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Sunnycrest Mall got all dressed up with a photo booth on Saturday, Oct. 27, with London Drugs offering free prints and professional photography by Craig Cochrane. Face paint and costumes were on hand for festive families.

Pender Harbour witches exchange brooms for paddles as they creep across Garden Bay Lake on Halloween eve.

On Sunday, Oct. 28, crowds gathered at Coopers Green Park for the 10th anniversary of the Halfmoon Bay Apple Festival. As always, organizer Katie Angermeyer was on site with her copper kettle to churn local apples into butter.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has closed all of Sechelt Inlet, areas of Agamemnon Channel, the mouth of Jervis Inlet and the waters around Nelson and Hardy islands to bivalve shellfish harvesting because of paralytic shellfish poisonin

Coast Guard crews and a private salvage company were back in Gerrans Bay this week, after a boat that sank and was refloated sank again. Spill containment booms were placed around the San Jolyne III after it sank on Oct.

First-past-the-post advocate Bill Tieleman and proportional representation (PR) campaigner Bet Cecil defended their positions and fielded questions at a lunch hosted by Sechelt and District Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 29.

The voting period for the referendum on electoral reform is underway but questions keep coming about voting mechanics, riding changes and how a new voting system could shift power in the legislature.

A coven of 13 Coast witches danced across Sechelt on Halloween. “It started off to be a flash mob but then we realized in Sechelt if we didn’t let people know, there wouldn’t be many people watching,” said Kathy Hobbs.

Sunshine Coast RCMP say they’ll have extra officers on patrol during the prime trick-or-treating hours Wednesday. Staff Sgt.

Pender Harbour and Egmont’s Official Community Plan (OCP) is now official, following the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors’ unanimous vote to adopt the OCP bylaw at the Oct. 25 board meeting.