Local News

Sechelt Legion members are gazing on a newly-landscaped courtyard this week after local businesses volunteered their time, materials and expertise last Saturday to beautify the area that had been neglected.

Two weeks into a strike at B.C.'s major beer distributor, local supplies of many popular beers are running dry. About 300 workers at Brewers' Distributors Limited (BDL) in New Westminster went on strike May 1, seeking better pay and benefits.

Filming is scheduled to start next week for the movie Desolation Sound, a drama starring Jennifer Beals and Ed Begley, Jr., which is being produced on the Sunshine Coast.

If you've ever gazed at an architecturally stylish cedar home or paddled past a waterfront palace, you might have wished you could knock on the door and take a peek inside. Now is your opportunity, says Patricia Hetherington.

Rumours have finally been verified by Bruce Morris of Trail Bay Development Ltd. who says Shoppers Drug Mart will be moving into Trail Bay Mall in Sechelt in the coming week.

A tiff over funding for the Sechelt Public Library has divided the Sunshine Coast Regional District Board and raised the spectre of a legal battle between the library and the SCRD.

Calling around to the elders of the community to research the history of Roberts Creek Community Hall, I discovered that in the early 1940s, the hall held a dance every Saturday.

Chatelech Secondary School has had a busy year educating 850 students in the midst of major construction. But as Phase 2 of the $8 million project nears completion, the crowding at the school is finally easing up.

Volunteers in Canada, the U.S., Australia, the U.K. and Switzerland will record elders' and veterans' memories during Personal History Awareness Month.

Police seized more than 17 grams of cocaine and a "significant number" of ecstasy tablets during the arrest of a 19-year-old man in Sechelt May 5. According to Sunshine Coast RCMP Const.