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Volunteers and supporters of Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast put down their hammers and reflected on the year's success at their annual general meeting Tuesday night in Davis Bay.

Riding 290 kilometres for charity - sounds like a great idea. Riding it all in one day - sounds a little nuts.

A 31-year-old Sechelt man has been sentenced to one year in custody after he pled guilty to sexual assault this week. John Sullivan appeared in Sechelt provincial court on Wednesday where he entered the plea and was handed down his sentence.

Habitat for Humanity volunteers haven't been resting on their laurels lately.

An apology 150 years in the making has finally been delivered to the First Nations of Canada for the treatment of innocent children at residential schools across the land.

An upcoming presentation co-hosted by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the Sunshine Coast Community Food Action Initiative will try to place the Coast's local food movement in a province-wide frame of reference.

While five youths from the Sunshine Coast are in for a summer of French-Canadian culture and language immersion, their Quebeçois counterparts will arrive here to live and work in our community.

Starting as soon as Monday (June 16), Island Timberlands plans to apply pesticides to kill maple and alder trees on its privately owned lands north of Cliff Gilker Park, near the B&K logging road in Roberts Creek.

Coastal Link Ferries (CLF) engaged the public last Thursday in Gibsons to see if the passenger ferry service they are proposing is a viable travel option for the Coast.

School District No. 46 (SD46) is facing school reconfiguration, and superintendent Deborah Palmer is inviting the community to get involved in the resolution process. "It's exciting.