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The deadline for the referendum on proportional representation has been extended one week to Dec. 7.

Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons says he’s been working to ensure decision makers in Victoria know about the need for a winter season homeless shelter in Gibsons to supplement the 20-bed shelter in Sechelt.

The Sunshine Coast Regional Economic Development Organization (SCREDO) is absorbing another previous initiative. SCREDO announced Nov.

Sunshine Coast RCMP reported the following for Nov. 9 to 17: Theft from Jobsite • Between Nov.

Councillors in Gibsons are working their way through applications from four prospective cannabis retailers, including one that’s now close to getting a provincial sales licence.

A boil water advisory was issued for the Eastbourne water system on Keats Island on Nov. 9. The advisory was lifted on Nov. 19.

On Nov. 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDR), 15 people gathered at Mission Point Park to memorialize those killed as a result of transphobia and to draw attention to violence against people who are transgender.

Elections BC said as of Wednesday morning about 25 per cent of eligible voters had returned their referendum ballot packages, and 12.6 per cent had been screened.

On Nov. 17, 680 A.D., Hilda of Whitby, a powerful Abbess and defender of the Celtic tradition, died and was later immortalized as the patron saint of learning and culture. Last Sunday, on Nov. 18 – one millennium and a few centuries later – St.