In the Community

The Sunshine Coast welcomed 24 Japanese students and their teachers July 27, when they arrived to a warm welcoming from their host families at Elphinstone Secondary School in Gibsons.

The Gibsons and District Public Library board's search for a new chief librarian has concluded with the appointment of Tracey Therrien.

Community members of all ages are warmly invited to explore and celebrate local biodiversity at the fifth annual Sunshine Coast BioBlitz Aug. 11 and 12.

The Fung Loy Kok/Taoist Tai Chi Society on the Sunshine Coast is holding its fifth annual fundraising yard sale this Saturday at 5068 Chapman Rd. in Davis Bay.

Residents and tourists visiting the Sea Cavalcade events last weekend were treated to the flying acrobatics of the Fraser Blues, led by 76-year-old aviator George Miller.

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.