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Editor's note: CORRECTION TO STORYDue to an error in reading the financial disclosure statements for Sechelt Mayor John Henderson, the wrong donation amount was credited to Gina Stockwell. Her donation to the campaign was $170.

The provincial government appointed Dr. Charles Jago to mediate the teacher contract talks this week, with Jago likening the job to a kind of "mission impossible.

Nearly a year after a dog was caught in a leg-hold trap in Sechelt, the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals is imploring council to finalize a bylaw that would ban the use of body-gripping traps in the District.

Campaign financial disclosure statements were recently released by the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).

The campaign organization For A Better Sechelt (FABS) had a budget of $46,201.98 to get their message across during the 2011 municipal election more than all the mayoralty candidates combined spent in Sechelt.

The numbers are in, and Gibsons Mayor Wayne Rowe raised more than $33,200 on his path to defeat incumbent Barry Janyk, who clocked just less than $6,500. Rowe left his rivals in the dust, raising five times more than the incumbent mayor.

Federal workers, the CBC and the penny bore the brunt of a slimmed-down federal budget tabled in Ottawa Thursday afternoon (March 29).

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for March 20 to 27: Overnight on March 20, a vandal smashed a window at a business in the 5500 block of Highway 101. The vandal is believed to have used a piece of broken concrete to break the window.

A new on-line tool, embedded into the Pacific Post Partum Support Society's new website, will help women deal with the sadness and anxiety that can accompany the birth of a new baby.

The call is out for all Sunshine Coast residents to join millions around the world and turn off your lights between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31.