Local News

Sechelt firefighters stopped a suspicious blaze on Sechelt Elementary School grounds last Sunday. The call came in at 1:01 p.m.

A Squamish pilot suffered only minor bruises from ditching an ultralight airplane into the water west of Thormanby Islands after experiencing engine trouble early Sunday afternoon, according to the Halfmoon Bay Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Changes are in store for Sunshine Coast's cable television operator. Last Friday, John Thomas, president of Coast Cable Communications Ltd. (Sunshine Coast) and Delta Cable Communications Ltd.

A broken BC Hydro pole resulted in more than 1,300 customers in downtown Sechelt and West Sechelt losing power early Wednesday morning as crews worked to fix it.

The mayor of Sechelt and chief of the Sechelt Indian Band met with provincial ministers recently to discuss building a new sewer plant down the hill from the existing near-capacity plant on Dusty Road.

A faint light from a cell phone helped save two Van-couver boaters recently. Wayne Skinner who operates Seatow, the BCAA on the water in Gibsons, got a call on Aug. 2 of two boaters in trouble.

On Saturday, Aug. 19, the Sunshine Coast Astronomy Club hosts its second annual Astronomy Day in the Park in Porpoise Bay Provincial Park. Last year's event attracted over 750 visitors from as far away as Washington and Oregon.

Emergency crews had a busy holiday weekend responding to numerous incidents. Late Sunday night, Sunshine Coast RCMP, Sechelt fire department and B.C.

Editor's note: This is part four 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. Day four is another light paddling day.

Sechelt Indian Band members voted overwhelmingly against Pan Pacific Aggregates' mining proposal in last Saturday's referendum.