In the Community

The 2012 version of the Brat Ride (formerly the Brat Race) took place last Sunday with more than 55 participants. Gary Jackson and Lydia Watson from Off the Edge Adventure Sports in Sechelt hosted the fourth annual ride.

The Sechelt Arts Festival, from Oct. 11 to 21, in partnership with the District of Sechelt, is offering a smorgasbord of free family entertainment and art and music workshops for all ages. On Sunday, Oct.

This summer, YMCA Camp Elphinstone campers and staff in session were asked to participate in a video project funded through the YMCA innovation fund.

In an effort to encourage young writers and give them a platform to present their work, the second edition of Coastal Voices was produced this year.

The third annual Culture Days event is coming to Sechelt Sept. 29 to 30. Culture Days is the largest-ever public participation campaign undertaken by the arts and cultural community in this country.

Gibsons' residents Gordon Leslie and Peter Grant joined more than 200 cycling enthusiasts and event volunteers from across B.C. for the BC Lung Association's 28th Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath (Trek) Sept. 8 and 9.

Nancy and Edwin Cahill, the Canadian director's of Mercy and Caring Children's Homes, had some wonderful news that the Kenyan director of the Canadian charity based in Kitale is coming to Canada later this month for six weeks.

Food banks here on the Sunshine Coast and throughout the province are feeding hungry mouths every day. These food banks do not receive government funding and rely solely on the public for donations.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and that means it is also time for the 12th annual Gibsons Fall Fair, Oct. 6 and 7, at Quality Garden and Pet in Gibsons.

Sechelt Elder X wu'p'a'lich, Barb Higgins, is initiating a healing ceremony for Mother Earth at Porpoise Bay Provincial Park at 11 a.m. this Saturday, Sept. 15.