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Speed limit ignored, residents say The residents of a West Sechelt neighbourhood are pleading with Sechelt Council to help them slow down speeding vehicles on two local streets.

There’s very little compliance with the 30-kilometrean-hour speed limit on Derby Road and Bligh Road, resident Nadine Coombes told Council at its Aug. 3 meeting, and the speeding has resulted in “several close calls.”

“There are 21 kids [living in homes] on lower Derby Road, there are eight children on Bligh Road,” said Coombes, a mother of three. “There are also several elderly residents and a lot of pedestrians in the neighbourhood who walk their dogs.”

In a letter Coombes presented to Council along with her oral presentation, she said “it is frightening watching vehicles speeding down

our road while children are crossing, or playing in their yards… [D]rivers do not comply and respect the speed limit.”

Coombes said it’s apparent that people using the roads assume the usual 50-kmh limit is in effect, because there are only two, poorly placed 30-kmh speed-limit signs in the neighbourhood.

“People don’t see them,” she said. “Many local residents who’ve lived there for years didn’t know the speed limit was 30.”

Most of Derby Road is steeply downhill, and is a convenient connection between Highway 101 and upper West Sechelt.

Coombes said a survey found that 57 of 59 local residents want action to increase compliance with the speed limit. Suggestions include better signage, speed

This is one of the two speed-limit signs which are located at each end of Derby Road in West Sechelt, and which residents say are too often missed, or ignored. RIK JESPERSEN PHOTO

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Coombes said the RCMP had been contacted but could offer little help, while a spokesperson for the provincial Ministry of Transportation said Derby and Bligh roads were not in the ministry’s jurisdiction.

“We’d like to reclaim our neighbourhood road,” she said. “It’s up to the District of Sechelt.”

Council unanimously agreed with a suggestion from Councillor Mike Shanks to refer the situation to District staff, “for potentially some immediate action,” and to ask them to report back with some recommendations.

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Dirt-bikes denied trail access the quiet forest environment; and the exclusion of the use of motorcycles is consistent with usage on all other trails.”

Both the Municipal Insurance Corporation—the District’s insurer—and the B.C. Ministry of Forests also opposed the inclusion of motorbikes on the rural trail, Hoglund said.

Following complaints from some trail users, signs were posted at both ends of the trail earlier this year, stating that motorbikes were not allowed.

Pauline Coughlin, who lives right by the airport end of the trail and hikes it frequently, made an impassioned plea to Council July 20 for the ban to stay in place. She’s pleased

with the Council decision. “[Dirtbikes] are motorized vehicles that are completely opposite of the intended use of those of us who walk the forest,” Coughlin said, although she sympathized with the motorcyclists. “I hope the people who are looking for trails for their dirt-bikes can find some great trails. I don’t want them to go without.”

When asked by Councillor Doug Wright how the ban would be enforced, Hoglund said she could not constantly station staff on the trail, so the District and trail users were dependent on simple good will. “We have to rely on people to do the right thing,” she said. Rik Jespersen

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A trail popular with hikers, mountain bikers and nature lovers will not be opened up to dirt-bikes, Sechelt Council has decided.

Councillors unanimously agreed to a recommendation not to include motorizedbike use on the two-kilometre Suncoaster/Chapman Creek Trail, which runs from a wooden bridge, located just beyond the top of Selma Park Road, to the airport.

The recommendation was contained in a report from District staff that took months to complete, “so that all of the groups could be heard,” said Nikii Hoglund, Sechelt’s Director of Engineering and Operations Services.

The Sunshine Coast Dirtbikers Association had requested a review of the ban, which has been in place since the Sunshine Coast Trail Society turned the trail over to the District in 2014. Association members had written letters to Council and also had appeared as a delegation at a meeting this past spring.

The recommendation was based on “a number of considerations,” Hoglund said.

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Editorial Opinion How green is hydro power?

People have harnessed energy from moving water for thousands of years. Greeks used various types of water wheels to grind grain in mills more than 2,000 years ago. In the late 1800s, people figured out how to harness the power to produce electricity. Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, hydropower has expanded, producing about 17 per cent of the world’s electricity by 2014 and about 85 per cent of renewable energy — and it shows no signs of slowing.

According to the online magazine “WaterWorld”, “An expected 3,700 major dams may more than double the total electricity capacity of hydropower to 1,700 GW within the next two decades,” — including in my home province of B.C., where the government has started a third dam on the Peace River at Site C. “Hydropower is the most important and widely-used renewable source of energy,” the U.S. Geological Survey says.

