Local News

A Sechelt business has been nominated in three categories for the 2013 Small Business BC awards. The Sound is nominated for Best Concept, Best Community Impact and the Premiers People's Choice.

Laurie McConnell was recognized as the Volunteer of the Year at the annual Community Futures BC conference recently in Vancouver. McConnell is the founder and CEO of Bad Dog Design Inc., a web development/social media company, and Bigpacific.

Elementary students from Gibsons and Langdale got up close and personal with sea creatures such ascrabs, sea anemones and starfish when the Vancouver Aquarium's AquaVan visited Gibsons Elementary School this past week.

Long distance charges no longer apply to Telus customers calling from the Coast to Metro Vancouver. Those charges are also gone for Telus customers calling between Gibsons, Pender Harbour and Port Mellon.

A public information meeting will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 20, to discuss the controversial Rogers Communications tower replacement proposed for the Gibsons fire hall at 790 North Road.

Sechelt council gave three readings to a new trapping bylaw that will go to the provincial government for approval before final adoption. Coun. Doug Hockley opposed the move. "I don't think this bylaw goes far enough.

A cougar attack that killed two lambs in Roberts Creek should cause animal owners to take precautions, conservation officer Dean Miller said this week. The attack happened at night on Oct. 30 at a hobby farm in the Lockyer Road area.

Traffic conflicts outside Gibsons Elementary School are "a recipe for disaster," the coordinator for Sunshine Coast Speed Watch said Monday, Nov. 4.

There were many smiles and a few tears on the face of 88-year-old veteran Larry Boyd as he watched student volunteers from Elphinstone Secondary School tend to the forgotten graves of veterans buried in Seaview Cemetery.

The Halfmoon Bay Childcare Centre Society must close its after-school care program at the end of this month or risk closing the daycare as well. "It's purely financial.