In the Community

The third annual Happy Cat Haven Halloween benefit dance takes place at the Gibsons Legion Hall Saturday, Oct. 30. Dance to the classic rock sounds of The Ranters.

Gibsons resident, athlete and all-round tough girl Sarah Agnew has spent the last week getting sucker punched, ricocheting off big red bouncy balls and trying to avoid a three-metre plunge into muddy slop.

Organizers of the inaugural open house held on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre are calling it a success. Visitors were treated to displays set up by the various groups that make up the centre.

The newly completed building at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden opens in grand style Sunday with a double celebration, the Trees are Terrific festival in the morning and the official opening ceremony and art show in the afternoon of Oct.

Kate Cardinall suffered with multiple sclerosis (MS) for 20 years until a 40-minute procedure completely cured her and gave her back her life. Now she wants others to benefit from the surgery she received in Poland..

Bill Good's stimulating and lively presentation, Media: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, was enthusiastically received by a near capacity audience at the Chatelech Secondary School Theatre in Sechelt on Saturday, Oct. 2.

Eighteen young Canadian and South African volunteers are hard at work on the Coast, donating 4,000 hours of labour and skills to the community as they learn how to create more just, sustainable communities.

Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives is delighted to invite the community to the launch of Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History next Saturday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m.

President Al Hailey and the members of the Sunshine Coast Lions Club are the first to lend their support to the Imagination Library, an effort that sees books sent to all registered children from birth to age five.

Coast pets facing thin meals as their owners struggle to pay bills and keep food on the table have a new guardian angel: pet food bank creator Bronwen Jorel.