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Washboard Hank and Lance Loree will perform Feb. 7 at the Gumboot Garden Café in Roberts Creek.

Another candidate has stepped forward seeking the NDP nod in the next federal election. Nicholas Simons announced his intention to seek the NDP nomination for the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast riding.

More layoffs are coming at St. Mary's Hospital in Sechelt, with 26 cooks and dietary aides facing unemployment. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) has decided to contract out food services to a private company for hospitals in this region.

More than 30 years of dedicated service to the education field will come to a close at the end of the month for Kelly Grittner.

A performer who toured as an acrobat with Le Cirque du Soleil for two years will visit the Coast to give a circus tricks workshop especially for kids, followed by a performance for all ages.

Five years after their teacher-student affair began, Heather Ingram and Dusty Dickeson are parents of a two-month-old boy named Phoenix and their story is being featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show.

Sunshine Coast RCMP have arrested and charged six suspects in connection with a violent home invasion last Friday in Gibsons. Police are also investigating a similar incident which also took place last Friday, this time in Sechelt.

Town of Gibsons councillor Andrea Goldsmith announced this week she is seeking the Green Party nomination for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast in the next federal election.

John Reynolds, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, is stepping down from a post that pays him an extra $42,000 a year. Reynolds is no longer opposition house leader after leaving the post and tendering his resignation on Monday.

CUPE 801 president Alice Lutes has filed papers to become the next federal New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast.