In the Community

The Sunshine Coast Volunteer Centre is celebrating the Coast's exceptional volunteers by co-ordinating the 2012 Celebration of Excellence. This high-profile event is held every two years and is meant to become a Sunshine Coast tradition.

Bloom where you're planted. Bring your plants and swap them with other passionate gardeners. Join the master gardeners' annual clinic at the Gibsons and District Public library on Easter weekend, Saturday, April 7 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

For as long as she's been a lawyer, Alison Sawyer has been an advocate for justice for all people regardless of their economic standing or understanding of legal matters.

Learn to Sail teaches boating skills, safety, teamwork, and healthy enjoyment to about 100 youth aged eight to 16 each year in our regional community.

It's a tradition really, a tradition that's happened for years now.

Pender Harbour will once again celebrate the coming of spring with the April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge, now in its 11th year. On April 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Seagrass Conservation Working Group and volunteers from the Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish took on a project recently to do some test plot plantings of eelgrass.

Last year I had the privilege of meeting and working with Dr. Jonn Matsen. Matsen is a highly respected naturopathic doctor on the North Shore, whose work inside the office brings forth miracles of all sorts.

Depression is one of the most common mental health problems, and many people suffer from recurring episodes of this disorder.

For more than 15 years, Gibsons Elementary School has been offering a free sandwich program for children who do not have enough food for lunch. The program has in the past provided sandwiches for children three days a week.