Local News

The fundraising drive for the new recreation facilities on the Coast got a major financial kickstart Monday. The Sunshine Coast Credit Union presented the Gibsons Area Community Centre Society (GACCS) with a cheque for $100,000.

The date for the decision in the Pender Harbour May Day assaults trial will be set on April 21 in Sechelt provincial court. The trial concluded last Friday (March 24).

Sechelt and Gibsons will benefit from the funds raised at the third annual Rick Hansen Wheels In Motion event. Chris Cowan and Wendy Comeau led a team of volunteers to organize the community-based event that raised over $4,000.

A freak storm sent massive lightning strikes into downtown Sechelt last Friday, resulting in electrical currents running through buildings and people's bodies.

Hadani Ditmars, an international journalist based in Canada, will show videoclips of her journey andread from her bestseller, Dancing in the No Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq, at the Gibsons Public Library on Saturday, April 8, at 2 p.m.

A Langdale man who strangled and drowned his mother in a shower was acting under the psychotic belief that she was a Chinese spy sent to kill him, a B.C. Supreme Court Justice decided Thursday. Raymond Irwin, 34, was found not criminally responsible.

The Friends of Rockwood (FOR) are planning a fund-raiser to fix up the Rockwood heritage house and start saving to rebuild the annex building, which is slated to be demolished in July.

The B.C. Schizophrenia Society and the Provincial Educational Committee have developed a program, called Partnership Education, aimed at increasing the awareness of mental illness.

During the second airport information meeting March 29, a crowd of more than 60 people came to the Seaside Centre in Sechelt to have their say on an expansion of the Sechelt airport.

Tears fell and flags flew at half-mast on the Coast in honour of one of our own, 22-year-old Robert Costall, who died serving his country near Kandahar, Afghanistan on Tuesday.