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Local mental health staff played a round of golf at the Sechelt Golf and Country Club and dined at the Augusta Grill as part of a team-building training day this week.

Provincial government ministers, First Nations, independent power project (IPP) industry leaders and local business met at the McNair Creek IPP in Port Mellon Wednesday morning, Oct. 14, each group bringing its own concerns and questions about IPPs.

As Howe Sound Pulp and Paper (HSPP) celebrates its 100th anniversary this week, confirmation of more than $45 million from the federal government is adding to the celebrations.

It's official. The Town of Gibsons is one of the most liveable communities in the world.

Changes are coming to the rates seniors living in residential care pay for room and board, and for most, the rate is going up. Health minister Kevin Falcon made the announcement from Victoria on Sept. 8.

After almost four years on Gibsons council, Chris Koopmans has announced he plans to resign almost immediately.

Jane Blackmore is a mesmerizing speaker, not only because of her oratory skills, but because of her startling message: the existence of a third-world settlement where child abuse is rampant, in beautiful Bountiful, B.C.

While cuts to organizations which respond to violence against women and children have been rescinded for this year, the Coast's providers of anti-violence services are bracing for possible cuts in 2010.

On the evening of Sept, 11 at the Petro Canada service station in Gibsons, an unknown female stole a digital camera from another customer inside the store.

The paramedics' union is encouraging members to vote down a government offer, which the union says addresses none of paramedics' needs. "Basically we disagree with the whole thing," said union spokesperson B.J. Chute.