Local News

A tiff over funding for the Sechelt Public Library has divided the Sunshine Coast Regional District Board and raised the spectre of a legal battle between the library and the SCRD.

Calling around to the elders of the community to research the history of Roberts Creek Community Hall, I discovered that in the early 1940s, the hall held a dance every Saturday.

Chatelech Secondary School has had a busy year educating 850 students in the midst of major construction. But as Phase 2 of the $8 million project nears completion, the crowding at the school is finally easing up.

Volunteers in Canada, the U.S., Australia, the U.K. and Switzerland will record elders' and veterans' memories during Personal History Awareness Month.

Police seized more than 17 grams of cocaine and a "significant number" of ecstasy tablets during the arrest of a 19-year-old man in Sechelt May 5. According to Sunshine Coast RCMP Const.

The provincial government's recent move to legislate hospital workers off picket lines and into a negotiated settlement package has some furious and others relieved.

Students from Roberts Creek Elementary School were getting practical use of their French skills this week as they hosted 28 students from Quebec in the Creek.

Hersey Sewell of Sechelt was a leader from very early days. The man whom his wife, Donna Sewell, calls a "quiet, gentle giant," full of kindness and patience, passed away Jan. 31, on his birthday, of pancreatic cancer.

Cadets from the local Air Cadet squadron recently took a trip to Abbotsford to put their skills into practice at the annual gliding event. Cadets travelled to the event May 2 where everyone got a chance to try gliding in air cadet gliders.

Sechelt fire chief Bill Higgs is urging people to have their chimneys cleaned at least once a year after a chimney fire in Wilson Creek caused extensive damage to a home last week.