In the Community

The Sunshine Coast Scouting movement wrapped up a fun and productive year with some well-deserved awards for youth and leaders.

On July 1, some 40 people from the Sunshine Coast began their own Pulling Together canoe adventure.

Roberts Creek entrepreneur Sarah Doherty is seeing her dream become a reality with the launch of SideStix, a special sports crutch she created that is designed to go far.

The Sunshine Coast Fruit Tree Project (SCFTP) is back for its second year and hopes to build on the success of 2009. There were more than 40 fruit tree locations donated and more than 65 volunteer pickers last year.

Reviewed as having "a voice ethereal, strong and pure, destined to soar," 19-year-old Sunshine Coast musician Katherine Rowlands has been passionate about music since early childhood. On Saturday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m.

Editor's note: Chatelech Secondary School Grade 12 graduate Brooke Cooney was chosen as Coast Reporter's entry in this year's British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association student scholarship essay.

Last week the board of directors of the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival reluctantly announced the cancellation of the 2011 festival. Though the 2010 edition, running Aug.

How many holes can they complete? That's the question for golf pros Jim Pringle and Kirk Nederpelt from the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club (SCG&CC) as they hit the links on Wednesday, July 7, in support of the fifth annual PGA British Columbia

Twenty high-school girls from Kyoritsu, Japan are coming to the Coast next month for a study tour, and they need your help. Two male teachers are accompanying the group, who will be in Gibsons from July 23 to Aug. 10.

Many of us would call the water that came gushing out of a well in Ndandini village in Kenya on June 1 a modern miracle, appropriate after some of the hellish details come to light that made that red-letter day happen.