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George & Charlotte Gibson Day – 126th Anniversary
So why is Gibsons called ‘Gibsons’ when George and Charlotte were ‘Gibson’? These and other thorny questions continue to puzzle me when I ponder the early non-aboriginal days of the Sunshine Coast. (Have we finally learned not to call white folks the first settlers? I hope so.) Given the 126 years of history, dating back [...]
Magnus Manson takes SC Mountain Bike Film Competition win!
13 year old Magnus Manson has been declared the winner of the Sunshine Coast Mountain Bike Film Competition after intense online voting and the final vote cast by extreme freeride photographer Bjorn Enga. Magnus has won $1000 of bike/camera gear, and will have his film shown on Sunshine TV Network screens in Vancouver, Sunshine Coast, [...]
Sechelt Outdoor Market Opens This Weekend
Terry Barker’s beautiful drawing of the Sechelt market look for his booth and buy his books! If you’re like me, the start of the Sunshine Coast outdoor markets spring season is outright twitterpating (watch Bambi, if you don’t know what that means… the spring-est movie ever). Fresh produce from local farms and gardens, homemade baking, [...]
Mt. Elphinstone Forest Fundraiser hits the Hall April 14
April 14 is a Benefit Concert to Raise Awareness of Mt Elphinstone’s Forests, showcasing hundreds of photographs, with live music to be held Saturday, April 14, 7:30 pm at Roberts Creek Community Hall.
35th Annual April Fools Run – these people are CRAZY
For full race results, please visit AprilFoolsRun.com Okay, so I’m not a runner. I’ll admit I have thought of it from time to time, but then common sense takes hold again and years later, I remain a distant admirer of distance runners. Gaspingly distant. One of my colleagues in web design on the Sunshine Coast, [...]
Peggy Collins is One Wild Photographer
I first met Peggy Collins at the Sechelt Farmer’s Market, in its previous location at the Ravens Cry Theatre. She had a table up towards the high end, covered with photo cards from one end to the other that were a hot spot of interest among the booths. If you have ever seen Peggy’s iconic [...]
Tapas & Wine Bar Open at Chasters
Chasters Restaurant at the Bonniebrook Lodge Oceanfront Inn opens its new Wine & Tapas Bar March 15 and is offering a great special until March 30th – read the full post
WinterFest tomorrow at the Ridge
Woo-hoo… it’s here! WinterFest on Dakota Ridge, beginning at 10am March 10, 2012. The snow has been wonderful this season, with a base of 195 cm and it is snowing lightly as of noon Friday (today). Schedule: available on Alpha web site Highlights include product demos and tryouts, 5 & 10km ski races, introductions to [...]
Going to the dogs at Bluff Hollow B&B
Did you know there was a place on the Sunshine Coast where your dogs can take you for a holiday? Bluff Hollow Bed & Breakfast in Garden Bay is a truly dog-friendly getaway: the entire property, cottage, and main house are all off-leash zones, with amenities every discerning dog will sniff out. They can swim [...]
Gigi Butterfly’s photo-a-day blog Halfmoon Bay
One of the great things about camera technology and software is that it puts the power of stunning imagery into the hands of people who may not be professional photographers but make up for it by regularly taking pictures and often of a certain type… Gigi Butterfly, an artist from Halfmoon Bay, very consistently, posts [...]
Kimiko Hawkes: keeping the SC Museum in our future
Every time I get an email, Facebook message, or calendar event posting request, I am reminded of how lucky the Sunshine Coast is to have attracted – and retained for almost 4 years now – Kimiko Hawkes as the Manager & Curator. Kimiko seems to have boundless energy, and a contagious enthusiasm for history, culture [...]
Cooking with Oscar: Italian Winter Feast
This is when you know you don’t have ‘it’ with cooking. How can nugget potatoes, yam, garlic, carrot and simple herbs combine together so elegantly in one dish and create something so delicious? Students taking online college classes for cooking would know what I mean. Oscar says in this case, it’s all about the ‘simple [...]
An idiot in the woods
There’s something magical about getting lost in the woods. In an era of gps, constant cell access, and reductive subdivision mentality in Canadian civic planning, it’s getting increasingly harder to even get lost close to home. Carless for a day, I decided to walk home and tried a new trail I hadn’t even noticed on [...]
View from top of the hill trail at the western end of Trail Bay Estates in Sechelt.
View from top of the hill trail at the western end of Trail Bay Estates in Sechelt.
Seasonal Delights on the Sunshine Coast
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell SNOW>>> Yes, we’re still waiting for the *real snow* of winter to arrive! But fear not, lovers of the stuff that gets down the back of your neck & the best face wash in the Western hemisphere… only 10-45 minutes away (depends on departure point) is tons of fresh, luscious snow [...]
