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The community is feeling the impact after an early-morning fire tore through the Pender Harbour Hotel and Grasshopper Pub on Monday, Sept. 30, Area A director Frank Mauro said the following day. "It's a big effect," Mauro told Coast Reporter.

Coasters are starting to sign petitions calling for the decriminalization of pot possession, but many more names are needed before the 12-week campaign to amass enough signatures ends on Dec. 5. Sensible B.C.

Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors have asked managers in all departments to effectively freeze their 2014 operating budgets. In a recommendation passed at the Sept.

Telus is extending its fibre-optic network to the Sunshine Coast, the company confirmed this week. "The build is happening.

A kite boarder in distress off Davis Bay beach last Saturday was rescued by two quick-thinking locals while emergency responders waited on shore to help transport him to hospital. The unidentified man was out kite boarding at around 12:30 p.m.

The Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society (SCBGS) has been given two generous donations of rhododendron collections from two well-known horticulturists, and they need help to prepare the grounds to receive them.

At their Oct. 2 council meeting, councillors decided to waive approximately $100,000 in permit fees for the new wastewater treatment plant.

Changes to Burnco Rock Products' proposal for a gravel mine operation at McNab Creek are steps in the right direction, but will not satisfy the concerns of opponents, the spokesman for the Future of Howe Sound Society (FHSS) said Tuesday.

October is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) awareness month, and Sechelt's Gillian Smith hopes Coasters will take some time to learn about the disorder, including who it affects and how it can be treated.

Plans are in the works to evict a nesting colony of sea gulls from the roof of the Gibsons and District Public Library.