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Residents were out in force Tuesday night at the Gibsons Legion to voice their concerns over the Upper Gibsons Neighbourhood Plan.

The Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) council decided Monday it will hold a referendum among Band members on the question of whether to approve or oppose Pan Pacific Aggregates' proposed mining operations within the Sechelt Nation's traditional territory.

You can walk. You can run. You can crawl. The inaugural 5k Granny Run is ready to go Saturday, May 13, at 10 a.m. from the Sechelt Seniors' Activity Centre. Entries are accepted from male, female, young or old.

Sechelt's budget is going up this year by about $292,690 to pay for things such as wage and salary increases, inflation and property maintenance, but the average homeowner in the District will pay less in municipal taxes.

More people than in the past four years combined showed up for South Pender Harbour Waterworks District's (SPHWD) recent annual general meeting.

A 21-year-old Sechelt man will serve a further year and a half in jail, on top of the nine months already served, for committing a string of robberies in downtown Sechelt in 2004 and 2005.

There are a number of volunteer groups poised to offer emergency help to the people of the Sunshine Coast, but they need more volunteers. "We need volunteers badly.

"Bring Kleenex," is Ed Hill's succinct advice for the novice planning to take part in Pulling Together. The annual canoe voyage began as a way to bridge the gap between Native people and police. Hill, a retired RCMP S/Sgt.

The Lagoon Society presents the seventh annual Wood Duck Festival at Ruby Lake this Sunday. The event has something for the whole family running from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 7.

A Sunshine Coast RCMP corporal has arrived in Sudan to join a peacekeeping mission with the United Nations. Cpl.