Local News

The Keats Island community came together in a panic to put out a sauna fire last Saturday night. Neighbours and boaters arrived at the scene as the news of the fire spread through shouting and phone calls.

Lynne Dickson and the Music Makers adult choir are hosting a second Experience the Journey gospel music workshop and concert with Vancouver choral leaders Marcus Mosely and Gail Suderman Sept. 24 to 25.

For many of us, the dreams we have as children are soon forgotten. But that's not always the case, as a pair of Sunshine Coast sisters will attest. When Barby Paulus and Marjorie Ann Malcolm were young, they lived in Ontario.

On Saturday the Roberts Creek community celebrates Creek Daze, and the whole Coast is invited. Music, vendors, games and prizes all take place at the Roberts Creek pier starting at noon. Activities are free and fun for the whole family.

School will start on schedule in September, but later in the month teachers will vote on whether to authorize a strike.

Cara and Mike Steward and their two preschool children lost everything but the clothes they were wearing when their West Porpoise Bay home burned down Aug. 23.

A man is dead after a diving accident in Sechelt Inlet Thursday afternoon.B.C. Ambulance paramedics met a red Zodiac transporting the stricken man at the Porpoise Bay dock just before noon and brought him to St. Mary's Hospital.

Pan Pacific Aggregates and the Sechelt Indian Band council have been drafting a memorandum of understanding to establish the terms of a relationship and a working partnership between the two parties. As of Aug.

Vanessa McLean promised her sons Sam and Matthew Jackson they would have a home of their own someday.After many years of ups and downs, and thanks to Habitat for Humanity, McLean has finally made good on her promise.

Camp Sunrise is celebrating 80 years of fun, friendship and fellowship this month at the Christian campground that has hosted thousands of youth, adults and seniors from around B.C. since it opened in 1925.