But how “green” is hydropower, and how viable is it in a warming world with increasing water fluctuations and shortages?

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions notes some large dams are used mainly for water storage or flood control with power generation an additional function, while some are used primarily to generate electricity. Small hydro such as runof-river is installed on running water and doesn’t use water stored in reservoirs.

One of the biggest trade-offs with large-scale hydro facilities is that building them often means flooding land used for farming and human communities. Damming rivers also impedes fish — even with technologies like fish ladders — and can harm wildlife habitat and alter river temperatures, dissolved oxygen levels and flows. Clearing vegetation to build a dam and flood land can release greenhouse gases. And as vegetation decays and water levels fluctuate, methane — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide — can build up and escape from reservoirs.

Ironically, although hydropower is seen as an energy source that helps slow global warming, in many areas its viability is threatened by climate change.

John Matthews, of Conservation International, and co-authors of a study in the journal “PLoS Biology” wrote that climate change puts 40 per cent of hydro development investments at risk. They recommend an approach to dams and hydro that takes climate change into account, by building projects in stages so adjustments can be made as more is known about climate patterns, or by “building with nature” rather than on top of it.

Hydropower will remain part of the clean-energy equation, but we need to find the least disruptive, most efficient methods.

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Letters to the Editor – Opinions Water: why, when?

(Re: SCRD board defence of public engagement for Chapman Lake project) SCRD Director Frank Mauro is quoted as saying that “the public had lots of opportunity to comment leading up to the adoption of the Comprehensive Regional Water Plan.” Director (and chairman) Garry Nohr stated that “All of this was presented to people up and down the Coast (when the water plan was debated).”

Did this occur? I believe not. When presented with the AAP choice, I downloaded the 2013 Comprehensive Water Plan. I could not find a single specific reference to deepening of the outlet channel by five metres. The plan focussed on the option of a floating pump station, providing a diagram, as a well as capital, operational and maintenance, and life cycle costs. The required drawdown was noted to be three metres, not five metres as currently proposed.

Alternative options to the floating pump as a near term water supply were not examined in the water plan, but were to be investigated in the future. When have the details of these options been presented to the public? Not at the spring SCRD public open house that I attended, after a decision to deepen the channel had been made by the SCRD. I support the Board in its commitment to access more water to deal with drought conditions. However, why this project versus another option? In the past, SCRD engineers recommended the floating pump as the most cost effective and environmentally sensitive approach. Why now a more costly project requiring the disruption of a larger area

of sensitive high elevation lake environment?

Those of us in the District of Sechelt who experienced the controversial sewer treatment plant project were at least presented with Council’s rationale before we voted for a $7.2M long term loan. Where is the transparency on this $5M project?

Judy Skogstad, Sechelt

‘Action needed’

My husband and I attended a District of Sechelt council meeting on August 3 and found ourselves wondering if we had stepped back in time to April, if not February, of this year.

We attended the meeting because a presentation was being made to do with the SSC Properties and we were interested in learning what progress had been made as we feel it will, if it moves forward, form a wonderful addition to our immediate community.

We left feeling very disappointed, as it would appear that no progress has been made by council who has yet to review the traffic studies that they were pressing for back in April.

Until such time as they deem it worthy of their time, I presume that they will continue to use this as an excuse for doing nothing.

It’s as if, where this development is concerned, time stands still.

We understand and support the need for proper process, particularly on a development of such magnitude, but it’s time the public had a say. After all, we’re the ones who will to be impacted (favourably or otherwise) by this new community.

Therefore we are asking for Mayor and Council to, in the case of some, check their personal feelings at

the door of District Hall and move the process along so that a Public hearing can be called and the residents of Sechelt be given the opportunity to be heard. I would think that more than enough time has passed getting to this stage. Perhaps it’s time for ‘less talk and more action’ before earning a reputation as a ‘do nothing Council’.

Carolyn Minchin, Sechelt

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One of Alliance 4 Democracy's priorities this year is lobbying for some form of proportional representation to be included in the recommendations of the parliamentary commission on electoral reform.

We are mounting a public education campaign so that people will have a chance to understand the options. We plan to be at various festivals, farmers markets and malls. We also plan to hold a public meeting in the fall and will be present at the anticipated "Town Hall" that our MP will organize.

We need help. We are a small committee with a big mandate. We need people to help with staffing info tables, creating handouts, organizing a large public meeting...

We meet (at most) a couple of times a month for a few hours. The Parliamentary committee on Electoral Reform is due to present it's report in December so the commitment is not open ended.

