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Community Services food bank manager and longtime Coast volunteer Norm Blair has been recognized by Toastmasters with the 2020 Communication and Leadership Award. The award was handed out online as part of an Oct.

A Burnaby RCMP communications strategist is stepping into a newly-formed communications management position at the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).

More than 100 people have signed a petition launched Oct. 19 demanding the Gibsons and District Aquatic Facility “be reopened and operated following a schedule equivalent to other pools in the region.

Shíshálh Nation has been forced to snuff out its traditional Halloween fireworks display because of COVID-19, while fireworks bans remain in place in the Town of Gibsons and District of Sechelt.

Car batteries, tires and a bevy of barnacle-covered bottles, Styrofoam and “alarming amounts of rope” were among the items pulled from the Ocean as part of Gibsons’ Healthy Harbour Project. The Oct.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are investigating the second break-in and theft at the Gibsons Landing Trading post in the past two months. According to an Oct. 26 release, RCMP were notified of the second break-in around 8 a.m. Saturday morning.

Incumbent MLA, and projected winner in Powell River-Sunshine Coast, Nicholas Simons of the NDP, says he’s now spoken with both the Green and Liberal candidates, although the Greens are not formally conceding the race just yet. As of 1:58 a.m.

With the votes cast Oct. 24 and ballots collected at the advance polls now counted, Elections BC has started sorting and verifying hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots from across B.C.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are now part of Project Rainbow, a national initiative created by Cpl. Brendan Harkness. Harkness, an RCMP officer since 2008, started working on the idea two years ago while serving as detachment commander in Hudson Hope, B.C.

Incumbent MLA Nicholas Simons holds the lead in Powell River-Sunshine Coast and is projected to win, but Kim Darwin of the Greens says she’s not prepared to concede the race until the mail-in ballots are counted. As of 1:58 a.m.