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Royal Canadian Legion Roberts Creek Branch #219 has been recognized for achieving the highest membership increase in 2004 of all Legion branches in British Columbia. Membership increased some 45 members in one year.

Editor's note: This is the third of a three-part series on drugs, alcohol and youth on the Sunshine Coast. Last week we asked what's missing in our support for youth with alcohol and drug problems and what can we as a community do.

Floods and mudslides swept the Coast this week, leaving at least one family temporarily without a home.

Almost 50 people spent last Sunday afternoon learning about the Adopt-a-Village tsunami relief initiative spearheaded on the Sunshine Coast by Angela Pressburger, Michael Siddall and Natasha Rosewood.

The lack of affordable housing is a growing crisis on the Sunshine Coast, but there are ways for the community to tackle the problem. That was the consensus at last Saturday's forum on affordable housing, entitled Looking for Home.

Do you know what your kids are doing on a Friday night? Ask them! For Sunshine Coast Youth aged 13 to 18, Nights Alive provides a safe alternative to the stereotypical Friday night street scene.

After almost two years of community effort, the Egmont and District Volunteer Fire Department is becoming a reality. The aim is to have a functioning fire department in the spring of 2006.

A Powell River man died in a horrific crash in Davis Bay Wednesday night. His pickup truck jumped a concrete barrier and hit a tree so hard that the truck was smashed to pieces and the tree was uprooted. The driver died immediately from the impact.

Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series on youth, drugs and alcohol on the Sunshine Coast.

The Creek collected coins and cash totalling well over $12,000 for tsunami relief efforts last weekend.