In the Community

On Friday, June 26, the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre was packed with a standing-room-only crowd to hear Voices from Israel and Palestine: Compassionate Listening to Conflicting Realities.

Canada World Youth (CWY) is back on the Sunshine Coast looking for host families and volunteer work placements for 18 South African and Canadian participants. Project supervisor and Albertan Kelly Hazlett has been on the Coast the past two weeks.

A multi-platinum producer/writer and musician who has written for MC Hammer and other entertainers will be on the Coast to jam at the Wild Bistro in Gibsons July 16 and promote autism awareness.

In the hundred years of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) perhaps nothing has been as contentious as its environmental history. Almost from day one there were issues with what the business would do to the land, sea and air surrounding the mill.

Cedar Grove Elementary School has rewarded two deserving and creative students with a bursary. Last week, students Jillian Dueck and Raven Gonzales received the Desire to Inspire Creative Curiosity Bursary. On Jan.

The harvest has already begun at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden's demonstration vegetable garden. Last week lettuce, broccoli, zucchini and cabbage were harvested and donated to the Sechelt Food Bank.

The Sunshine Coast Fruit Tree Project is a community-based initiative that works to build community and strengthen food security using local fruit.

With three years and more than 50 performances behind them, this month, the B:C:Clettes (pronounced like the French biciclettes) are cycling 250 km in nine days on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.

It was a full house for the Saturday afternoon, June 13 screening of Squamish Nations: Stories from the Heart - a collaborative film project that documents the history of the Squamish Nation from the perspective of Tsawaysia Spukwus.

Members of the Sunshine Coast Grandmothers & GrandOthers joined others from southwestern B.C. at a rally in Vancouver on Sunday, June 14 in solidarity with African grandmothers who are raising a generation of children orphaned by AIDS.