In the Community

Hi everyone! Wow, what a week it has been! Temperature records have been broken throughout B.C., but it looks like it will be a little cooler next week. Stay cool and hydrated and be sure to keep your four-legged friends indoors with plenty of water.

A wooden fishing vessel and fibreglass boat rafted together ran aground on a reef in Square Bay the morning of June 24.

Our lovely gem of a gallery, Harbour Gallery, is now open every day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come browse the beautiful creations of our local artists. Saturdays, shop till you drop in downtown Madeira! The Bargain Barn is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Gibsons Seniors Society’s Harmony Hall Activity Centre has completed an extensive renovation, thanks to many volunteers, the generous donations of Gibsons Building Supply and the professional installation work of Ironbark Construction.

The Royal Canadian Legion Sechelt Branch 140 was recently gifted a picnic table for its patio enclosure.

I can feel the heat of the scorcher we had Monday, very thankful for the ocean and the lakes that have cooled my body and cleansed my soul this week.

I know the tax season is done, but I haven’t had my taxes done.

A few years ago, I decided to learn more about birds but have to admit to not keeping up my “studies.” It was frustrating trying to spot songbirds that I could hear but not see.

Members of the two Rotary clubs in Sechelt got a real eye opener when they decided to check on the condition of the Sechelt Skate Park recently.

Jane McOuat Farrer, together with her personal doctor, Dr. Joerg Jaschinski, and her friend, Dr. Ron Mundy, honoured her late husband’s memory at a moving, safely distanced meeting at the Sechelt Hospital Foundation offices.