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Editor's note: This is part five of Cathie Roy's diary, a seven-part series on the recent Pulling Together canoe voyage designed to bring together First Nations, youth and police forces.

A 33-year-old motorcyclist from Coquitlam died last Thursday after flying off his motorcycle into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on Highway 101 in the south Pender Harbour area, according to Sunshine Coast RCMP.

Longtime Sunshine Coast resident Jean Clarke's donation to the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation (SCCF) is the seed for the first family-directed endowment of the foundation.

Sechelt firefighters stopped a suspicious blaze on Sechelt Elementary School grounds last Sunday. The call came in at 1:01 p.m.

A Squamish pilot suffered only minor bruises from ditching an ultralight airplane into the water west of Thormanby Islands after experiencing engine trouble early Sunday afternoon, according to the Halfmoon Bay Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Changes are in store for Sunshine Coast's cable television operator. Last Friday, John Thomas, president of Coast Cable Communications Ltd. (Sunshine Coast) and Delta Cable Communications Ltd.

A broken BC Hydro pole resulted in more than 1,300 customers in downtown Sechelt and West Sechelt losing power early Wednesday morning as crews worked to fix it.

The mayor of Sechelt and chief of the Sechelt Indian Band met with provincial ministers recently to discuss building a new sewer plant down the hill from the existing near-capacity plant on Dusty Road.

A faint light from a cell phone helped save two Van-couver boaters recently. Wayne Skinner who operates Seatow, the BCAA on the water in Gibsons, got a call on Aug. 2 of two boaters in trouble.

On Saturday, Aug. 19, the Sunshine Coast Astronomy Club hosts its second annual Astronomy Day in the Park in Porpoise Bay Provincial Park. Last year's event attracted over 750 visitors from as far away as Washington and Oregon.