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Hospital cooks, aides face layoffs

More layoffs are coming at St. Mary's Hospital in Sechelt, with 26 cooks and dietary aides facing unemployment. The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) has decided to contract out food services to a private company for hospitals in this region.
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Grittner steps down as secretary-treasurer

More than 30 years of dedicated service to the education field will come to a close at the end of the month for Kelly Grittner.
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Acrobat visits the Creek

A performer who toured as an acrobat with Le Cirque du Soleil for two years will visit the Coast to give a circus tricks workshop especially for kids, followed by a performance for all ages.
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Teacher-student affair produces baby boy

Five years after their teacher-student affair began, Heather Ingram and Dusty Dickeson are parents of a two-month-old boy named Phoenix and their story is being featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show.
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Police investigating violent home invasions

Sunshine Coast RCMP have arrested and charged six suspects in connection with a violent home invasion last Friday in Gibsons. Police are also investigating a similar incident which also took place last Friday, this time in Sechelt.
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Goldsmith makes run for Green Party

Town of Gibsons councillor Andrea Goldsmith announced this week she is seeking the Green Party nomination for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast in the next federal election.
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MP takes pay cut to promote Harper leadership campaign

John Reynolds, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, is stepping down from a post that pays him an extra $42,000 a year. Reynolds is no longer opposition house leader after leaving the post and tendering his resignation on Monday.
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Lutes seeks NDP candidacy

CUPE 801 president Alice Lutes has filed papers to become the next federal New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast.
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Seascape meeting postponed again

For the second time since December, the District of Sechelt has postponed a special planning meeting to discuss revised landscaping and architectural plans for the proposed Seascape Crescent condominium project on Sechelt's Trail Bay waterfront.
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Camp Goodtimes bids farewell

After close to 20 years of fun in the summer sun, Camp Goodtimes is leaving Camp Byng in Roberts Creek for a new home in Maple Ridge. The Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon Division, made the announcement just before Christmas.
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