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Chapman Creek, the Sunshine Coast's largest natural supplier of drinking water, is changing as a result of climate change, according to UBC environmental researcher Mathieu Beaulieu.

Some small business owners in Sechelt's newly expanded business improvement area are crying foul and threatening to leave Sechelt over the $525 parcel tax being collected by the Sechelt Downtown Business Association.

Taxes in the District of Sechelt will go up 2.5 per cent this year, but average homeowners could actually pay 4.96 per cent less on their tax bill. The unusual outcome is the result of a $200 increase in the homeowner grant this year.

After almost two years of extensive work, the solid waste management plan (SWMP) is nearly set to go out for public review and comment.

Editor's note: Coast Reporter, along with sister papers Powell River Peak, Squamish Chief and Whistler Question, will be asking the candidates a series of questions during the campaign. The candidates have been asked to respond in 150 words or less.

Two men at the helm of the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) have been given their walking papers this month. John Henderson, chair of Sechelt Community Projects Inc.

School District No. 46 (SD46) will stay with seven trustees, but the grouping of areas they are elected from will change slightly.

Some Sechelt residents want to see a complete wastewater treatment plant purchased for the District of Sechelt, rather than a biosolids handling facility, which would buy the District more time, but not solve the problem.

Halfmoon Bay's Bruce Gordon is currently cycling around the world in an attempt to beat the Guinness World Record for fastest solo global circumnavigation by bicycle.

The federal election ballot for the riding of West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country was confirmed Wednesday morning - and it's much larger than first thought.