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The Iris Griffith Interpretive Centre at Ruby Lake Lagoon opened its doors to the community July 28 after five months of construction.

Sunday, Aug. 14, will be a milestone day for Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast. Starting at 2 p.m., Habitat will hold an official ground breaking ceremony and celebration at the North Road lot in Gibsons.

A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to theft of a Ford Focus during a joy-riding spree.

True to form, when Edna Husby got the word last Friday morning that she is this year's Golden Girl, the friendly Gibsons woman was in the kitchen baking for others.

Residents took to the streets Wednesday afternoon in a peaceful protest march up Mason Road to Pan Pacific Aggregates' gate.

If you make a thousand paper cranes, your wish will come true. Sadako, a 12-year-old Japanese girl, had only one wish - to go on living.

Telus workers were picketing this week in Sechelt and Gibsons after their union rejected the company's new collective agreement, in a dispute both sides expect to see drag on. Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) members began picketing across B.C.

After an intense seven-week building bee, Larry Westlake's dream of having an authentic handliner boat has come true. Westlake said the scheme to build a handliner replica has grown in his head for four years.

The community said "yes" to a pool in Sechelt and arena in Gibsons. Now a community group lead by Gibsons Bill Hubbs is looking for additional funding to make the centres a reality.

"We have been shafted again." That's what members of the Sunshine Coast Ferry Advisory Committee are saying after the recent announcement that Coast residents will be paying from 20 cents to $3 more per round trip between Langdale and Horseshoe Bay.