In the Community

Horns will be blowing and flags will be flying on Friday, May 1 between 7 and 8 p.m.

School District No. 46 (SD46) is bolstering its sunny ways with additional solar installations at three of its elementary schools, making it far and away the largest producer of solar energy of any school district in the province.

The Sechelt Library invites kids in Grade 7 and under to participate in our at-home Spring Reading Program while the library remains closed. We understand being at home at this time comes with its challenges and we want to help where we can.

Three Sunshine Coast doctors once again joined forces online to offer insight and to answer questions about challenging emotions people are facing as pandemic restrictions continue.

The goose migration over the Sunshine Coast was very concentrated this spring with thousands (tens of thousands?) of birds flying overhead in the three-day period, April 16 to 18.

Hi everyone! Thank you for your welcoming comments and encouraging words as I navigate through this new adventure. Thank you again to Terry Knight for his contributions to the column, the Halfmoon Bay community and beyond.

Sick Monday I could feel it coming on. Suddenly the house wasn’t warm enough and I couldn’t get comfortable on the couch. I grabbed my thermometer and went to bed, took my temperature and it was 100 F, so I knew something was up.

Joe Gonsalves (‘Portuguese Joe No. 3’) founded Madeira Park in 1904, establishing its business infrastructure and naming it after the island of Madeira. Our community has many family members living here today.

Judy Dunbar and husband Gary Sananin have created this colourful assemblage of floats in front of their home on Franklin Road in Gibsons, dedicated to health care and other frontline workers during the pandemic.

Drew Murphy, the acting principal at Elphinstone Secondary School, will be retiring at the end of this school year after 34 years in the profession. “I’ve had a deeply rewarding career at SD46.