In the Community

Last Sunday, May 26, a Founders' Tree wall sculpture was unveiled, inscribed with more than 100 names of the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden's founders.

The first concert of the Do Re TEA series, featuring Golden Echo was a resounding success.

Gibsons resident and community volunteer Donna McMahon has won the British Columbia Trustees Association Super Trustee Award.

World No Tobacco Day is May 31st. You probably didn't know that. But now that you do, take a moment to consider why ridding ourselves of tobacco misuse is an important quality of life issue for everyone here on the Coast.

Along one of the two main dirt roads on Gambier Island, outside a studio flooded with early May sunshine, 12 custom built crates weighing several tons were being prepared for pick up by Gordie Steele.

Do you love animals and want to help them? The Self Realization Meditation Healing Centre in Halfmoon Bay is offering their popular animal healing course this weekend May 25 and 26.

Best-selling author, Alissa York, reads at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre next Friday, May 31, at 9 p.m. York's reading concludes the S.C. Arts Council's spring reading series. York's spoken and written words command attention.

Sunshine Toastmasters is inviting the community to its epic storytelling event on Monday night in Sechelt. On May 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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.