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It takes a community to host a good party. Pictured above are volunteers from the Sunshine Coast Rotary Club, Davis Bay Community Association, and the Interact Club from Chatelech Secondary, who organized a delightful Easter celebration in Whitaker Park on March 30. Dozens of young ones enjoyed hunting for treats, making crafts, face painting, balloon art, hot dogs and drinks, and visits with the Easter Bunny.

‘The Sunshine Coast is a great place to grow and raise a family’: Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons

'We've got wood,' proclaims the new licence plate unveiled in an April 1 news report by Molly Carmody and released on Browton's Team True Blue YouTube channel.  

Corporation communications staffer Skye Tarry-Orr announced the initiative on April 1

‘It’s nice to be out there, to follow my own rules, do my own thing,’ says Joffre Storey

Blood Relations, by Canadian dramatist Sharon Pollock, won the Governor General’s literary award in 1981. The play presents a fictionalized version of Lizzie Borden, who in 1892 was tried and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. 

The Legion will reopen in April at its new home at 5546 Inlet Road (across from the post office). Volunteers and staff have been working countless hours in both locations in preparation for the move.

A faulty alternator was the root of a generator power outage on the Horseshoe Bay-Langdale ferry route Friday evening – an outage that exacerbated delays on the busy Easter long weekend. 

The print edition of the March 29 print edition is delayed because of a truck malfunction at the ferry terminal.

A plan to install a Sea-Can unit to store sodium hypochlorite at the Church Road Well Field water treatment plant has neighbours frustrated