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Seven-year-old Jaden was sitting quietly amongst the moss and ferns near the Iris Griffith Centre. He wrote in his journal, "There are so many trees above us and they protect us but then they drop their rain drops on us.

District of SecheltMayor (1)Cameron Reid - 1527Adrian Belshaw - 1049 Councillor (6)Warren Allan - 1333Darren Inkster - 1305Ed Steeves - 1288Michael J.C.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) reversed its motion for any recreation facility donations to go toward reducing the overall cost to the taxpayer and would instead now go to cost overruns to make sure the facilities are designed as promise

Next to the municipal election, the hottest topic in Gibsons and the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) areas E and F is a study of the restructuring of the three areas.

There is contention over two of the Coast's watersheds being included in a proposed community forest tenure.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) representatives met with seniors this week in Gibsons to discuss the St. Mary's Hospital expansion and the upcoming Christensen Village facility for seniors, in an effort to open communication.

After over three and a half months of walking the picket line, a Sechelt commuter's struggle to keep her job at a Telus centre in Burnaby will likely end with the centre closing down.

Dutch school children singing O Canada led to the answer to a question that had plagued a Canadian veteran for 50 years.

The Sechelt Indian Band's Tsain-Ko Shopping Centre next to Extra Foods in Sechelt is well underway in bringing new businesses to the site, including Starbucks, a beer and wine store, an A&W, a dollar store, an insurance agency and a movie store.

When Canadians from the Regina Rifle Regiment landed at Normandy on D-Day, 1944, Frank Proctor was there. Years later when he wrote his memoirs, edited by his daughter Pamela Proctor of Gibsons, he was to use that experience for a title, I Was There.