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Stigmas around mental illness were joked about, laughed at and disproved at Stand Up For Mental Health, a two-hour show at the Heritage Playhouse featuring 10 comics poking fun at their own experiences with mental illness.

Tomorrow (Sept. 24), popular Vancouver garden teacher and author Judy Newton will demonstrate new ways to make beautiful arrangements from what's growing in your fall garden.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is proposing to increase the rockfish conservation areas closed to fishing by 20 per cent along the Georgia Strait to protect low levels of rockfish.

Gibsons' public works superintendent Greg Foss is this year's public work manager of the year. Foss received the award from his peers at the annual conference of the Public Works Association of B.C. (PWABC) in Salmon Arm last week.

The Coast community, including residents, local politicians, environmentalists and forest recreation users, streamed in to a public forum last Thursday with B.C. Timber Sales (BCTS).

Twelve-year-old student Daniella Donati wants to help stop poverty. She's organized a benefit concert to raise money for the cause on Oct. 9 at the Roberts Creek Hall from 2 to 7 p.m.

Both Telus and the Telecommunications Work-ers Union (TWU) have increased their manpower on the Coast since their labour dispute began in July.

Opposites attract goes the old saying. Anyone who doubts the validity of that adage has yet to meet Barbara and Norman Corbett of Gibsons. The Corbetts, who celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on Sept. 7, are definitely opposites.

Another community feast takes place at Gibsons United Church next Saturday. Thanks to the generosity of avid fisher Terry Connor, this meal will feature salmon as the entre.

Two men were arrested in Gibsons and charged with various drug related offences in two police busts last week. On Sept.