Please get in touch at scalliance4democracy12@ gmail.com if you have some time to give. It would be very much appreciated.

Bet Cecill, Gibsons

Ferry figures

Some comments re BC Ferries Annual Report 2015/16:

BC Ferries is boasting about an overall “On Time Performance” (90.8 per cent), but for our Rte. 3 (Langdale) it is a dismal 75 per cent. Despite their reported efforts “to improve the situation”, sailing delays of more than 30 minutes are still almost a daily occurrence.

For our Rte. 3 the earnings from operations have improved by $1.788 million and show a profit of $12.422 million. This is due to an increase in revenue of 8.2 per cent, whereof 4 per cent is due to the annual increase in fares and 4.2 per cent due to increased traffic.

Operating Expenses went up 4.39 per cent (the other major routes had an average increase of 7.03 per cent). Amortization and financing costs of $13.409 million force the positive result into a loss. However, ferry routes are part of the provincial transportation infrastructure, and if they were treated the same way as the highway system, this “cost of capital” should be taxpayer funded.

Jakob Knaus, Sechelt

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Pam GoldsmithJones MP, West Vancouver Sunshine Coast, Sea to Sky Country

It was wonderful to talk to so many people at Pender Harbour Days and the Halfmoon Bay Country Fair.

Thank you to Len Lee, Elaine Park and Frank Mauro for arranging the Pender Harbour tour by boat, thanks to Bob Fielding – derelict and abandoned vessels, barges and docks issue is a priority for the government, due in large part to the activism of our community. Transport Minister Garneau is taking responsibility for pursuing improvements to legislation.

Send me your thoughts, as I will be speaking in the House on this issue this fall.

In Halfmoon Bay the barbecue, dance and cake judging was just plain fun. Replacing the hall at Cooper’s Green is the beneficiary of funds raised. This is an important community project, which we are all working toward, together. Thank you to the Halfmoon Bay Cafe for accommodating a small group of us on short notice, for one on one conversation.

Democracy Talks Climate Solutions at the Sechelt Nation hall on July 25 was well attended. Leading local experts kicked off our discussion - Peter Treuheit and Koen Drugmand, Mobius Architecture, profiled their

passive house designed in Bella Bella. Matt Rockwell, Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association, explained the exciting bulk solar panel purchase by 17 households in Gibsons, with more to come. Jim Pawley, retired University of Wisconsin professor, offered strong advice to be bold in taking meaningful steps to address climate change.

We have held Democracy Talks Climate Solutions in Squamish, Sechelt, West Vancouver and we have one more to go on Bowen Island.

We are compiling input in these key areas: (1) Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (2) Adapting to climate change (3) Clean technology (4) Jobs and the economy.

We tried a new small group approach in Sechelt, and as a result we heard many refreshing ideas, in a very engaging format. Some suggestions are: implement a

national carbon tax, offer workforce retraining geared to clean technology and renewable energy, provide funding so communities can adapt their infrastructure, incentivize investment in renewables. We’ll provide a full report reflecting input from throughout the constituency this fall and look forward to your further feedback.

Continuing our open dialogues in areas of special interest to the community, upcoming public meetings will be at the Sechelt Nation hall, Sechelt, on September 1: • Democracy Talks: Seniors’ Strategy, 11:30am–1pm • Democracy Talks: Electoral Reform, 6–8pm Please visit our website at http://www.pgoldsmithjones.ca/ for updated event details and registration, and send me an email anytime pam.goldsmith-jones@parl. gc.ca.

Residents give chase

Early on August 4, residents in the 5700 block of Binnacle Avenue, Sechelt, reported that six or so teens were gaining access to cars parked along the street.

The residents gave chase and as the teens ran down Marine Drive, one of the teens dropped a GPS unit which was later determined to have been stolen from a vehicle parked in the

5700 block of Marine Way, Sechelt.

Other items stolen from vehicles in the area include a Canon Powershot Digital SLR camera and a pair of Nikon binoculars. Anyone with any information about these thefts is asked to contact RCMP, reference file 16-4886 Submitted by RCMP

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Habitat families move in paying 75 per cent of her income on rent, which made it impossible to provide a quality life for her two daughters and to ever have a hope of getting ahead.

While Habitat families do assume the mortgage for their homes, their monthly payments are capped at 25 per cent of their income, meaning there is money left over for good food, transportation, clothing and extracurricular activities.

