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'Basically, my whole purpose was to bring people in neighbourhoods together,' Amber Lidstone reflects as she retires. The new owners of the Wandering Wonders ice cream truck plan to carry on the tradition.

Selma Park Road will be closed between Highway 101 and Benner Road from about 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 23 to 25. 

The incidents took place on Aug. 15 and 16, between 10 and 11:30 p.m., in the 300 block of Gower Point Road, said an Aug. 21 press release. A 39 year-old man was arrested and faces multiple charges.

Operational meetings between Sunshine Coast Community Forest and Elphinstone Logging Focus have come to a halt.

As other B.C. municipalities make the news for council dysfunction, Sechelt council is implementing a new code of conduct.

‘Twas a lovely weekend for a spot of tennis as the 48th annual Sunshine Coast Open Tennis Tournament commenced Friday afternoon, starting with the first-round matches of the mixed doubles and men’s singles draws.

The Art & Words Festival, organized by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society, this year grew to include a race for book awards that drew involvement from publishers across the country.

Theoretically, there should be a maximum number of birds around at this time of the year as the population spikes after springtime breeding. However, because birds are silent at this time of the year, they are much harder to detect.

Matthew Douglas, a teenage UBC political science student and graduate of Chatelech Secondary School, completed a solo bicycle crossing from Vancouver to Halifax just before the summer solstice. The trip took 46 days of peddling, including a few days’ rest in Montreal.

Now known as xwesam/Roberts Creek Community Association