Local News

This is your opportunity to have your own local boating safety advocate or hero recognized for their outstanding or life saving efforts in the field of recreational boating safety and environmental stewardship.

The doors to the famous PNE Prize Home will open to the public for a chance at a sneak preview ahead of the 2011 Fair at the PNE on July 31 and Aug. 7.

B.C.'s future forests will include super-trees that can shrug off attacks by pests like the mountain pine beetle - or are remarkably efficient at sequestering carbon, reducing CO2 in the atmosphere.

Looking for a job is not always an easy task, and one local organization is striving to make the job hunt a bit easier. The Sunshine Coast Em-ployment Centre, located in Sechelt, is a free drop-in resource centre assisting those looking for work.

Sechelt council tabled a motion for a mayor's red tape reduction advisory committee for commerce and development due to a clerical error.

After much scrutiny over housing provided for temporary workers at Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP), area directors had their questions answered by mill staff last week.

After much debate and public feedback, the Town of Gibsons is nearing completion on a new bylaw that will ban body-gripping traps.

In any community, big or small, addiction exists, but the issue of addiction is often swept under the rug. Or those who seek help are unable to receive it due to lack of resources.

It looks like everyone with an address in Sechelt will be able to vote in the upcoming municipal election Nov. 19, whether they are on the Coast or not.

MHPM Project Managers Inc. is the management company that will likely oversee the building of Sechelt's new biosolids facility, but not before the company has its references checked out, at the request of council.