In the Community

For the third year in a row, Sunshine Coast Credit Union and MarketPlace IGA are hosting a movie event! Mark your calendars for this Thursday, Aug.

It's a beautiful summer day, a few puffy white clouds over the mountains, the inflow wind kicking up wavelets, perfect for some quality time afloat. Just out of the harbour the engine falters, sputters and dies into silence.

Cadet Nirmal Sadasivuni of Sechelt is spending his summer at the regional gliding school (Pacific) on the air cadet glider pilot scholarship course. Nirmal is one of 44 air cadets selected from across B.C.

A family fair usually means fun for the kids, and the children turned out in droves at the Gambier Island fair last Saturday to dress like pirates, eat sunflower cupcakes and play games in the community hall.

This Friday, Aug. 9, marks the eighth annual International Co-working Day. Sechelt's FUSE Community Work Hub is celebrating this anniversary by throwing open its doors and inviting the community to its first "jelly" events.

It's not every day St. Mary's Hospital gets to host royalty, but this weekend was a rare exception when Betty Kiloh, this year's Gibsons' Golden Girl, received her title in her hospital room.

Former Chatelech Secondary School student Sian Slingerland came in fifth place in the Miss Teen Canada beauty pageant recently, ahead of 60 other contestants vying for the title.

Bees are the theme of this year's mandala, which a record 600 community members helped paint this past week at the end of Roberts Creek Road.

Roberts Creek Legion Branch 219, like many other Legions in the country, is in serious financial trouble. The branch needs to attract new members and increase regular income for the long-term.

"Paddles up" was the action we were told to do by our skipper when we arrived back in Porpoise Bay after a three-day canoe journey up Sechelt Inlet. With this action we sang the shíshálh múyuk grizzly bear song.