Highlights

Egmont's annual community festival June 1 was a damp, perhaps understated to start due to the rain, but nonetheless joyful affair. The day included a parade, cake walk, music and festivities in the park. 

Also, Uke for Hospice fundraiser raises more than $7,000 for hospice

Sunshine Coast Hospice Society offers services and support to people facing end of life challenges, including palliative care, advance care planning, and grief support for those who have lost a loved one. Hike for Hospice is the organization’s major annual fundraiser, held on May 26 this year at Mission Point Park. Despite the rain, enthusiastic volunteers were smiling. For more, see coasthospice.com.

Pausing ocean-based chinook fisheries in Alaska and B.C. would immediately increase chinook abundance for southern resident killer whales by 25 per cent.

Also, T Corona Borealis, also faint but with a bright future

Animal rights activists Amy Soranno and Nick Schafer face a prison sentence for breaking into a hog farm and filming conditions they say amount to animal cruelty.

Pascal Jean Claude Bouthillette pleaded guilty to manslaughter of Usha Singh, after he and a co-accused committed a home invasion.

Robert Pickton died in hospital Friday after he was assaulted in prison on May 19.

Rise in neurological diseases expected as population ages

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