In the Community

As Halloween approaches and bat decorations go up, bat enthusiasts around B.C. are celebrating and supporting our real bats by participating in International Bat Week (Oct. 24 to 31).

October is Snow Goose Month on the Sunshine Coast with thousands of birds flying over our area in large, noisy, V-shaped skeins containing hundreds of birds.

‘Be positive and drink plenty of just plain water’

If you haven’t entered yet, it’s not too late. If you haven’t planted yet, I would say it most definitely is. It’s the First Annual Pumpkin Growing Contest.

Every now and then, I like to step away from mental health as it pertains to individuals and look at the well being of the community as a whole. This means straying into the social at the expense of the medical/psychological.

Madeira Market’s “Thanksgiving Christmas” was blessed with happy shoppers, visitors, friends and the best vendors including the famous local artist Ken Walters.

It looks like there will be a good lineup for the Art Crawl next weekend. With provincial COVID guidelines in place, we’ll have lots of artists to visit virtually and also physically.

Hi everyone! Hope you all had an awesome week and a wonderful Thanksgiving. It’s typical fall weather now so hopefully you can stay dry while exploring our beautiful outdoors.

If you have not yet visited the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden this season, you have a lot to take in. During the past year, three new projects were completed: the new entrance, the Emily Lasuta Learning Centre, and the Mountainside Habitat.

A new report commissioned by community foundations in Whistler, Squamish, West Vancouver, Bowen Island, and on the Sunshine Coast “illustrates how our community lags behind in several key indicators of vitality,” the Sunshine Coast Community Foundati