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Displays of appreciation come in all shapes and sizes, and at Sechelt Hospital on Tuesday evening, it came as flashing lights and siren calls.

Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents: The last few weeks feel like a cruel April Fool’s joke. Unfortunately, as we look across the province and the rest of Canada, and around the world, it is clear that COVID-19 is not a joke.

It took overtime work by staff and two back-to-back emergency meetings, but Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors managed to cut this year’s tax increase by nearly two thirds in response to the economic downturn caused by COVID-19.

BC Ferries has already made some changes to sailing times on the Langdale-Horsehoe Bay route as it implements measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and a possible reduction in the number of sailings could be on the horizon.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has called, once again, on British Columbians not to travel unless it’s absolutely necessary, a message local officials on the Sunshine Coast have also been emphasizing in recent days.

While Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is working in partnership with them, the Sunshine Coast COVID Physician Task Force is a homegrown phenomenon.

Local government leaders on the Sunshine Coast have succeeded in efforts to make COVID-19 testing available to police and firefighters in the same way it’s currently being made available to workers in the health-care system and paramedics.

West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country MP Patrick Weiler has committed to weekly briefings with the Sunshine Coast business community as the impact of measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, many of which have led to businesses closing dow

Operators earning money from short-term rentals during the COVID-19 crisis are similar to hoarders and exploitive resellers and the province must put an end to it, says Gibsons Mayor Bill Beamish.