Local News

Protesters blockaded a Roberts Creek logging road for two days this week before reaching a negotiated agreement with the logging contractor, A&A Trading.

Like Olympians everywhere, Kevin Norman is proud of his medals. The wiry young man took two firsts in track and field events at the recent Special Olympics in Comox. Norman, 27, specializes in the 100 m run and the running long jump.

The founder of the Peace Walker Society is calling on the Coast community to join him in making origami peace cranes to honour the memory of a Hiroshima bombing victim.

On Wednesday night, residents, politicians and environmentalists packed into the Sechelt Seniors' Centre to rally together to voice concerns about Pan Pacific Aggregates' mine exploration and to plan their next steps in fighting the mine.

The opening date for the two new recreation centres approved by voters in the June 25 referendum will be late in 2006, at the very earliest.

A Gibsons developer must pay a fine of $1,000 for cutting trees near Charman Creek. In Sechelt provincial court June 30, Barrie Bolton defended his numbered company against four charges of municipal bylaw infractions dating back to early 2004.

This time they weren't fighting fires or rescuing cats. The Gibsons Fire Department came to the rescue of Gibsons banner project coordinator Trish Thompson last week.

Plans to log near Mt. Elphinstone Provincial Park in Roberts Creek have been changed to avoid building a road across five environmentally sensitive creeks. Instead, B.C.

The Pender Harbour Music Society and the Area A Society for Seniors Housing are joining forces to put on a dinner/dance and silent auction on July 16 at the Pender Harbour Community Hall.

After a two-year delay, the construction manager of the Irvine's Landing marine resort hopes to begin building this summer, but the source of the resort's water supply is still up in the air.