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A two-piece ocean survival suit is no match against Mother Nature in January, but willpower and good Samaritans are. Sunday morning didn't exactly go the way Dave Sanford hoped it would, but ended the way everyone prayed it should.

Sunshine Coast RCMP arrested David Kennerley, 24, of Sechelt on Jan. 16. He was found to be in possession of a loaded .22-calibre double barrel handgun.

The recent announcement that forest stewardship plans (FSP) and cutting permits for Sechelt Community Projects Inc. (SCPI) have been approved is drawing criticism and action by the Sunshine Coast Conservation Asso-ciation (SCCA).

The majority of citizens at a recent public information meeting for Pacific Spirit Properties were opposed to the height, size and placement of the six-storey building that would sit upon the last substantial piece of waterfront property in Sechelt.

For most of us, a trip to Mexico is a chance to lie in the sun and do nothing for several days or weeks. And that's really all local woman Maureen McBeath had in mind in 2005 when her parents invited her to their timeshare in Mazatlan.

The diversity of Pata-gonian birds will come alive at the next meeting of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society (SCNHS). Bodhi and Mudito Drope will be the guest speakers at the meeting set for Friday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Sechelt council has decided to defer a decision on whether to allow a new subdivision along Sechelt Inlet Road to hook up to the sewer system.

Since receiving a balmy one-and-a-half million dollars over three years to help solve safety concerns on Highway 101, representatives from the Ministry of Transportation (MoT) sat in on this week's transportation advisory committee.

The Community Resource Centre in Sechelt is offering a new social and educational series that will become a resource lending library for groups and individuals to use after the initial presentation.

Federal politicians in the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding don't need an election to face off against each other.