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The Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) has had a profitable year, has just acquired sophisticated new mapping data, and has re-affirmed a commitment to not log the Grey Creek Community Watershed for at least five years.

Twenty-five years after their family was torn apart by the rape and murder of their three-year-old daughter, Tom May and Linda Hamilton are being forced to relive the crime and muster strength to fight as their daughter's killer is facing parole.

When residents of the new subdivision in Upper Gibsons give out their street addresses to friends in the coming years, they will be name-dropping some of the Town's most notable, generous and influential community members.

Sechelt council will ask the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) for a modified safety improvements plan in Davis Bay, which would eliminate the contentious left-hand turn bay at Davis Bay Road, according to a motion passed at commit

Several residents have reported receiving calls from a male purporting to be their "favourite grandson" who is in trouble and requiring a large amount of money for his lawyer.

As part of a province-wide push for Pap Awareness Week (Oct. 24 to 30), three local clinics have been offering drop-in hours for pap testing this week to encourage Sunshine Coast women to be screened for cervical cancer.

Linda Lorraine Howe has been found guilty of attempted murder in the March 2009 shooting of Christenson Village manager Kenn Perrier. Judge Francis Cole delivered the judgement along with six other guilty rulings in B.C.

Fundraising is ramping up on the Coast for MLA Nicholas Simons, and although the next election is more than two years away, that didn't stop a capacity crowd of 70 headlined by Carole James from digging deep for the cause on Oct. 16.

On Oct. 10, a kayak was found washed up in the 13000 block Oyster Bay Road. The owner may claim by providing details such as make, model and colour to police, reference file 10-8069. ?? On Oct.

A broken-hearted man's carving, which honours a son's heroism and a mother's love, has at last come home to the shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation. For 84 years this precious treasure rested across the Salish Sea with the Vancouver Museum.