In the Community

The second annual Sunshine Coast Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Contest is coming March 10. This is a great introduction to the engineering profession with some real hands-on experience.

Recently, students in the Bladerunners youth employment program were sent out to quietly observe 25 local businesses.

It was totally groovy to be a student at Langdale Elementary School last month as the students and staff celebrated the '60s in honour of the school's 50th birthday.

Whenever a hummingbird visits your garden - darting, swooping, pausing mid-flight to assess a bloom - it stops you in your tracks. Learn how to attract these fancy fliers on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 3:30 p.m. at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

Les Petits du Pacifique is the first licensed registered non-profit francophone child care centre located on the Sunshine Coast. It is located at École du Pacifique in Sechelt and operates twice a week at full capacity.

The Salvation Army held its second annual Christmas kettle volunteer appreciation luncheon on Sunday, Jan. 29, in Gibsons.

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) is once again inviting youth aged 16 to 19 from across the country to express their creative side through the visual arts and to submit their artworks.

One of the province's most highly regarded experts on West Coast gardening is coming to the Sunshine Coast next week.

"Welcome to Canada," said the Canadian government officials to one of the most well known of Coast performers, Jean Pierre Makosso, when they informed him that he had been granted residency status in this country.

At the end of this month Sechelt's Mary Kenny will remember her son by awarding two deserving chemical and biological engineering students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with $500 each.