Ticos and his Costa Rican teammates for the World Cup, leaving the Major League Soccer side without the player who, arguably, is most integral to the squad’s success.

It was a dramatic tie that felt like a win — or perhaps a loss if you were seated in Sections 249-254 at B.