In the Community

First Invitational

The desire to obey God has led a family of six to serve in Papua Indonesia for the next three and a half years. Ben and Amy Eadie will leave for Papua, which is Indonesia's poorest province, on Nov.

Thousands of Coasters dropped, covered and held on at 10:20 a.m. on Oct. 20 as part of the largest earthquake drill in B.C. A total of 3,684 people from the Sunshine Coast signed up for this year's Great B.C.

This Halloween many children will be exposed to a bounty of toffee, suckers, gum, liquorice, chocolate and more.

The BC Cancer Agency is urging women to get screened for cervical cancer by getting a Pap test during Pap Awareness Week, Oct. 23 to 29. There will be three clinics offered on the Sunshine Coast, in Gibsons, Sechelt and Pender Harbour.

Richard Hebda of the Royal British Columbia Museum will speak in the Sparling Pavilion at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden this Saturday morning (Oct. 22) at 11 a.m.

For 40 years Canada World Youth (CWY) has enabled 34,000 youth aged 15 to 29 to participate in international co-operation programs hosted by 11,000 families in more than 67 countries. This week (Oct.

Jordan McCourt has received his first pay cheque from the Sunshine Shack. He worked four hours every week for a month practising his new skills at the now familiar kiosk at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre.

Apples, already picked from local trees, are washed, snitzed and squished into applesauce. Now it's time to get to work. The first light of dawn illuminates Thormanby Island, and a tug heads to the Fraser with yet another load of timber. By 7 a.m.

Are there any safe and acceptable levels of environmental poisons like lead, pesticides, PCBs and the phthalates found in many plastics? According to Simon Fraser University professor and researcher Bruce Lanphear, in the field of children's environm