Local News

A missing MP, Canadian culture and bumbling bureaucrats headlined the final local appearance of the candidates for the June 28 federal election.

John Reynolds, the incumbent Conservative MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, was on the hot seat during the June 19 all-candidates' meeting in Sechelt.

If you take a walk to the end of Inlet Avenue behind the Community Services building, you'll find the garden that love built. The garden, an oasis of calm and beauty in the heart of Sechelt, is flourishing.

Two men caught on the beach in East Porpoise Bay May 17 with 630 clams illegally harvested from a sewage-contaminated beach have been fined $1,000 each.

Local businessman Kevin Davie has been elected director of the British Columbia Lung Association. Davie has been a part of the organization for the past two years. He first came to the association as a representative from the Sechelt Rotary club.

The forest fire season is here and the B.C. Forest Service is getting prepared. Campfires have been banned for all areas within the Coastal Fire Centre. These bans went into effect as of midnight, June 24.

The Big Bike is rolling our way again. Find 29 friends and go for the ride of your life on June 25. A major fund-raiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the bike's been coming to the Coast since 1998.

A family in Gibsons thought they were prepared for the possibility of a house fire but found out they weren't as prepared as they thought last Saturday.

The Friends of the Sechelt Public Library hosted a special Coffeehouse on June 9 to celebrate and congratulate the winners of the 2004 Writing Contest.

Tuition costs, gay marriage and space weapons were all on the agenda June 11 when candidates for four parties met with students at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt. The Chatelech Peace Group organized the all-candidates' meeting.