In the Community

The ninth annual Children's Festival and Duck Pluck Raffle promises to be a day filled with family fun and will feature one of Canada's beloved children's entertainers, Charlotte Diamond. The festival is set for June 19 in Dougall Park in Gibsons.

Holocaust survivor Dr. Eva Olsson's message to the Roberts Creek audience Monday, May 17, was clear - if a child comes from a compassionate environment and grows up with love then that child will not become a bully.

Beginning this weekend, a tour of the Botanical Garden in Sechelt is offered each Sunday at 2 p.m. It's a great chance to show off the Coast's new garden to visitors.

Arden Currie of Gibsons is taking great strides to aid cancer victims by participating in the Weekend to End Women's Cancers benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation. She will join thousands of other courageous and committed women and men Aug.

Albert Einstein said that a problem could never be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it.

On May 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., YMCA Camp Elphinstone will play host to a full day dedicated to the health and wellness of our community's children - Healthy Kids Day.

The Sunshine Coast Dance Society in collaboration with Vancouver semi-professional dance company, The Source, returns to the Sunshine Coast in Shadows, tomorrow (Saturday) in Sechelt.

A Balkan spring festival and brass band extravaganza is set for Roberts Creek Hall on Saturday night.

Three Chatelech Secondary School students' video about a young employee's angst over whether to risk workplace injury or confront her boss about unsafe working conditions has won WorkSafeBC's 2010 student video contest.

The RCXRM Robotics of Kiel Strang and Ryden Custance made it all the way to the finals at the recent World Robotics Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.