In the Community

The Sunshine Coast is a fabulous community, a place of warm relationships, interesting characters and caring for each other, not to mention high awareness of issues such as sustainable agriculture and respect for the planet.

Although 22-year-old Jordan McCourt is confined to a wheelchair, suffers from seizures and cerebral palsy and has a hole in his heart, he is working to help those less fortunate. "It makes me happy to help.

A joining of the Botanical Garden Society and Chatelech Secondary School Foods classes has resulted in a multitude of positive experiences for students and the community at large.

Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series of stories about people who were raised on the Sunshine Coast who are making a successful mark in the world of their chosen vocations.

A display of nearly 200 quilts filled the arena at Gibsons and Area Com-munity Centre last weekend in a biennial show hosted by the SC Quilters' Guild.

The Rotary Club of Sechelt is honoured to give this year's Service Above Self Award to Kay Metcalfe.

The Self Realization Meditation Healing Centre in Halfmoon Bay is inviting the community to join them for a Garden Day and Open House this Saturday, July 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Summertime and the reading is easy! Gibsons and District Public Library Summer Reading Club is back. This summer, take reading as your constant companion and portable pal: take a book to the beach, take a book on your commute, take a book to bed.

Canada World Youth (CWY) is currently recruiting families and individuals interested in hosting two young women, one from South Africa and one from Canada, who will be taking part in an international cross-cultural exchange on the Sunshine Coast for

Debbie Amaral is the inaugural recipient of the Frances Fleming Award for inspirational achievement. Amaral, by all accounts an amazing person and educator, was honoured last week by the school board.