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Property assessment notices are on the way

“Very large avalanches are almost certain” on Friday, Jan. 3, warned Avalanche Canada in an uncommon extreme avalanche warning issued for the Sea-to-Sky mountains.

Northland Properties Corp. new owner

Other Coast assessments follow Lower Mainland trend

Large crowds that amassed at Armours Beach in Gibsons and the Davis Bay Pier in Sechelt for the annual New Year’s Day polar bear dip didn’t have far to go to get wet.

Concern and frustration are mounting for a group of Granthams Landing residents who say rising volumes of rainwater runoff could be putting Soames Creek, and their homes, at risk.

Approximately $54,270 was raised by the Sunshine Coast Secret Santa group for the 2019 holiday season, making it a record-breaking year for the charity. The amount is nearly double what was raised last season, when the group raised about $30,520.

The B.C. government has announced a list of the most popular names for babies in 2019. Can we get a drum roll please? Olivia is leading the way for babies born this year in British Columbia.

A trailer was destroyed in an explosion on a popular logging road used to access trails in Roberts Creek last Saturday. There were no witnesses to the explosion, but the blast was loud enough to prompt a call to the RCMP at approximately 9:30 p.m.

Those keen to freeze in the New Year have two options on the Sunshine Coast – Gibsons and Davis Bay. At 11 a.m. crowds gathered at Armours Beach in Gibsons will plunge into the waters of Shoal Channel.