In the Community

On June 9, children, families, community members and School District No. 46 (SD46) personnel gathered to celebrate the StrongStart program at Madeira Park Elementary School.

After missing a year, the Duck Pluck children's festival and fundraiser is back for a seventh time. The Children's Festival and Duck Pluck Raffle, June 20 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Madeira Park gardens are featured in this weekend's Art in the Gardens Tour Saturday, June 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Last Saturday at Trail Bay Centre in Sechelt, the Sunshine Dragons, a division of the Gibsons Paddle Club (GPC), held their inaugural Fill the Boat for the Food Bank food drive. Starting at 7:45 a.m.

The Fiddlehead Farmers' Market in Upper Gibsons begins its third season on Saturday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. behind the curling club.

Want to see a dragon boat up close and support the food bank at the same time? If so, then on Saturday, June 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., check out the dragon boat and the paddlers at the Trail Bay Centre in Sechelt and you can do just that.

Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Such is the case with Howe Sound Pulp and Paper's (HSPP) mill. Over its 100 years of being, the mill has always been subject to many different fluctuations.

What speaks volumes about Shannon Broderick is not the BC SPCA staff excellence award she won, but the number of people who nominated her for it - seven, in fact.

The Sechelt and Gibsons Rotary Clubs are teaming up for a charity hole-in-one golf event at the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club in Roberts Creek. The event is set for Saturday, June 20.

Do you have what it takes to grow the largest sunflower? The Elphinstone Electors invite you to take part in their inaugural sunflower growing contest for young people.