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Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for the week of June 5 to June 11: On June 5, a thief broke into a residence in the 4300 block of Marble Road in Wilson Creek.

Do you know someone who has ever looked at a piece of technology and said, "I can do better!" and then gone out and done it? Or how about the creative thinker who saw a problem and came up with the sort of solution that makes you wonder, "Why didn't

On Saturday June 2, local MP John Weston inaugurated National Health and Fitness Day with events in Whistler, Squamish, Lions Bay and West Vancouver.

After 25 years, Julie Skippon, the president and face of the B.C. Schizo-phrenia Society's Sunshine Coast Branch, is retiring. She, along with Const. Ashley Taylor, were honoured at the annual general meeting of the society on June 1.

The new WorkBC Employment Services Centre run by Open Door Group officially opened its site at Sunnycrest Mall in Gibsons on June 1, to the delight of Gibsons Mayor Wayne Rowe.

A former federal fisheries minister has joined a Sea to Sky Corridor fisheries roundtable group in voicing concern about the potential impacts of changes to the Fisheries Act that have been tabled in the House of Commons.

The inaugural backroad trash bash, held on May 26, helped to put a small dent in the illegal dumping problem on the Sunshine Coast.

Last week more than 300 Coasters rode their bicycles almost 15,000 kilometres during Bike to Work Week. That puts us in fourth place of the 26 participating B.C. communities for cyclists, and sixth place for number of kilometres biked.

As part of its effort to help encourage the creation of a Sunshine Coast biodiversity strategy, the Ruby Lake Lagoon Society held its inaugural Biodiversity Summit May 29 to June 2.

A variety of concerns came up at the June 5 public hearing on a bylaw that would limit medicinal marijuana production for multiple licences to industrial areas in Sechelt.