Local News

A new round of funding cuts to the community living association has the executive director concerned about the future of the program. The organization, which has doubled in size in the past few years, will see 4.1 per cent slashed from its $1.

A 19-year-old man from Powell River died of severe head injuries after his car crashed in Halfmoon Bay last weekend. Marcus Haynes was driving alone, headed north on Hwy. 101.

Serendipity Preschool in Madeira Park is tucked away next to the Pender Harbour reading centre, Art Gallery and School of Music.It's a pleasant spot, next to the marina and across the street from the elementary school.

Canadian Moderns, an outstanding show and sale of abstract, semi-abstract and impressionist paintings by some of Canada's foremost artists of the past 50 years, opens at Westwind Gallery in Gibsons on Saturday, May 29, with a reception from 4 to 7 p.

Sechelt Legion members are gazing on a newly-landscaped courtyard this week after local businesses volunteered their time, materials and expertise last Saturday to beautify the area that had been neglected.

Two weeks into a strike at B.C.'s major beer distributor, local supplies of many popular beers are running dry. About 300 workers at Brewers' Distributors Limited (BDL) in New Westminster went on strike May 1, seeking better pay and benefits.

Filming is scheduled to start next week for the movie Desolation Sound, a drama starring Jennifer Beals and Ed Begley, Jr., which is being produced on the Sunshine Coast.

If you've ever gazed at an architecturally stylish cedar home or paddled past a waterfront palace, you might have wished you could knock on the door and take a peek inside. Now is your opportunity, says Patricia Hetherington.

Rumours have finally been verified by Bruce Morris of Trail Bay Development Ltd. who says Shoppers Drug Mart will be moving into Trail Bay Mall in Sechelt in the coming week.

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.