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Three youths from the Coast are embarking on the experience of a lifetime through the Rotary Youth Exchange this month.

Jackson Davies, better known as Constable Constable on the Beachcombers, was stopped for photo ops numerous times on his way to the Gibsons Wharf where filming of A Beachcombers Christmas movie got started this week.

A recently honoured community advocate is sounding the alarm for the hungry in our community. Sue Towers, this year's recipient of the Sechelt Rotary Club's community award, is dismayed at the response to the annual Christmas in July campaign.

"The best adventure is into the mysterious," according to Albert Einstein, as quoted in the final paragraph of Natasha Rosewood's debut book, Aaagh! I Think I'm Psychic (And You Can Be Too).

Gardening is the most popular outdoor activity in the world - more so than golf, says Glenn Lewis, who is, not surprisingly, the president of the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society.

The latest cost estimate for the Sunshine Coast Regional District's new headquarters on Field Road is $3.6 million.

At least five men from Gibsons will face criminal charges related to an attack on a campsite of skateboarders during the Pender Harbour May Day festivities. According to Sgt.

Nine months after the Sunshine Coast Recycling and Processing Society (SCRAPS) collapsed financially and closed its recycling depots, the regional district is preparing to hire a new recycling contractor.

A proposed gravel pit near the Sunshine Coast Regional District's water intake on Chapman Creek has regional directors fuming in frustration.

After nearly a year of fund-raising, a choir of 24 young hopefuls between the ages of nine and 18 went to Germany in early July to sing in their first huge competition.