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Organizers of the Bodhisattva Boot Camp have offered 10 workshops over a summer agenda.

Ferry commuters may be getting a tax break. The federal Conservative government has an-nounced that as of July 1, public transit users with monthly passes, including local ferry users, will be eligible for a tax credit.

With one week to go until the Gibsons Sea Cavalcade festival, the Town of Gibsons and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) have jointly issued a swimming advisory at Armours Beach Park after discovering unusually high levels of fecal coliform co

It was a whirlwind tour recently for the Choralations Children's Choir of School District No. 46. They arrived in Ottawa on a Wednesday and most of them returned the following Sunday.

The Sunshine Coast is in mourning after two well-known girls from Gibsons were killed in a tragic two-car accident on Hwy. 101 Wednesday morning.

Silverback, a 400-acre, 1,600-unit development that could potentially increase the population of Sechelt by 50 per cent, met with public resistance at this week's District of Sechelt planning meeting.

The Sechelt Indian Band's (SIB) application to the province to keep the Crown land at Egmont Point a protected area now has the support of the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD).

Last Friday saw the Sunshine Coast's inaugural Critical Mass bike ride take placein Roberts Creek.The ride followed adecade old tradition of getting people back on the streets - with butts on bikes, much copied in cities and towns all over the world.

On Monday, July 17, the Lagoon Society will hold its AGM and summer celebration at the Iris Griffith Centre at 7 p.m. The Lagoon Society would like to notify its members that they will be proposing changes to the Society constitution.

From fountain to lily pond, from fish pool to grotto, the fourth annual garden tour organized by the S.C. Botanical Garden Society last Sunday toured over 160 participants to eight of the Coast's residential gardens.