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A "tsunami" of financial abuse targeting elderly populations is coming over the next 10 years, April Struthers of the BC Association of Community Response Networks (BCACR) warned members of the Coast's health and financial sectors during a June 8 wor

More than 1,000 people, including 500-plus emergency responders from on and off-Coast paid their respects to Beatrice Sorensen and Angie Nemeth in a Celebration of Life at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt Sunday afternoon.

Plans to modernize RCMP health services had Sechelt Coun. Doug Hockley seeing red at the June 6 council meeting.

Sechelt council requested a status report from School District No. 46 regarding the proposed Neighbourhood of Learning at Sechelt Elementary School during their June 6 regular council meeting.

Sechelt Mayor John Henderson will be pitching use of the municipal airport to WestJet at the end of this month, in the hope the major airline will consider providing service to Sechelt in the future.

School District No. 46 (SD46) committed to consultation with the Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) about Aboriginal education this week, after SIB Chief Garry Feschuk paid the board a visit to ask for some specific reports on the subject.

If Mark Haden set policy in our country, harm reduction would be expanded and the war on drugs declared a failure. The present system is not working, he said.

Concerns about community school funding changes have subsided this week after School District No. 46 (SD46) consulted more with community school co-ordinators and local governments about the funding formula alteration.

A Gibsons teen has issued a plea for help after his friend, 17-year-old Muj Rodriguez, was paralyzed June 1 when he was crushed by a falling tree limb during an afternoon walk through the Mahan Road trails.

One day before June's second protest in front of his Sechelt constituency office, Conservative MP John Weston said his party could have done a better job of selling budget implementation Bill C-38 to Canadians.