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Focused on empowering the economically disadvantaged, the Sunshine Coast’s Community Resource Centre has announced the launch of its Community Legal Advocacy program.

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BC Ferries says work will begin Monday to repair the damage to the pontoon at Langdale terminal’s Berth 1. The structure was damaged when it was hit by the Queen of Surrey as it was coming in to dock on March 16.

The former owners of Gibsons Recycling Depot kicked off retirement in 2017 by driving across Canada in an electric vehicle, armed with a small electric composter to prove such a waste-free trip is possible.

Its name could use a bit of marketing work, but a pale grey orca calf known simply as T46B1B is causing quite a stir off B.C.’s coast.

Between 1898 and 1908 Emily Carr travelled a number of times up and down British Columbia’s coast painting First Nations people, villages, totem poles and our forests of giant trees.

It was begrudgingly backed by some directors the first go around and when it came back to the board for final approval, uncertainty gripped the board again.

The District of Sechelt will be receiving $1 million to resurface and extend the runway at the municipally owned airport. Sechelt was one of 16 regional airports to get funding in the latest round of B.C. Air Access Program (BCAAP) grants.

A hearing date has been set for the O’Shea-Oceanmount Community Association’s (OOCA) BC Supreme Court petition seeking to quash the zoning amendment for the Eagleview Heights project in Gibsons.

Sunshine Coast RCMP Cops for Cancer riders Const. Dustin Shevchenko and Const. Chris Mager will be looking to make some arrests in the Sechelt area for a Jail N bail fundraiser on June 7.