Local News

The Sunshine Coast Natural History Society (SCNHS) presents an evening with Brian Carson tonight (Jan. 6) at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. Carson will be on hand to present a talk on natural resource management on the Mekong River in Laos.

Gibsons council authorized $25,000 for its staff to negotiate the completion of the Upper Gibsons neighbourhood plan with engineering consultants, to cover current and future cost overruns.

The first baby to be born this year on the Coast arrived at 8 p.m. Jan. 1 at St. Mary's Hospital in Sechelt. Mikayla Sydney Totten is the daughter of first-time parents Christie and Dean Totten, weighing nine pounds, 11 ounces at birth.

Incumbent mayor Barry Janyk is thrilled by the prospect of three more years leading Gibsons council. Janyk was returned to office in Saturday's civic election, besting current Coun. Angela Letman 642 to 521 in the race for the mayor's chair.

Traffic was re-routed on Hwy. 101 for about seven hours while police investigated the scene of an accident where 64-year-old Hayden Raymond (Ray) Jenkins of Roberts Creek was killed Saturday afternoon.

Over 700 people packed the Elphinstone Secondary School gym last Friday night to watch this year's Banff Mountain Film Festival. The crowd, ranging in age from toddlers to seniors, was entertained by a slate of eight films as diverse as the audience.

It is time once again for the Sunshine Coast Hospice Society's Lights of Life program. This year will be the 15th annual event. The familiar Christmas trees can be seen at the Sunnycrest Mall in Gibsons and at the Trail Bay Mall in Sechelt.

A visiting group of 10 Indo-nesians and 10 Canadians, who have become local celebrities through their community work with Canada World Youth (CWY), are leaving the Coast on Saturday to spend the second half of their program in Borneo, Indonesia.

On Saturday, Nov. 26, two teams will represent the Sunshine Coast at the third annual First Lego League tournament in North Vancouver.

A lively meeting of Garden Bay Waterworks District (GBWD) and Hotel Lake water users ended Tuesday night with a decision to postpone the vote on whether to merge the two water systems.