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Councillors in Sechelt are welcoming the changes being proposed in a major overhaul of the district’s development procedures bylaw, which includes a chance to give an early yes or no to big projects.

Chemical storage facility Sechelt councillors voted at their Oct. 3 meeting to change a recommendation from the public works committee on the contract to design a chemical storage facility for the Water Resource Centre.

Wormy Lake is a step closer to being renamed to honour John Phare, a tree faller who was killed fighting a wildfire near the lake in 2015.

Four candidates standing for mayor and eight vying for councillor will crowd the podium at the All Candidates Forum hosted by Gibsons & District Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Oct. 9 starting at 6 p.m. sharp. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

An update on engineering and operations for Sechelt’s public works, parks and environment committee last week prompted Coun. Doug Wright to, once again, criticize the lack of progress on big capital projects.

A Gibsons community association’s efforts to have the BC Supreme Court overturn a zoning approval was due to be back in court in Vancouver Oct. 5.

More than 200 people have signed a petition calling on the Town of Gibsons to abandon plans to build an affordable housing project on the Charman Creek Lands, an area between the foot of Shaw Road in Upper Gibsons and Stewart Road in Lower Gibsons.

The rupture happened when Andrea Timmins was 25. She was snowboarding down a run at Blackcomb mountain on Christmas eve when she was hit with extreme tunnel vision, a severe headache and saw stars.

Two candidates have withdrawn their names as candidates for School District No. 46 Board of Education trustee while another has expressed his desire to withdraw. As of Sept.

Roger Lagassé is moving out of the classroom and into politics in a bid to unseat incumbent Robert Joncas and become South Coast trustee for School District 93, B.C.’s French school district, also known as Conseil scolaire francophone (CSF).