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Sunday’s clear, cold and windy weather in Howe Sound made for perfect conditions for sailboat racing and, it turned out, a bit of whale watching.

The Boating BC Association is calling newly passed federal legislation on abandoned and derelict boats an “incentive for boaters to take action.

Board ‘remains committed to only hosting controlled events’

The District of Sechelt’s finance department is now projecting a 2019 tax increase as high as 12.95 per cent, if all the proposals still on the table make it through the final deliberations. It would also be the highest increase in a decade.

Sechelt council’s committee of the whole has given the planning department the go-ahead to draft a zoning bylaw for a mixed-use commercial and residential development on Field Road in Wilson Creek.

The District of Sechelt has awarded the Visitor Information Centre contract to Sunshine Coast Tourism (SCT), at a cost of $40,000.

It remains on their list but BC Timber Sales won’t be auctioning cutblock DL 1313 in Elphinstone until they receive direction from B.C. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson.

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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth has agreed to another extension of the state of local emergency declared by Sechelt just prior to the Feb. 15 evacuation of the Seawatch neighbourhood.

A group of North Shore teens are being hailed as heroes after carrying out a dramatic rescue on Grouse Mountain Wednesday afternoon.