In the Community

The Angel Tree Project is hosting their annual fundraiser, this year a haunted gingerbread house building contest. The fun happens from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 724 TruemanRd. in Gibsons (next to the United Church).

This year's fourth annual Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival is being held Oct. 20 at the Pender Harbour Community Hall.

Coasters are encouraged to come out on Sunday, Oct. 14, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for a volunteer community clean-up and planting at the maze garden in Shirley Macey Park. Look for details on the SCRD website at www.scrd.ca.

The United Nations has declared Oct. 11 the International Day of the Girl. UN International Days inspire action groups and charities to fulfill the meanings of these special days.

A comfy bed and a good book sound like the perfect antidote to the onset of fall, but organizers of the Whistler Readers and Writers Festival have something less solitary in mind. From Oct.

Beyond The Blues is an annual event sponsored by BC Mental Health and Addiction Services and hosted here on the Sunshine Coast by the BC Schizophrenia Society, Sunshine Coast Branch.

Gibsons author and stage performer Jean-Pierre Makosso was so glad to see his wife Yvette after 11 years apart that he ran to her - on his knees. It happened at Vancouver International Airport on Sept.

Jan Kotaska will give an illustrated presentation about mountain gorillas and other wildlife of Uganda at the Oct. 5 meeting of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society.

Spiritual consultant, Kelly Oswald, author of Buddha Nature: Awaken to Your Life and co-author of Be the Change Cards, will present an intuition workshop at The Oracle at Sechelt.

On Sept. 29 at 11 a.m. mothers and children at sites across Canada, the U.S. and other countries around the world will compete to set the record for the most children breastfeeding at one time.