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Audrey Santiago has two dates she will never forget. March 21, 2007, the horrible day when one of her fellow employees died, and Oct.

Sechelt council has adopted a bylaw which halves the Girl Guides of Canada Camp Olave's permissive tax exemption to $128,500, while maintaining full exemptions for the remaining churches, community and charitable groups in the District.

After a three-day design charette, Gibsons' residents got a first peek at what the future of development around Gibsons Harbour may look like in the years to come.

A private member's bill aimed at giving Canadian law enforcement the necessary tools to deal with ecstasy and crystal meth passed its first test in the House of Commons this week thanks to area member of Parliament John Weston.

Coast paramedics' morale hit a new low this week as the provincial government moved to legislate an end to their seven-month strike, short-circuiting a union vote on a settlement offer which closely matches the new legislation.

At a committee of the whole meeting Wednesday, Oct. 28, council moved to proceed with the speedy adoption of an environmental management and protection bylaw to regulate the cutting or clear cutting of trees on development sites in Sechelt.

Jesse James Aimee, 29, a resident of the Sunshine Coast, is currently facing charges of sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, three counts of Internet luring and obstruction of justice.

By some twist of fate or poetry, the number of people who gathered in Winegarden Park Saturday, Oct. 24 for the International Day of Climate Action was only a handful shy of the number the crowd was trying to highlight: 350.

The Vancouver Olympic committee (VANOC) will feature Sechelt Nation artist Dionne Paul's 47 sq. metre stained glass work, The Eyes of the People, at Killarney Community Centre - 2010 Olympics venue for short track speed skating.

Since moving onto his boat at Porpoise Bay government dock seven years ago, Jim Eldred, 58, says he's lived in the shadow of a local bylaw that limits the dock's liveaboards to one individual - a position that had already been filled.