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A new mutual aid agreement between the Pender Harbour and Egmont/Ruby Lake volunteer fire departments was put to the test Aug. 13. Until about a month ago, Egmont had no assistance available in fire situations.

The fourth annual Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival ended last Sunday with the strains of Brahms during a finale by the Lafayette String Quartet.

The bowl of undeveloped land behind Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt is the site for three proposed multi-use athletic fields and a stadium.

Come one, come all to this year's Creek Daze celebrations, Saturday, Aug. 23. The Higgledy Piggledy parade leaves the Roberts Creek Hall at 11:30 a.m.

A 50-year-old man is dead in the latest fire to hit the Sunshine Coast, although this one does not appear to be suspicious in nature. On Thursday night, Aug. 7, Sunshine Coast RCMP and the Gibsons fire department attended a trailer fire on Reed Road.

A chance encounter brought people together who otherwise would never have met - and it changed the future of everyone involved. Terry Umbach, John Mwendwa and the villagers of Ndandini in East Kenya are forever united because of the encounter.

Greg Amos/Staff Writer/i> A week-long coroner's inquest is revealing more than just terrible weather behind a fatal boat crash that killed 51-year-old Merrill "Spooner" Dixon near Deserted Bay in the upper reaches of Jervis Inlet almost a year and a

An evening at the Royal Canadian Legion was once such a Canadian tradition that Stan Rogers sang: "Friday night at the Legion when she's dancing with her man." It was a place for soldiers and officers to connect with their community.

An aggressive black bear had to be shot last week, adding to this year's string of bad news for bears.

A Sunshine Coast man is facing one count of arson in connection with a fire on Sechelt Indian Band lands on July 13. On Aug. 8, Sunshine Coast RCMP issued an arrest warrant for 48-year-old Michael Wilfred Shea.