Local News

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for July 23 to 30: On July 23, police located a male sleeping in his vehicle parked in the middle of Highway 101 near Norwest Bay Road in Sechelt.

On July 30 at approximately 6:40 a.m., Sunshine Coast RCMP attended the 5700 block of Genni's Way in Sechelt for multiple reports of mischief that occurred sometime overnight.

The provincial board of the BC Conservative Party has set the weekend of April 11, 2014 as the date for a leadership convention to replace John Cummins. Cummins tendered his resignation to the board last week.

Soon after the Sea Cavalcade fireworks subsided Sunday night, a vehicle was set ablaze just north of Armours Beach in the 700 block of Marine Drive in Gibsons.

Save for changes to council's expenses and remunerations, the District of Sechelt's draft 2012 annual report should stay the same until council adopts it in early August.

Developer David Sangara said the trees he cut down on the lower half of his property along Highway 101 in Sechelt were smaller than 60 centimetres wide and therefore allowed to go, although an arbourist's report to that effect was never submitted to

Gibsons council received a briefing report on the George Hotel application at its July 23 committee of the whole meeting.

Plans are afoot to extend the Ignite program for three years and develop it into a self-sustaining incubator for social entrepreneurs on the Sunshine Coast.

The District of Sechelt is focused on attracting new business to the municipality in 2013, so council is setting up Sechelt Innovations Ltd. (SIL) to try to make that happen.

Two Sunshine Coast environmental groups want B.C. Timber Sales (BCTS) to scrap plans to auction 68 hectares of old-growth forest in Dakota Bowl on Mount Elphinstone.