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Michael Matthews, who suffered severe brain injuries from a baseball bat attack during a New Year's Eve party on Mason Road in 2003, is suing the party hosts and guests.

A trip to India to immunize children has become a mission for local Rotarians. Sheila Pope, Brenda Wilkinson and Heather Blackwood recently travelled to Delhi, India, to help administer polio vaccine to thousands of children at risk of the disease.

It's a good time to put your house up for sale. The average detached home on the Coast has gone up in value an estimated 29 per cent from this same time last year.

As part of the celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, the Arts Council is hosting a cheese tasting on Saturday, April 24, at the Arts Centre at 7 p.m.

Margo Grant and Suzette Willcox were looking for a challenge, and it seems they have found it. The Halfmoon Bay friends are getting set to conquer Mt. Kilimanjaro, a more than 19,000 foot high peak in Tanzania, in eastern Africa.

The Sunshine Coast Regional District has trimmed its 2004 budget so total property taxes will increase by only half a per cent over the 2003 tax level.

Designs submitted by artists Nadina Tandy and Sheila Williams, both Gibsons-area residents, have been selected by the Orcas in the City project.

The Sunshine Coast Regional Health District (SCRHD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Vancouver Coastal Health and two regional hospital districts in the Coast Garibaldi area to ensure effective, efficient and accountable planning a

The name Blair Wilson is about to become a little better known in Sea to Sky Country, the Sunshine Coast and the North Shore.

Chieri Uegaki, author of Suki's Kimono (illustrated by Montreal's Stéphane Jorisch), says she is happy and overwhelmed to be short-listed for the 2004 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award.