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The Sunshine Coast Community Coalition played host to five of the six candidates in the upcoming federal election at a public forum in Gibsons Wednesday night.

Sechelt boat builder Larry Westlake has long been fascinated with the traditional West Coast rowboat design known as a handliner: a sleek, double-ended boat which is fast, seaworthy and beautiful.

Students at Chatelech Secondary School raised more than $2,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society and donated more than 126 inches of hair that will be made into wigs for chemotherapy patients during their Hair For Cancer campaign that wrapped up June 4

Health officials have declared an East Porpoise Bay home unfit for human habitation after the landlord discovered what appeared to be an illegal methamphetamine laboratory on June 5 and informed police.

Parents and teens alike turned out in force for the annual Fine Arts night at Elphinstone Secondary School in Gibsons on June 3.

Sechelt will host a team of 20 young people from Canada and China on a Canada World Youth (CWY) exchange program from August to December.

After a decade of planning, the Sunshine Coast's new, $7 million water treatment plant on Chapman Creek officially opened June 4.

Owners Chuck and Liz Ashton of Photo Works in Trail Bay Mall are dealing with a $12,000 loss after thieves smashed their front window and took off with film and digital cameras this week.

A day of four-by-four adventure turned tragic June 5 when a 23-year-old Sechelt man died in an accident on the Gray Creek logging road near Tuwanek.

Michelle McBratney hopes people on the Coast will think about adoption and rethink the old stereotypes that go along with the word. "A lot has changed over the years with adoption.