In the Community

The Ruby Slipper Fund is celebrating its first anniversary of providing support to the Sunshine Coast Palliative Care Program and the families it serves. Fundraising and donations during their first year totaled more than $25,000.

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories about people who were raised on the Sunshine Coast who are making a successful mark in the world in their chosen vocations.

Have any items tucked away that are collectable, unusual, historical or antique? Want to know more about them, including what they're worth? If so, then bring them down to the 10th annual Antiques Roadshow and Heritage Fair on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Jennifer Copping knew she wanted to be a performer while she was still a student at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt 25 years ago.

On Friday, Feb. 11, the Royal Astronomical Society presents: Spacecraft 101 with RADARSAT engineer and team leader Adrian Payne. Payne will discuss space missions, spacecraft and ground systems design.

Kim John Payne delivered a powerful lecture called Simplicity Parenting on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The lecture, sponsored by Sun Haven Waldorf School, saw 133 people pack into the Seaside Centre.

Sechelt resident Robert Dawson helps give people in Third World countries the gift of sight - and he's looking for like-minded locals to give him a hand.

Don't take any seaweed off the beach between now and the end of March, or you might unintentionally kill thousands of herring waiting to hatch. That's the friendly message of warning from the local Streamkeepers group.

At any given time, almost three million Canadians have serious depression. On any given day, 500,000 Canadians miss work because of mental illness.

In March 2007, Dianne Whelan accompanied seven Canadian Forces and Inuit Rangers in a 2,000 km trip through Canada's far north. They covered ground by snowmobiles from Resolute to the Canadian Forces Station in Alert.