Highlights

Mary Lou Owen, a resident of Sechelt since 2002, donated funds to the Sechelt Hospital Foundation

"Having flown three times, I consider myself blessed beyond any reasonable expectation in life." 

Const. Conrad Erbes privately filed a lawsuit for $35,000 in small claims court last week.

Editor: Mayor Henderson states the Sunshine Coast is blessed with natural water storage, Chapman Lake, and that’s true. Annual average rain on the Coast is 40 inches per year. For nine months a year, we watch rain draining into the ocean.

A poem by Tracey Fitzgerald of Selma Park

Here are your kicks and kisses for the week of March 31! A huge shopping bag full of kisses to the always cheerful fellow Matt at London Drugs! You always seem so happy to see us and just show genuine care in helping everyone you can with a smile.

More than 51,000 registered, psychiatric and licensed practical nurses in British Columbia have reached a tentative contract with the provincial government.

British Columbians now have access to free prescription contraceptives. As of April 1, PharmaCare will pay for many different types of birth control for any B.C. resident, making British Columbia the first province in Canada to cover these costs.

April begins with Jupiter disappearing behind the Sun on its way to superior conjunction (directly behind the Sun on its far side) on April 11.

In the ocean, mangrove forests were found to have the most biomass.