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Pride Month goes virtual on the Sunshine Coast

Pride Month goes virtual on the Sunshine Coast

June will be different this year, but amidst the pandemic uncertainty one thing is staying the same: Pride Month is coming to the Sunshine Coast.
Night Skies For June: Month has an unfortunate pattern

Night Skies For June: Month has an unfortunate pattern

Earth is coming up on the summer solstice, which occurs June 20 at 2:43 p.m. Sechelt time.
Creekers' shout out

Creekers' shout out

Dozens of residents of the south end of Beach Avenue in Roberts Creek gathered May 21 for a 7 p.m. rally in support of essential service workers putting themselves on the line during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Touchless Giving Stations launched

Touchless Giving Stations launched

The Rotary Club of Gibsons has launched a pilot project in Gibsons that will bring a new approach to the club’s fundraising – Touchless Giving Stations.
B.C. Bat Count seeks bat roosts and volunteers

B.C. Bat Count seeks bat roosts and volunteers

It can be difficult to know how to help endangered wildlife such as the little brown bat. One simple way to support bats is to participate in the Annual B.C. Bat Count. The Sunshine Coast Wildlife Project, in coordination with the B.C.
Welcoming Communities: Program to help immigrants, refugees relaunches

Welcoming Communities: Program to help immigrants, refugees relaunches

A program helping new Canadians learn English and integrate into the Sunshine Coast is starting a new chapter as a community partnership, ensuring continued support for immigrants and refugees wanting to call the Coast their home.
Halfmoon Bay: Smuggler Cove and the house wren

Halfmoon Bay: Smuggler Cove and the house wren

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful week. Have you had a chance to check out Smuggler Cove (not Smuggler’s)? If you haven’t, it’s a must; if you have, you have experienced an awesome adventure.
Roberts Creek: Everybody has one

Roberts Creek: Everybody has one

I was looking for my column on the Coast Reporter website and discovered that it is listed as “Opinion” so I wanted to give you a heads up that things may change a bit around here.
Pender Harbour & Egmont: Harbourside Friendships and other comebacks

Pender Harbour & Egmont: Harbourside Friendships and other comebacks

The quiet town of Madeira Park is awakening! Java Docks is open and what a welcome sight to see our unofficial mayor and board of directors gathering at social distances discussing the ways of our world (i.e. Harbour gossip?).
Dad and Me Dance will go on (a cloud)

Dad and Me Dance will go on (a cloud)

With a little ingenuity, Rotary members have found a way for the Dad and Me Dance to go on, virtually.