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Restrictions target social gatherings, travel, group activities and workplaces

Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue is having an unusually busy year, putting them in good company as SAR teams from across southern B.C. have been reporting a higher volume of calls.

Sechelt council voted Nov. 4 to approve a development permit, with variances, for the Lions housing project at Greenecourt but the non-profit group will not get a full waiver of development cost charges (DCC).

Nicholas Simons remains on track to be confirmed for a fifth term as the NDP MLA for Powell River-Sunshine Coast. Elections BC began the final count on Nov. 6.

RCMP members from the police force’s West Coast Marine Services will be on board some BC Ferries sailings starting this weekend. A release from the Mounties’ B.C.

Trustee Amanda Amaral was elected chair of the Board of Education for School District No. 46 (SD46) and Maria Hampvent was elected vice chair at a regular board meeting Nov. 4.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are investigating the theft of an automated emergency defibrillator (AED) from the washroom building at the Davis Bay Beach. Police said the theft likely occurred sometime on Oct. 28 or 29.

BC Ferries says it has worked with the province to change the information it’s been putting out regarding medical assured loading to “make it more clear for medical practitioners and patients.

Gibsons Coun. David Croal says there’s no “plot afoot” to permanently close the Gibsons pool and he’s hopeful a report expected to go to Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) directors Nov. 12 could lead to a December reopening.

BC Ferries says the “staffing issue” that forced the cancellation of the Queen of Surrey’s 5:25 p.m. sailing from Langdale Nov. 4 as well as one of its scheduled round-trips on the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay route was COVID-related.