http://www.coastreporter.net Sechelt BC News, Sechelt BC Events, Sechelt BC Directories. http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239993/13th-mandala-a-prayer-for-the-ocean Under a welcoming July sun and next to a calm, shimmering strait, community members, artists and travellers from around the world have been turning out to leave their mark on the 13th Roberts Creek community mandala. Brent Richter/Staff Writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239993/13th-mandala-a-prayer-for-the-ocean http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239994/coaster-joins-super-team-for-fundraiser Editor's note: Gibsons resident and volunteer firefighter James Ingram is actively fundraising and raising awareness for the Whistler Granfondo bicycle race on Sept. 11 in support of the B.C. Lung Association. He has written the following to explain... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239994/coaster-joins-super-team-for-fundraiser http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239995/young-people-seek-host-families From Aug. 23 to Nov. 15, the Sunshine Coast will be hosting a group of 18 Canada World Youth (CWY) volunteers from South Africa and Canada. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239995/young-people-seek-host-families http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239992/new-training-program-for-pender Pender Harbour finally has the Sprockids mountain bike training program.  Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100723/SECHELT0604/307239992/new-training-program-for-pender http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100717/SECHELT0604/307179998/coast-rallies-for-kenyan-ambulance-project A group of Coast medical professionals has launched fundraising efforts to buy an ambulance for a rural community in Kenya. Jenny Wagler/Staff Writer Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100717/SECHELT0604/307179998/coast-rallies-for-kenyan-ambulance-project http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100717/SECHELT0604/307179997/japanese-students-to-learn-english-canadian-culture Twenty teenaged girls from Japan will be arriving next Friday (July 23) for two weeks of English classes and Canadian culture. Jenny Wagler/Staff Writer Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100717/SECHELT0604/307179997/japanese-students-to-learn-english-canadian-culture http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100716/SECHELT0604/307169993/entrepreneur-living-out-her-dream Roberts Creek entrepreneur Sarah Doherty is seeing her dream become a reality with the launch of SideStix, a special sports crutch she created that is designed to go far.'That tagline ‘designed to go far' not only refers to the quality of the Christine Wood/Contributing Writer Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100716/SECHELT0604/307169993/entrepreneur-living-out-her-dream http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100716/SECHELT0604/307169994/scouts-wrap-up-a-year-of-adventure The Sunshine Coast Scouting movement wrapped up a fun and productive year with some well-deserved awards for youth and leaders. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100716/SECHELT0604/307169994/scouts-wrap-up-a-year-of-adventure http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100716/SECHELT0604/307169995/coasters-pull-together On July 1, some 40 people from the Sunshine Coast began their own Pulling Together canoe adventure. Ed Hill/Contributing Writer Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100716/SECHELT0604/307169995/coasters-pull-together http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100709/SECHELT0604/307099996/today-s-youth-are-tomorrow-s-future Editor's note: Chatelech Secondary School Grade 12 graduate Brooke Cooney was chosen as Coast Reporter's entry in this year's British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association student scholarship essay. Students were asked to submit their... Brooke Cooney/Contributing Writer Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100709/SECHELT0604/307099996/today-s-youth-are-tomorrow-s-future http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100709/SECHELT0604/307099994/coast-singer-raising-funds-for-expansion Reviewed as having 'a voice ethereal, strong and pure, destined to soar,' 19-year-old Sunshine Coast musician Katherine Rowlands has been passionate about music since early childhood. Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100709/SECHELT0604/307099994/coast-singer-raising-funds-for-expansion http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100709/SECHELT0604/307099995/project-ripens-in-second-year The Sunshine Coast Fruit Tree Project (SCFTP) is back for its second year and hopes to build on the success of 2009.There were more than 40 fruit tree locations donated and more than 65 volunteer pickers last year. This combined community effort Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100709/SECHELT0604/307099995/project-ripens-in-second-year http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029993/local-man-s-determination-delivers-a-well Many of us would call the water that came gushing out of a well in Ndandini village in Kenya on June 1 a modern miracle, appropriate after some of the hellish details come to light that made that red-letter day happen.In September 2007, Sunshine Cathie Roy/Associate Publisher Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029993/local-man-s-determination-delivers-a-well http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029994/urgent-need-for-host-families Twenty high-school girls from Kyoritsu, Japan are coming to the Coast next month for a study tour, and they need your help.Two male teachers are accompanying the group, who will be in Gibsons from July 23 to Aug. 10. Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029994/urgent-need-for-host-families http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029995/golf-pros-hit-the-links-for-als How many holes can they complete? That's the question for golf pros Jim Pringle and Kirk Nederpelt from the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club (SCG%26CC) as they hit the links on Wednesday, July 7, in support of the fifth annual PGA British Columbia... Ian Jacques/Editor Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029995/golf-pros-hit-the-links-for-als http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029996/lack-of-volunteers-forces-cancellation-in-2011 Last week the board of directors of the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival reluctantly announced the cancellation of the 2011 festival. Though the 2010 edition, running Aug. 19 to 21, will go ahead as planned, directors were suffering from a lack... Jan DeGrass/Contributing Writer Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100702/SECHELT0604/307029996/lack-of-volunteers-forces-cancellation-in-2011 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259995/elders-gift-school-with-sh-sh-lh-name Children, parents and staff of École du Pacifique and École Secondaire Chatelech (francophone) were welcomed by elders, artists and other representatives of the shíshálh First Nation (Sechelt First Nation) in the longhouse Monday, June 14, as part... Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259995/elders-gift-school-with-sh-sh-lh-name http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259996/dragons-abreast-show-their-spirit They laughed, cried, danced, hugged and paddled like winners. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259996/dragons-abreast-show-their-spirit http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259993/new-seniors-garden-takes-shape Seniors and their families will be pleased to have a new facility for gardening on the Coast. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259993/new-seniors-garden-takes-shape http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259994/tour-six-gorgeous-gardens June is high season for beautiful gardens, and this Saturday (June 26) will be an excellent day to visit six of the Coast's most exquisite ones. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100625/SECHELT0604/306259994/tour-six-gorgeous-gardens http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100618/SECHELT0604/306189996/bioblitz-offers-day-of-family-fun It was a day of sunshine, fun and games and celebrating the amazing biodiversity of our beautiful Coast as more than 200 people gathered at the Iris Griffith Centre in the Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve on Saturday, June 12, to enjoy a Family Fun Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100618/SECHELT0604/306189996/bioblitz-offers-day-of-family-fun http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100618/SECHELT0604/306189995/reaching-her-fundraising-goals A successful fundraiser at the Roberts Creek Hall has brought 16-year-old Myah Wallace that much closer to her dream of trekking up Machu Picchu this fall. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100618/SECHELT0604/306189995/reaching-her-fundraising-goals http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100618/SECHELT0604/306189994/get-connected-with-fish Forage fish are super-abundant schooling fishes such as herring, anchovy, sand lance, surf smelt, sardine, capelin and eulachon. These small fish are 'forage' or 'prey' for hundreds of species from birds, marine mammals and fish. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100618/SECHELT0604/306189994/get-connected-with-fish http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100611/SECHELT0604/306119996/womens-voices-womens-history As the saying goes, it takes a community to raise a child. In the case of the recently released Women of Pender Harbour ' Their Voices, Their History, it has taken the support of many people in the Pender area to nurture the growth of this... Jan DeGrass/Contributing Writer Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100611/SECHELT0604/306119996/womens-voices-womens-history http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100611/SECHELT0604/306119994/sunshine-coast-wins-major-award The BC SPCA's 2010 Branch of the Year Award was presented to the Sunshine Coast Branch at a special ceremony in Vancouver Saturday, May 29.'It's become one of our biggest success stories,' said Bob Busch, the non-profit society's general manager of Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100611/SECHELT0604/306119994/sunshine-coast-wins-major-award http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100611/SECHELT0604/306119995/estate-of-avid-environmentalist-will-benefit-coast Iris Griffiths Interpretive Centre and the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation are two local organizations benefitting from Dr. Lois Kennedy's lifetime love of the outdoors. Each entity, along with three other charities in the Lower Mainland, will Cathie Roy/Associate Publisher Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100611/SECHELT0604/306119995/estate-of-avid-environmentalist-will-benefit-coast http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100604/SECHELT0604/306049995/gibsons-gold-strikes-pay-dirt Have you had a good laugh lately? If the answer is no you should scoot on down to Gibsons United Church tonight, (Friday), tomorrow evening or the Sunday matinee for the final showings of Gibsons Gold. Cathie Roy/Associate Publisher Fri, 4 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100604/SECHELT0604/306049995/gibsons-gold-strikes-pay-dirt http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100604/SECHELT0604/306049996/august-festival-cancelled Citing tough economic conditions, the organizers of the Sunshine Coast Wooden Boat Festival have pulled the plug on the August event. Ian Jacques/Editor Fri, 4 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100604/SECHELT0604/306049996/august-festival-cancelled http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100604/SECHELT0604/306049994/have-you-seen-turtles Community members are being asked to help ensure the survival of the spectacular western painted turtles by reporting their turtle sightings. The Sunshine Coast is home to one of the largest remaining populations of this federally endangered species. Fri, 4 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100604/SECHELT0604/306049994/have-you-seen-turtles http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100528/SECHELT0604/305289989/charlotte-diamond-to-perform-at-children-s-festival 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. Fri, 28 May 2010 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20100528/SECHELT0604/305289989/charlotte-diamond-to-perform-at-children-s-festival