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When many people think of a brilliant scientist they picture an individual toiling in an underground lab cooking up weird experiments on a Bunsen burner. They imagine someone with an anemic complexion who has never seen the light of day.

On May 19 at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt, Sunshine Coast Alternative School students "spoke out" at the school's third annual Alternative Voices arts celebration.

Nicholas Simons, NDP candidate in the federal election, has refused to attend an all-candidates' meeting in Sechelt organized by a group called Sunshine Coast Christians in Public Affairs.

Campfire songs, costumes and a moving luminary ceremony kept participants walking for 12 hours in support of cancer research at Roberts Creek Elementary School last weekend.

Outdoor games, guiding, kayaking, climbing, first aid and leadership are all part of the new REAL (Recreational Experience and Leadership) program at the Sunshine Coast Alternative School.

Twenty members of 2963 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Army Cadet Corps will parade in an annual review ceremony on Saturday, June 5.

Tingling, numbness and paralysis were experienced by five people on the Sunshine Coast this week. The five consumed shellfish from Porpoise Bay, which was closed due to red tide and is also a designated sewage outfall area.

In an isolated community far up B.C.'s wild Pacific coast, a lonely woman learns her best friend has been sleeping with her husband. Soon after, the friend is found dead in the salt chuck behind the wheel of her turquoise Camaro.

John Reynolds, the incumbent MP for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, was a clear front-runner as the federal election campaign began last week.

At least two people ended up in hospital last Saturday night (May 22) after a group of young men allegedly used hockey sticks to attack skateboarders staying at a private campground in Pender Harbour.