Highlights

Tens of thousands of people around Vancouver Island watched the last flight of the Hawaii Martin Mars water bomber — long a symbol of firefighting in B.C.

Back in the day, locals might remember when hundreds of outrigger paddlers descended on the Town of Gibsons for the Howe Sound Iron Outrigger races.

Freshwater and tidewater flow through a new exhibition of paintings at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery, which opened with a public reception on Aug. 3 at the gallery’s downtown space.

A concert of art songs and arias well over half a decade in the making will take place in Davis Bay later this month, as a globetrotting professional soprano now living on the Coast raises her voice again after a five-year hiatus.

A pair of local tour guides with history of their own will guide excursions into the past of Howe Sound’s western shore during the month of August, with help from a partnership brokered by the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives.

A familiar face from the Coast’s social service sector has been selected as the B.C. Green Party candidate in the Powell River-Sunshine Coast riding for the Oct. 19 provincial election.

Town of Gibsons has until end of the year to finalize details of the restoration project in order to make BC Ferries budget deadline.

Closing ceremonies on Sunday with broadcast coverage starting at noon Pacific time.

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