Local News

Sechelt councillors and Mayor Cam Reid are delighted to be back in office for another term, along with newcomer Keith Thirkell.

Four new members join the three returning school trustees on the local school board as a result of last Saturday's civic election. Topping the Sechelt poll was newcomer Silas White.

Alongside Gibsons Public Art Gallery's (GPAG) current Animals! Animals! exhibition of Sunshine Coast artists' paintings, photography, clay and carving is a series of lively painting classes for five to 10-year-olds.

On Nov. 19, Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) voters elected Garry Nohr for Area B (Halfmoon Bay), Lorne Lewis for Area E (Elphinstone) and Lee Turnbull for Area F (West Howe Sound).

Representatives from the criminal justice system, social and community services, local governments, health services, addiction services, family services and schools came together in one room this week to come up with strategies to handle drug abuse o

Two Roberts Creek residents will be heading to Caracus, Venezuela this January to take part in the upcoming World Social Forum (WSF).

A Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) water boil advisory was lifted last Friday afternoon after lab results revealed drinking water in the distribution system from the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) Langdale reservoir was clear of E. coli.

Sunshine Coast artist Gordon Halloran, creator of the Ice Painting, will take Canada to the world with his ice art installation Pitture Sotto Zero to the XX Olympic Winter Games as the only Canadian visual artist in the official line up of the 2006 C

Remembering Hahle is an event that will take place on Sunday, Nov. 20, at Roberts Creek Hall in honour of the popular vocalist and songwriter Hahle Gerow who died suddenly on Oct. 31 at the age of 62.

Seven-year-old Jaden was sitting quietly amongst the moss and ferns near the Iris Griffith Centre. He wrote in his journal, "There are so many trees above us and they protect us but then they drop their rain drops on us.