In the Community

The Sunshine Coast branch of the BC SPCA is inviting the community to an animal-themed day of fun on Saturday, May 25 at its annual open house from 1 to 4 p.m. at the shelter at 4376 Solar Road in Wilson Creek.

FUSE hosted its third, and final Ignite workshop on May 11 at the Gibsons Arts Building, where community membersharvested all the material, stories and ideas planted in the first two workshops for several social enterprises.

Dirt was flying recently, when volunteers from the Elphinstone area along with area E director Lorne Lewis and Sam Adams, from the Sunshine Coast Regional District parks department, were busy beautifying the shoreline at Chaster Park.

George and Charlotte Gibson Day is the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives annual event commemorating the arrival of the Gibson family to West Howe Sound in 1886.

The Sunshine Coast Salmonid Enhancement Society has started work on an alternative energy project at its Chapman Creek hatchery.

What does it mean to be human? Does it mean that we have a divine right to conquer and rule all around us? Or does it mean that we have a responsibility, together as a race, to take care of what we have been given? These were questions I had never re

Musicians, filmmakers, photographers and chefs from across the province are invited to apply to take part in B.C. Day celebrations in the Victoria this August. The Provincial Capital Commission's Celebrate B.C. Day event on Monday, Aug.

Nesting season is upon us and Clint and Irene Davy from Gibsons Wildlife Rehab are appealing to the public to protect area wildlife. "Please do not to cut trees or trim hedges at this time of the year, wait until the fall," said Irene.

Next Friday, May 17, the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club will be the host venue for the second benefit fundraiser for ANCA and the fourth annual International Naturally Autistic People Awards Convention and Festival set for Oct.

Mother's Day is the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden's annual plant sale, Sunday May 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 5941 Mason Rd. in Sechelt.