In the Community

It's fitting in this the Olympic year that Lorraine Goddard is the 2012 Gibsons' Golden Girl. She epitomizes what the award stands for.

The birds and bees up at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden will be rocking Wednesday, Aug. 8 as legendary blues musician Jim Byrnes sings the blues amid the green.

Meet Mr. Stinky, a glass sponge - a finger goblet sponge, to be exact. He is becoming quite the celebrity. Three young women from the B.C. chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) came to Sechelt recently to introduce us to Mr.

A stuffed lion that stood atop a rock just off Highway 101 near Norwest Bay Road sparked the imagination of local author and business woman Cathrine Ann recently.

Former Gibsons mayor Barry Janyk was sitting at his desk at home in Lower Gibsons last week with one eye on the computer and the other on the hummingbird feeder hanging two metres away through the window.

A group of 17 people from Crossroads Community Church (together with a group from Ocean-view Community Church in Ladysmith) have just arrived home from Abbots-ford where they worked at the Fraser Valley Gleaners.

Students in the BladeRunners program would like to thank all the hardworking people in the local Sechelt shops for their assistance in helping them gain valuable job training.

Many low-income families and seniors on the Sunshine Coast will receive extra help getting fresh, local food on the table this summer, thanks to a new provincial coupon program announced on July 4 by Health Minister Mike de Jong.

When the Gibsons Heritage Society names the 2012 Golden Girl honouring a senior woman from the area later this month at Sea Cavalcade, she will be part of a fine company of stellar women.

What an honour and privilege! The 2012 Pulling Together journey took almost 40 people from the Sechelt and Gibsons area to the beautiful territory of the Sliammon people near Powell River on the Upper Sunshine Coast recently.