In the Community

This Friday night March 21 at the Legion enjoy dinner and the music by Grant Olsen. If you cannot make that, then how about the 9 p.m. Roots Roundup? It promises to be a swinging evening.

Makers are craftspeople, artists, tinkerers, inventors and hackers. They use their ingenuity and a blend of new and old technologies to create objects that are functional, funky or just beautiful.

The Seagrass Conservation Working Group has once again visited eelgrass transplant sites at Halfmoon Bay and Sechelt Inlet to monitor and add to transplant locations.

Come out to Seedy Saturday to find inspiration, learn from the experts, and purchase locally adapted, open pollinated seeds and seedlings. Spring is a few weeks away, which means that it is time to start planning for our summer gardens.

Sechelt's Brianna Lumb is ready to experience different cultures and help make some positive change through a Canada World Youth (CWY) exchange this summer.

Are you concerned about Canada's shifting directions? Murray Dobbin is, and he uses his skills as an author and journalist to convince Canadians of a growing democratic deficit. Next Saturday, March 22 at 2 p.m.

Tonight, Friday, March 14 the School of Music coffeehouse features Katrina Bishop a favourite talented local singer/songwriter performing songs from her new CD.

At Coopers Green Hall on March 29 at 7:30 p.m. the Welcome Beach Community Association (WBCA) is hosting a burger and beer night with live entertainment from the ever popular "Jack & G" a.k.a. Steve Jack and G Willy.

We have good reasons to celebrate our inclusive sense of community, but we must not flatter ourselves. We isolate and exclude, as well. And that betrays vanity and a lack of social vision.

March it comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb or, so they say. And this pretty much sums up my approach to cleansing too. I'm a little zealous about it this time of year, clearing the cobwebs of winter, before settling gently into spring.