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An exciting after-school program that gives students hands-on experience in trades like woodworking, metal work and automotive repair has been quietly running on volunteer power for the past 17 years. School District No.

The proponents of the Gibsons Public Market announced early last week that they had successfully purchased the old yacht club property in the Landing to serve as the location of the Gibsons Public Market.

A Gambier Island company has helped remove the Styrofoam-and-cement docks that were placed on Crown land on Anvil Island without permission from the province.

School District No. 46 board chair Silas White was thanked "for six years of incredible service" when he stepped down as chair at the last school board meeting of 2013.

The public is invited to review and comment before Feb. 18 on plans to establish more than 18,000 hectares of old growth management areas on the Sunshine Coast. Old growth management areas protect the biological diversity of old growth forests.

BC Liquor Store customers donated more than $217,000 to support Red Cross relief efforts in the Philippines. One hundred per cent of these funds have been forwarded to the Canadian Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan Relief Fund.

When Capilano University ran into a deficit and was forced to cut programs this year, it wasn't just a story about budgets and numbers. It touched off a conversation about whether the school had lost its way.

Funds for the Davis Bay Wharf project have been quietly growing during the past few months with 70 per cent of the $600,000 needed now confirmed.

The Sechelt fire department is reminding Coast residents to dispose of ashes properly after soot cleaned from a chimney started a house fire in West Sechelt on Dec. 21.

The sometimes-segregated Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) employees on the Coast came together around a common theme recently and danced their way to unity.