Local News

The Town of Gibsons says funding has now come through for a cold-weather homeless shelter, which will open Dec. 1. Council approved leasing the Marine Room in the Arts Building on South Fletcher Road to RainCity Housing at a Nov.

Sechelt council has endorsed four applications for non-medical cannabis retail licences. In a report to the Nov.

The Sunshine Coast Affordable Housing Society’s proposal to build new rental apartments on Shaw Road in partnership with the Town of Gibsons has been given final zoning approval. Councillors voted unanimously Nov.

Mayor Bill Beamish has sworn in Gibsons’ newest youth councillors, Elphinstone Secondary students Eilis Mackenzie and Gravity Guignard. “We had six applications from the high school this year,” Beamish said.

Parents in Pender Harbour concerned that children are at risk because of drivers who don’t respect traffic rules around school buses could be closer to their goal of getting dash cams installed on buses.

A dearth of green-waste drop-off options for commercial operators in the Gibsons area has been putting small landscaping and gardening business owners in a lurch for too long, says Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) director Donna McMahon.

Gibsons council has voted in favour of moving ahead with zoning and Official Community Plan amendments that would allow a three-storey, 40-unit supportive housing facility on the two lots fronting 749 School Rd., the former RCMP building.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Nov. 11 to 18: On Nov. 12, police attended a suspicious incident report in Madeira Park after a resident noticed a deer head tied up in a tree.

SCRD Briefs

A new Gibsons-based group is aiming to complement the work of conservation officers on the Sunshine Coast to stop bears and other wildlife from being destroyed because of conflicts with humans.