In the Community

For those of you looking for a cancer support group, FLAIR on the Coast is reopening Saturday, Sept. 11, 10 a.m. to noon at the Rockwood Centre in Sechelt. This first day back will be an open forum with shared stories.

After doing this column for a hundred weeks I finally did something I never did before, I took two weeks off! Well, now I have some catching up to do so I’ll just do it in bullet points: • Bears: yep, we got ’em.

Did you know that the single biggest action you can take to reduce your carbon footprint is to choose active transportation? This is one of the many reasons Transportation Choices (TraC) celebrates Active Transportation Weeks each year with fun commu

Many years ago, the founder of Sunshine Coast Hospice Society, Rosemary Hoare, left an enduring legacy by providing a planned gift to Hospice with the funds to rent a program and office space from the District of Sechelt, located just up a rocky path

Sechelt resident Judy Malnarick has recently published a most interesting Family History and donated copies to the Sechelt Community Archives and to the Sechelt Public Library.

This coming Monday, Sept. 6, the Pender Harbour Food Bank Society will have an open-air market for food bank clients from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tables will be laden with donated veggies, fruit, purchased eggs and milk.

Our water situation has become dire. It doesn’t accomplish anything to complain about what the SCRD should have done years ago.

The Sunshine Coast Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) presents the Explore the Universe Challenge online on Zoom Sept. 10 at 7 p.m.

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful week and enjoyed some of our much-needed rain.