In the Community

Canadian Federation of University Women

The people with the red shirts on the ferry provide information to locals and visitors alike. Did you ever wonder who the Travel Ambassadors were? The Travel Ambassador program operates from Easter to Thanksgiving seven days a week.

Flying southward for winter fun in the sun, we’ve discovered extraordinary and affordable island food. Hawaiian vacations embrace the taste of aloha.

One of the most popular names for girls in Afghanistan is Rabia – after the first century poet, artist and noblewoman, Rabia Balkhi. After she fell in love with a slave, her brother ordered her death and her veins were cut in the bathroom.

A neighbour who lives along Gower Point recently gave my husband and me a tour of her property and where she has experienced flooding she believes to be the result of tree removal on the slopes above her.

Friday, March 6 is both National Oreo Cookie Day and National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day! What a sweet day to take in a dinner with live music followed by Brain Freeze Trivia night at the Roberts Creek Legion! Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m.

Pawsitively Pender Harbour, Saturday, March 7, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of EarthFair Store, will be a celebration of animals, with home-baked goodies for you and yours (cupcakes, pupcakes, cream puffs and more yummy treats).

The Halfmoon Bay Branch of the Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary will hold its next meeting on Monday, March 9 at Coopers Green Hall at 9:45 a.m. New members and guests are always welcome.

Join Rand Rudland at the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society meeting on Friday, March 6 for an illustrated presentation that will take you to the Southern Ocean in the Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties.

Earth continues its travel around the Sun, playing catch up with the outer visible planets – Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. They all appear further to the west of the Sun than in February and are more easily seen in the morning before sunrise.