Jan. 12: “Absolutely follow your passion… If you’re passionate, I think the lines between volunteering and living and working kind of blur into one sort of big picture.”
– Tony Greenfield on being awarded the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers
Feb. 16: “Why can’t you blow up Chapman Lake? Because it’s in a provincial park. Why is it in a provincial park? So you can’t blow it up.”
– Lorne Lewis on the controversial Chapman Lake drawdown project
April 13: “What Nick did is help educate me … to appreciate what’s just a stone’s throw away and to discover how valuable our ocean and marine life is. He opened up my eyes.”
– Gerry Zipursky on the official opening of the Nicholas Sontagg Marine Education Centre at the Gibsons Public Market
May 11: “You can’t really put a cost on the environment, can you?”
– Troy Callewaert on withdrawing plastic straws from the shelves of the Madeira Park IGA
June 1: “It doesn’t matter where you’re from – if you have a big enough drive and you’ve got heart and determination, you can do anything you put your mind to.”
– Ryan Dempster on his induction to the BC Sports Hall of Fame
July 13: “We were driving for half an hour and then I realized, oh god, I’m getting flown to grad.”
– Tyler Muryn of the Chatelech drag racing team on qualifying for a national competition and having to get back from the race to grad celebrations.
Aug. 3: “This kind of pressure we’re seeing on shellfish alone seems to be expanding on the Sunshine Coast. There seems to be more spillover from Vancouver.”
– Monte Bromley on a DFO enforcement blitz that led to $14,000 in fines
Aug. 31: “Climate change is upon us and this is the results of what we’re seeing. Our world is changing.” – SCRD CAO Janette Loveys on the imposition of Stage 4 water restrictions
Sept. 21: “I am confident another mayoral candidate will come forward who is better prepared than I am right now to lead our community into the next four years. I hope to be in a position again to do so myself one day.”
– Silas White on withdrawing his candidacy for mayor of Gibsons just ahead of his presumed acclamation
Oct. 12: “The moment in history for genuine reconciliation is before us all. Today is a symbol of that first step and to the shíshálh Nation, I thank them for their patience and for their endurance through very difficult times.”
– Premier John Horgan on signing a reconciliation accord with the shíshálh Nation
Oct. 26: “This is quite surprising. I really didn’t feel this coming.”
– Bruce Milne on the municipal election that saw the defeat of him and all the incumbent candidates running in Sechelt
Nov. 9: “I opposed the VCH-Trellis deal from the very beginning ... but to be fair, I also have to consider how dire the long-term care situation is on the Sunshine Coast.”
– MLA Nicholas Simons after the advocacy group Protect Public Health Care called on him to ‘renew opposition’ to a proposed private long-term care facility
