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The Community Resource Centre (CRC) is back, the group announced this month. After its gaming grant funding was declined last year, the CRC had to place many of its services on hiatus while it appealed the decision.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD), the District of Sechelt and the Town of Gibsons were all honoured last week for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

At its Feb. 15 regular council meeting, Sechelt council set the golf rates for 2012 and approved minutes coming forward from the newly-established golf course advisory committee.

A new financial literacy program is starting up on the Coast. Money Skills, a free program intended to guide people with challenging financial situations through the world of budgeting, saving, investing and consumerism, begins Feb.

A nearly year-long impasse at the bargaining table between teachers and the province may see an end this month when a fact finder delivers his report on the situation and its possibility for a resolution. On Feb.

Sunshine Coast Tourism Association (SCTA) president Celia Robben is making the rounds with accommodation providers on the Coast this month, hoping to get at least 51 per cent of them to agree to institute a two per cent room tax locally.

A public information meeting Feb. 8 on Stockwell Sand and Gravel's proposal for a concrete processing batch plant brought about concerns over noise and dust and the fear that the project is already a done deal.

Nine new judges are being appointed across the province, the Ministry of the Attorney General announced Feb. 7. The appointments bring the total number of appointments to 23 during the span of two years.

More than 150 people jammed into Cranberry Seniors' Centre on Wednesday, Feb. 8, to hear from Powell River - Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons and voice their concerns over the way the province retests seniors for driver's licences.

The 2011 census results are in and since 2006, the Sunshine Coast's population grew by 3.1 per cent to 28,619 people. This compares to the provincial growth average of seven per cent, as British Columbia's population passed the 4.4 million mark.