In the Community

Editor's note: This is the fourth 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.

In difficult economic times, many women try to improve their lives and the lives of their children by returning to school to upgrade their employment prospects.

Sunshine Coast resident Rebecca Weinberger had a taste of success at the recent Vancouver Fashion Week. Weinberger recently graduated from Vancouver's Lasalle College where she studied fashion design.

The Sunshine Coast Conservation Association (SCCA) welcomes nominations for the John Hind-Smith Award. The award, established in 2006, honours this environmentalist.

Birding in Boundary Bay will be the focus of the next meeting of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society (SCNHS). The annual general meeting for the society will take place followed by the presentation by Allan Poynter on Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.

The Sunshine Coast Conservation Association (SCCA) has launched a fundraising raffle offering a locally-made wooden row boat, hand-crafted by Nicol Warn, as first prize.

Charlie Rose is hoping to get a big investment from the Dragons when he shows up riding his bouncing drum set dubbed the Boingy Boingy, but he needs some help to get to the Dragons' Den taping in Toronto May 13.

Keith Wright will be remembered as a man of vision, a pioneer of the upper Gibsons business community, a philanthropist who gave to charitable organizations and a founder of recreational clubs in Gibsons and Roberts Creek.

I'd Play the Game for Free -seems an appropriate title for a documentary on Gibsons' Ryan Dempster produced by Coast TV to be aired next week.

Proach Models, an aerospace model making company in Sechelt, B.C. is once again join with the H. R.