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Also, 275 scholarships and bursaries at a total of approximately $340,000 have been awarded to graduating students and other briefs from the June 8 school board meeting

Transportation Choices Sunshine Coast (TraC) will host the launch of a new guide to cycling the Sunshine Coast. The acapella choral ensemble Coast Vespersong will lead a concert of prayer and contemplation in Madeira Park. And Vancouver’s Graham Brown Band will perform at the Roberts Creek Legion on Friday, June 10, followed by We Found a Lovebird (with The Vallees) onstage the next night. 

Because of a staffing shortage, BC Ferries had cancelled four sailings June 10. The ferry service announced early Friday morning that it had reinstated those sailings.

Rotary Club’s annual dance returns after COVID hiatus

Also, June 10 is Sports Day

Cambium Blue’s story is set in 1994 at the beginning of the bark beetle epidemic that ultimately destroyed millions of acres of pine forest in western North America. As industry dies with the trees, citizens must face existential questions about their community. Author Maureen Brownlee has two readings at Gibsons and District Public Library on June 10, with more appearances to follow in Powell River and Courtenay. 

Part of case involved evidence of online activity at vacation home, digital forensic investigator tells New Westminster court via video link 

Matthew Cookney plans to take his family on vacation after his Lotto Max ticket won

Also, FLAIR holds last meeting of the season