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Burgers are ready to be slung at one of the last major fundraisers for the Sunshine Coast Minor Hockey Association (SCMHA) youth players before they fly to Beijing next week.

With the weather turning, funding has been earmarked for a cold weather shelter in Gibsons. The Town was not included in the initial round of BC Housing funding for seasonal shelters announced on Oct.

A black bear destroyed the interior of a pickup truck parked on a Roberts Creek property after becoming trapped inside the vehicle overnight Monday, Dec. 3 “He just ripped the whole of the inside apart,” Marlene Road resident Clinton Casley said.

This weekend the elves will be hustling. On Saturday, Dec. 8, the Elves Club is hosting its annual Crash the Coast event, with a boot drive on the streets and telethon on Eastlink Community TV.

Gibsons council has approved a contract for new wells, speeding up the timeline for a new supply well as part of the plan to begin supplying Zone 3 from the aquifer and taking it off the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s (SCRD) Chapman system.

The backers of a proposed cannabis store in Gibsons, whose application for a temporary use permit was put on hold because councillors ran out of time at a November committee meeting, will now have to wait until at least the spring. At the Dec.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Nov. 26 to Dec. 3: Collision • On Nov. 27, police attended a motor vehicle incident involving a pedestrian on Teredo Street at Inlet Avenue, Sechelt.

Sechelt has cracked the top 20 in its first year of eligibility for the BC Business annual survey of Best Cities for Work in B.C.

Urgent fixes to the North and South Pender Harbour water service were highlighted in the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) pre-budget talks last week. The projects were introduced in advance of round one of budget talks, slated for January.

A North Vancouver man is dead and a man from the Sunshine Coast is recovering in hospital after a head-on collision on Highway 1 at Mountain Highway on Saturday night.