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The Sunshine Coast RCMP and the Halfmoon Bay Community School are teaming up to present a child predator and on-line safety awareness forum. The presentation will take place on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt.

Story: Const. Bill McKenna has been named the Coast's new youth intervention officer -a position which partners the Sunshine Coast RCMP with School District No. 46 (SD46) in the goal of promoting safe schools.

A new program will provide short-term accommodation for homeless Sunshine Coast youth, so that they can regroup, arrange for welfare and longer-term housing and stabilize their lives.

Fifty years ago, Sechelt resident Peter Langfield was tromping around the Malaysian jungle as a member of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, keeping the peace at the tail end of a 12-year long guerrilla war with communist insurgents.

Facing impending bankruptcy, St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Gibsons is looking for creative ways to survive in the 21st century. Members of St.

The three major federal parties now have candidates in place for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country and are set for an election run.

As the days count down towards Nov.11, up and down the Coast four branches of the Royal Canadian Legion (RCL) are doing what they always do: offering scarlet poppies to passers-by and putting the finishing touches on Remembrance Day ceremony plans.

In the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 4, Sunshine Coast RCMP were called out to a report of a vehicle on fire at the Government Dock in Gibsons. When RCMP members arrived at the scene they found an unoccupied vehicle engulfed in flames.

Ongoing vandalism, especially in the Bonniebrook area, continues to be a major concern for Sunshine Coast RCMP. At the Monday, Nov.

The future of parks and recreation on the Sunshine Coast is coming under the lens in the coming months as the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) has approved a request for proposal (RFP) to begin a parks master plan.