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Catalyst Paper Corporation has been sold, including its Powell River mill.

Sechelt’s communications manager got unanimous council support for a new communications plan and updated policies around communications and social media that were presented at the Oct. 3 council meeting.

Daniel Bouman, executive director for Sunshine Coast Conservation Association, spoke as a delegation to the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board on Sept. 27, urging for conservation on Mt. Elphinstone.

Councillors in Sechelt are welcoming the changes being proposed in a major overhaul of the district’s development procedures bylaw, which includes a chance to give an early yes or no to big projects.

Chemical storage facility Sechelt councillors voted at their Oct. 3 meeting to change a recommendation from the public works committee on the contract to design a chemical storage facility for the Water Resource Centre.

Wormy Lake is a step closer to being renamed to honour John Phare, a tree faller who was killed fighting a wildfire near the lake in 2015.

Four candidates standing for mayor and eight vying for councillor will crowd the podium at the All Candidates Forum hosted by Gibsons & District Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Oct. 9 starting at 6 p.m. sharp. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

An update on engineering and operations for Sechelt’s public works, parks and environment committee last week prompted Coun. Doug Wright to, once again, criticize the lack of progress on big capital projects.

A Gibsons community association’s efforts to have the BC Supreme Court overturn a zoning approval was due to be back in court in Vancouver Oct. 5.

More than 200 people have signed a petition calling on the Town of Gibsons to abandon plans to build an affordable housing project on the Charman Creek Lands, an area between the foot of Shaw Road in Upper Gibsons and Stewart Road in Lower Gibsons.