Local News

A 50-year-old Sunshine Coast man was airlifted to hospital in Vancouver Wednesday morning after a serious collision on Hwy. 101. Sunshine Coast RCMP and paramedics responded to the accident on Hwy. 101 near Leek Road in Roberts Creek just after 10 a.

The Salvation Army (Sunshine Coast Community Church and Ministries) announced this week the arrival of its own community crisis response unit (CCRU). There are currently 13 such vehicles in use by the Salvation Army in B.C.

Two men accused of assaulting longboarders in Pender Harbour May 24, 2004, will have their pre-trial conference by phone on April 26 after their lawyer was unable to make a March 24 pre-trial conference.

Three young people from Sechelt along with 38 of their peers from across B.C. became the latest Queen's Venturers last week.

The land base for the proposed community forest has been officially identified and it includes Chapman and Gray Creek watersheds.

One of the world's foremost interpreters of French piano music will perform at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, at the Raven's Cry Theatre, in the final concert of the Coast Recital Society's (CRS) 2004/05 season.

Tim Savinkoff has made it his mission to help find good homes for abandoned dogs on the Coast. Now he needs a home himself, after a fire destroyed his trailer and all his belongings last week.

A group of music lovers from Chatelech Secondary School is spending spring break cutting a CD. The group, spearheaded by Chat Grade 12 student Daniel Kingsbury, is at work recording a new CD at a cabin in Roberts Creek.

An earlier agreement among all Sunshine Coast governments to help pay for the development of a cross-country ski centre at Dakota Ridge has run into trouble.

Sunshine Coast authors Betty C. Keller and Rosella M. Leslie have just been honoured with a B.C. Book Prize nomination for A Stain Upon the Sea.