In the Community

The Pender Harbour Community School has some great programs this month. Tonight Friday, Jan. 17 is family music night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the School of Music. This is a casual fun night of singing for all ages.

By the third week of January, even the most resolution-adverse among us typically raise our heads from post-holiday hibernation and realize wed better get with the program any program to detoxify from winter debauchery and excess.

If you wish to join the protest against BC Ferry cuts the closest gathering point will be the north end of Redrooffs Road at Highway 101 this Saturday, Jan. 18 at 12:30 p.m.

Tonight, Friday, April 18, the kitchen at the Roberts Creek Legion opens from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. You are invited to come and dine, enjoy live music from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Ah, the New Year, a time of fresh beginnings and exciting plans. You may already have resolutions to eat healthier, exercise more, and stress less.

Consuming alcohol is an accepted and common social practice. We imbibe to celebrate, forget, relax, drink with our meals and sometimes, to get us up on the dance floor.

Another year has arrived and some of us have a list of things we'd like to change to make 2014 a better year. Some of those things were on our list last year, and the year before that.

Starting next Saturday, Jan. 18, and ongoing on a monthly basis, a peer support group is being offered to individuals with an acquired brain injury (ABI) at St. John's United Church in Davis Bay.

The Sunshine Coast Power & Sail Squadron is announcing that its new training courses, starting later this month will run on Saturdays instead of weekday evenings, as in the past. This means that courses can be completed in a shorter time.

Matthew Drope has a bone marrow disease called aplastic anemia. He had a bone transplant Dec. 13, thanks to his younger brother Dylan.