In the Community

Last Saturday's botanical plant sale, hosted by the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society was different - for the first time it was held on the site of the proposed botanical garden on Mason Road, and it was a wild success.

"Why don't you eat something," yelled a guy in a car speeding past Rose and Tani Schwarz as they made their way to the hospital in Calgary. Rose would love to eat.

Accessing learning centres on the Sunshine Coast just got a little easier, thanks to a partnership between Community Futures Sunshine Coast and Capilano University.

A community leadership conference geared towards non-profit groups, business owners and community leaders is set for later this month in Gibsons. Thursday, May 28, from 1 to 5:30 p.m.

The Girl Guides held their Flying Up ceremony on the grounds at Chaster House during a sunny break in otherwise stormy weather Monday.

Following a challenge to Anglicans in 2006, environmental justice has arrived on the Sunshine Coast. St. Hilda's Anglican Church has the auspicious honour of being the first accredited green church in the Diocese of New Westminster.

Join Sunshine Coast author, Tony Greenfield on May 13 at the Gibsons and District Public Library for a slide show presentation and launch of his new book, Waterfalls of British Columbia.

The BC Grandmothers Campaign, made up of over 50 grandmothers groups, is the collective recipient of this year's Rosemary Brown award. This award is a memorial to the life and work of the late Hon.

You have heard it before, "all things are connected." Can you connect beach sand grains to the food chain of Pacific salmon, blue herons or killer whales? These species are some of the hundreds of predators on the "forage fishes" of the sea.

Jancis Andrews does not mince words when she's talking about the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). She deplores the constant foot-dragging of the B.C.