In the Community

This January, the Sunshine Coast Grandmothers and Grand Others group passed the $100,000 mark in funds raised to help grandmothers caring for their grandchildren, orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Last Sunday, April 13, Girl Guides from the Elphinstone District challenged the Roberts Creek Cub Scouts to a time honoured Scouting tradition the Kub Kar Rally.

The annual Easter egg hunt is set for this Sunday, April 20 at 2 p.m. at Connor Park. Halfmoon Bay Elementary School, who is helping to organize the event, welcomes families with children up to Grade 7.

The Pender Harbour Legion will be open today, Friday, April 18 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., so come on down for some good food, beverages and good fun.

Don't miss West Howe Sound painter Marleen Vermuelen's show, My Conversation with Nature, which runs until April 28 at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery.

Tonight, Friday, April 18, the kitchen at the Roberts Creek Legion opens from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. You are invited to come and dine, enjoy live music from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Few stigmas or social rejections are so utter - so sheer - as mental illness. I say "few" purposefully, because there are other bigotries, just as potent, just as unkind. One of these is homosexuality.

Canada's colourful past is within reach when Nelson author Anne DeGrace reads from her fourth novel, Flying with Amelia, April 11 in Sechelt at the Rockwood Lodge at 1 p.m. and at the Gibsons and District Public Library on April 12 at 1 p.m.

Spring is time to get out into nature, and the Botanical Garden has several informal events planned this month for birders, photographers and families. This Sunday, April 13, at 11 a.m.

Judy Lynne is keeping her son's memory alive - and helping others - through song and a fundraising legacy. Lynne's son Neil Falkner died on April 12, 2002, in the Canadian Rockies, the result of a back country skiing accident in whiteout conditions.