In the Community

The inaugural Moustache Mountain Hiking Race was held on Sunday, Nov. 24. An official Movember move event, participants moustachioed or not, male and female raced from Soames Beach to the top of Soames Hill.

While you are out shopping around the Sunshine Coast, you may notice some new cans accenting the cash registers.

Pender Harbour's Frank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer B.C. truck driver in 1972 when he was nearly 60.

Back by popular demand, the Porpoise Bay Christmas carol cruise is ready set to sail again on Saturday, Dec. 14. The boats will start their procession from the government dock in Porpoise Bay at 6 p.m. sharp.

Locally managed and family-owned event company Amarose Events promises to shake up the shopping experience here on the Sunshine Coast.

Changes in communication and behaviour are very common in people living with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.

Teresa Fournier, owner of Trail Bay Source For Sports, is this year's winner of the prestigious Norm Bodle Memorial Award.

The Dec. 6 meeting of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society features an illustrated presentation by Ron Bennie, who will describe an extended family bicycle trip, through some of the highest mountain passes in the world, from Lhasa to Katmandu.

KidSport launched its national on-line fundraising campaign last week called Give the Gift of Sport, to help all kids get in the game. The campaign runs from Nov. 20 to Jan.

Imagine you're a young woman in one the biggest, poorest and most dangerous slums in the world, you were married just after you turned 11, you have never been to school, and now you are a mother whose children face the same grim future.