Dave Crewson and Mario Gomes have created Startup Squamish, a place where entrepreneurs can share ideas and information, and find the support they need to transmute passion into action.

Squamish Off-road Cycling Association (SORCA) is offering riders — specifically those from out of town — the opportunity to donate $15 and receive a trail pass to pay for materials and wages for some local professional trail-builders.

Managed solely by community volunteers, the medical equipment loan program lends patients medical equipment for temporary use.

For the past two years, countless volunteers have worked on creating a new trail at Murrin Lake Park. It's expected to open officially in June.

Kelly’s Eclectibles, a new store in downtown Squamish, hopes to attract customers who want to touch and feel the music they buy.

Brian Self, Meg Fellowes, Richard Cannings, Rick Toochin, Derek Sutton, Len Goldsmith, Jim Wisnia, Heather Baines, Nancy Ricker, Marcia and Grant Danielson, Judy Vetsch, Patrick McNamara, Don Fieldhouse, Bev Hill and Thor Halvorson have given many Sundays to counting birds in Squamish.

The beautiful setting of the Cheakamus Centre (www.cheakamuscentre.ca, formerly NVOS) was originally developed as a ranch by one of the Squamish area’s first settlers, Isaac J. Hayden.

For two days every week, the Sikh temple on Fifth Ave. rings out with the sounds of Punjabi alphabets as children learn the language their parents hope will keep them connected to their culture.

In January 2014, Fran Solar was decorated as a Niche Awards winner — awards recognizing excellence in fine craft — for her ten-pound copper-woven sculpture “Pleated Vessel.”

This is the principle behind Art-Starts in Schools: Infusion. Creating new connections in the brain through arts deepens and expands the learning experience.