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Sunshine Coast Avalon Recovery Society will hold a dinner and silent auction fundraiser on Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Gumboot Café with doors at 6 p.m, a buffet dinner and entertainment by Angie McCauley.

The Sechelt Aquatic Centre is little more than a year old, but the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) is already facing repair hurdles. The swimming pool, which opened on Nov.

The proposed expansion and renovation of St. Mary's Hospital will now incorporate state-of-the-art infection control standards, but it will come at a cost -delaying the design phase of the project by six months.

The Community Programming team at Coast Cable 11 is planning a new initiative to explore the variety of faith experiences in their local access area. Cable 11's Marlene Lowden said they plan to air a pilot program some time in the spring.

Gibsons council is taking another look at how it handled the decision to proceed with plan B as the preferred Gospel Rock neighbourhood plan option. At Tuesday's meeting, council voted unanimously to release the minutes of the Nov.

There are record breaking running races, breath-holding deep-sea diving competitions - and now there is the Scottish world-wide toast to Robert Burns record breaker. The Bard's birthday is celebrated by Scots the world over on Jan.

Security at B.C. Ferries terminals is about to be improved thanks to $5.6 million from Transport Canada.

The transportation committee of the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) moved into the big boardroom in anticipation of a large gathering to discuss recent snow removal operations on Monday morning.

Matthew Wild/Special to Coast Reporter/ A judge is to decide if the Town of Gibsons council was elected lawfully.

The fact that the federal finance minister visited the riding this week to hear area residents' concerns in advance of his government's preparation of the budget doesn't guarantee that all, or even any, local projects will receive funding when Jim Fl