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Camp Sunrise is celebrating 80 years of fun, friendship and fellowship this month at the Christian campground that has hosted thousands of youth, adults and seniors from around B.C. since it opened in 1925.

Be at the front of the line for this year's hottest read. Gibsons and District Public Library announces the launch of its first Coast-wide book club, One Book on the Coast, with Andrew Pyper's The Wildfire Season.

What could 24,000 students, 800 teachers, three continents and 25 years be all about? Music for Young Children (MYC), established in 1980 in Ontario, has arrived on the Coast.

Tess Orlando, the former top health administrator for the Sunshine Coast and Powell River, has won a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. In B.C. Supreme Court July 22, Justice J.D.

With shovels in hand, members of Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast officially broke ground on their first housing project this week.

About 150 people came out to Pan Pacific Aggregates' community open forum Aug. 10 to have questions answered about the proposed mine sites above Porpoise Bay. Sechelt Indian Band elders Theresa Jeffries and Jamie Dixon opened with a prayer.

A 20-year-old woman is free on bail and police are looking for her 29-year-old boyfriend in connection with a block of cocaine seized from a home on Pebble Crescent in Sechelt. According to Const.

Josh Holl, a 21-year-old Sechelt man, is in jail facing nine charges, including robbery, break and enter, disguising his face with the intention of committing a crime and possession of a controlled substance.

An English couple who spent part of their $30 million lottery winnings on a wilderness trip to the Coast for a party of 88 Scouts, leaders and parents are wrapping up their two-week visit on Monday.

The provincial Environmental Appeal Board has stalled the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) acquisition of Hotel Lake water licences totalling over 11 million gallons per year. In its Aug.