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The Sunshine Coast Community Forest draft operating plan was released this week and the public has until mid September to view the plan, comment on it and suggest any changes.

Canada World Youth (CWY) is coming back to the Coast this September. This year's program has an eco-leadership component to help teach Canadian and African youth how to build a sustainable tomorrow.

The RCMP Forest Crimes Investigation Unit is investigating a suspicious forest fire in Halfmoon Bay last Friday -the most recent of a string of suspect fires near Trout Lake. The fire, reported to the B.C. Forest Service just after 7 p.m. on Aug.

Cops for Cancer events held on the Coast in the past two weeks have raised over $11,400 for pediatric cancer research with donations still coming in. "We celebrated all day Sunday after the events were complete.

The fate of the Coast's only drop-in centre for people with mental illness lies in the hands of the community this week.

Residents of Gibsons, West Howe Sound and Elphinstone will be casting their votes Nov. 18 on whether to form into a new municipality, but the structure of the vote count has yet to be decided. Ida Chong, B.C.

Gibsons residents packed into council chambers Tuesday night for the continuation of a public hearing for a zoning amendment bylaw to allow for a new 10-unit condo development along the waterfront. The hearing started on Aug.

Editor's note: This is part five of Cathie Roy's diary, a seven-part series on the recent Pulling Together canoe voyage designed to bring together First Nations, youth and police forces.

A 33-year-old motorcyclist from Coquitlam died last Thursday after flying off his motorcycle into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on Highway 101 in the south Pender Harbour area, according to Sunshine Coast RCMP.

Longtime Sunshine Coast resident Jean Clarke's donation to the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation (SCCF) is the seed for the first family-directed endowment of the foundation.