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A Sechelt woman is hoping her four-year fight to get WorkSafe BC to acknowledge her husband’s death was related to chemical exposure on the job will lead to changes that mean others won’t have to wage the same battle.

Snowfall records set as seven storms cross region in one week

It’s been three months since a fire damaged their offices at 5-682 Gibsons Way and with cleanup complete, the Salvation Army Sunshine Coast Ministries will be returning to business as usual on Monday.

Plans are in the works for police officers to start riding school buses to keep an eye out for drivers who pass buses that have stopped to pick up children, said Staff Sgt. Poppy Hallam at the Jan. 16 policing and public safety committee meeting.

Nominations are now open for the Business Excellence Awards Sunshine Coast (BEASC). The awards celebrate outstanding business successes on the Southern Sunshine Coast and are hosted by the Sechelt, Gibsons, and Pender Harbour Chambers of Commerce.

A handful of collisions and numerous near misses involving pedestrians and vehicles during the dark winter months have politicians, community members and the RCMP searching for solutions.

The Town of Gibsons’ planning and development committee is recommending work begin on a zoning bylaw update to allow secondary suites in more types of homes.

An option has been created for a young person on the Sunshine Coast to join a committee bereft of youth, but which they once ran. School District No. 46 (SD46) trustees voted in favour of a motion at their Jan.

Volunteers are needed to help with the 2020 Homeless Count in Gibsons, Roberts Creek, and Sechelt. Following the 2018 Report on Homeless Counts in B.C., homeless counts are taking place in communities across the province in 2020.