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About 500 people came out to show their respects at Pte. Robert Costall's memorial on Thursday at the Christian Life Assembly (CLA) in Gibsons. Mourners filled the CLA gymnasium and the front lobby, spilling out onto the sidewalk.

On the evening of March 26, the Anglican Parish of St. Aidan and St. Bartholomew in Gibsons gathered to say goodbye to Rev. Gary and Joy Hamblin.

No sign of missing 80-year-old Sechelt woman Rhody Lake has ever been found. Her family is asking the community to help bring closure to the case.

The six-bed psychiatric ward at St. Mary's Hospital is still closed while interviews for new nurses at the unit are underway this week. "We need to fill three positions.

The fundraising drive for the new recreation facilities on the Coast got a major financial kickstart Monday. The Sunshine Coast Credit Union presented the Gibsons Area Community Centre Society (GACCS) with a cheque for $100,000.

The date for the decision in the Pender Harbour May Day assaults trial will be set on April 21 in Sechelt provincial court. The trial concluded last Friday (March 24).

Sechelt and Gibsons will benefit from the funds raised at the third annual Rick Hansen Wheels In Motion event. Chris Cowan and Wendy Comeau led a team of volunteers to organize the community-based event that raised over $4,000.

A freak storm sent massive lightning strikes into downtown Sechelt last Friday, resulting in electrical currents running through buildings and people's bodies.

Hadani Ditmars, an international journalist based in Canada, will show videoclips of her journey andread from her bestseller, Dancing in the No Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq, at the Gibsons Public Library on Saturday, April 8, at 2 p.m.

A Langdale man who strangled and drowned his mother in a shower was acting under the psychotic belief that she was a Chinese spy sent to kill him, a B.C. Supreme Court Justice decided Thursday. Raymond Irwin, 34, was found not criminally responsible.