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Sharing generations of family medicine: The Paetkaus

Sharing generations of family medicine: The Paetkaus

Walking past the helicopter pad and newly renovated Emergency Department at Sechelt | shíshálh Hospital, Dr. Eric Paetkau recalls his time working at the hospital when it was in Garden Bay.
Kisses and Kicks: Kisses to ambulance attendants, kicks for excessive high beams

Kisses and Kicks: Kisses to ambulance attendants, kicks for excessive high beams

Here are the good deeds (and not so good deeds) that happened in our Coast community this week!
Opinion: From one Sunshine Coast Community Action Team to the next

Opinion: From one Sunshine Coast Community Action Team to the next

CATs, initiated in 2018, are a partnership between the province and Community Action Initiative (CAI), and fund CATs in communities hardest hit by the overdose crisis.
B.C. man convicted of illegal sea cucumber fishing

B.C. man convicted of illegal sea cucumber fishing

Pacific sea cucumbers are highly prized in China and Hong Kong for their nutritional value and medicinal uses.
Letters: Is some nautical animus timing ferry breakdowns?

Letters: Is some nautical animus timing ferry breakdowns?

Gumboot Nation: Ready to ride the lightning?

Gumboot Nation: Ready to ride the lightning?

A new Creek columnist bids hello
Halfmoon Happenings: Plunging into the new year

Halfmoon Happenings: Plunging into the new year

It was the year of the cold plunge on the Coast. Scrolling social media, everyone and their dogs all the way up and down the Coast were setting the tone for the new year by taking the plunge.
Pender Harbour-Egmont highlights: Celtic Harp kicks off year for PHMS concerts

Pender Harbour-Egmont highlights: Celtic Harp kicks off year for PHMS concerts

And, Women’s Connection hosts New Year’s Ceilidh
Art Beat: Memories alight on New Year

Art Beat: Memories alight on New Year

Also, an upcoming art show at the Roberts Creek Legion will pay tribute to a life cut short by the opioid and fentanyl crisis in B.C. 
Five years after PS752 tragedy, families seek justice and honour lost loved ones

Five years after PS752 tragedy, families seek justice and honour lost loved ones

Family and friends gather in Vancouver to call for accountability and remember victims killed when an airliner was shot down shortly after taking off in Tehran, Iran on Jan. 8, 2020