In the Community

Friends and family of Pearl MacKenzie and YMCA Camp Elphinstone gathered on Sept. 17 to celebrate the camp's newly named recreation centre, MacKenzie Hall.

It is a crisp, clear Sep-tember morning and I am riding my bike on one of my favourite trails in West Sechelt: Parbac. The freshly fallen leaves crackle under my tires as I twist and turn through beautiful single-track.

Community members affected by mental illness, their families, advocates and academics came together at a conference in Sechelt last Saturday to share experiences and learn from each other.

Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver is looking for 25 people in the Sunshine Coast area to volunteer one hour each week on school grounds with a boy or girl.

DOXA, a documentary film society that presents independent and innovative documentaries, is heading out of its usual Vancouver base for the first everDOXA Festival on the Sunshine Coast, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

Sixteen young women from Canada and South Africa are halfway to completing their three-month stay as Youth Leaders in Action.

At 80, Sechelt Indian Band Elder Theresa Jeffries (Sxixaxay, her Sechelt name) is a very important part of the cultural and educational work of the Band, which makes her a perfect choice for speaker at this year's Clifford Smith Memorial Lecture on S

More than $3,000 was raised at the Aug. 28 fundraiser for the Thomas Bennett memorial scholarship, bringing the total fund to more than $12,000.

Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden is offering a two-day photography workshop called Cameras in the Garden. On Sunday, Sept. 25, starting at 9 a.m. and Wednesday Sept. 28, at 7 p.m., bring your camera to the gardens and learn how to take better photos.

Every year thousands of divers and non-divers come together with one common goal: to clean up the world's oceans and waterways.