Ken and Rebecca Nelson and their kids Taylor, 7, Noah, 6, Malachi, 5, Esther, 2, are another of our new Habitat families this month, and their eagerness to get a new start on their lives is plain to see.

New Habitat families are expected to log 500 volunteer hours in lieu of a down payment. Even though Ken has been working to establish his business, KSN Tiles,

the couple put in their hours in less than 16 weeks — which worked out to about 40 hours per week — the equivalent of a full time job, Rebecca says. It was definitely a labour of love for the couple. “I like that it is not a handout. It is much more gratifying when you can walk into your house and say, ‘we did that. We put those floorboards down,’” Ken says.

The Nelsons turned to Habitat after their landlord informed them he was selling their home to take advantage of rising prices, and they found other rental properties were scarce — especially for families with four young children.

Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast Village will be completed over the next few years and will house 14 families in seven duplexes.

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In 2004, the Sunshine Coast became the smallest community to form a Habitat affiliate. Now, just a dozen years later, nine local families have been given a chance to escape the cycle of poverty.

Two of the new families were at Habitat Village in early August as volunteers, doing all of the last-minute tasks required to obtain occupancy permits.

“In a very short time, I found myself going from middle class family to working class single parent,” says Zarah Gale, who just moved into her new Habitat home with her daughters, Lucia Pond, 10, and Miranda Pond, 5. Because of Zarah’s changing circumstances and the red-hot real estate market on the Coast, she says she “was suddenly priced out of rental market, even though I was working hard and I have a good job.” Zarah works for Community Futures, which offers loans to small local businesses that can’t always qualify for conventional financing — sort of like what Habitat does for families that can’t qualify for conventional mortgages.

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Events on the Sunshine Coast August 11 Opening night of the SC Festival of the Written Arts with Charles Demers, Zarqa Nawaz and Bill Richardson, Rockwood Centre, Sechelt, 8pm (festival continues Aug. 12, 13 and 14) August 12 Charlotte Wrinch, Friday Farmers’ Market, Dougall Park, Gibsons, noon-2pm August 12 Opening reception for Power of Paint exhibition and sale, Seaside Centre, Sechelt, 5-9pm (Sat. 10am-5pm, Sun. 10am-5pm) August 12 Dinner music by Sasha Kay, Roberts Creek Legion, 6pm, tips for musician August 12 Mike Machado Trio, Garden Bay Pub, 8pm (Sat. 8pm, Sun. 2pm) August 12 Coffee house with Blue Line Trio and Robin Atchison & Nelson Giles Duo, School of Music, Madeira Park, 7:30-9:30pm, $10 suggested donation August 13 Historical walking tour of Gibsons with Dale Peterson, start by visitor’s centre, Lower Gibsons, 10am, by donation August 13 Sechelt summer music presents Crook and Anagram Jazz Quartet, library lawn, noon-2pm August 13 Dinner music by Charlotte Wrinch, Chaster’s Restaurant, Gibsons, 6pm, by donation August 13 Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones, old-time music, St. Bartholomews Church, Gibsons, 7:30pm, $15, under 15 $10, under five free August 13 Playback, Sechelt Legion, 8pm, $10 August 13 Poppa Greg & the Chillin’ Dylans, Gibsons Legion, 8pm, members $5, guests $10 August 13-14 Hackett Park arts and crafts fair, Sechelt, Sat.10am-5pm, Sun. 10am-4pm. $3, seniors $2, under 12 free with an adult August 13-14 14th International Howe Sound Outrigger Race, based at Gibsons Marina and government dock, more information at clippercanoes. com/outrigger August 14 Historical walking tour of Gibsons with Dale Peterson, start by visitor’s centre, Lower Gibsons, 10am, by donation August 14 Slow Sundays in the Creek presents Double Treble, Roberts Creek, 2-3:30pm August 14 Summer planting party at Ocean Vegetables community garden, Ocean Ave. (between Medusa and Mermaid), Sechelt 3-6pm

August 15 Conservation biologist Guy McPherson speaks on global warming, Pebbles Restaurant, Sechelt, 6:30-9pm, free August 17 Dinner music by Fat Fish, Gumboot Restaurant, Roberts Creek, 6pm August 17 Fin de Fiesta Flamenco, dance and music ensemble, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 7:30pm, adults $25, students and seniors, $22, under 14 $15 August 18 Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival opens, School of Music, Madeira Park, 7pm, $30, students under 19 $15 (continues Friday, Saturday and Sunday) www.penderharbourmusic.ca August 19 Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival free concert, School of Music, Madeira Park, 1:30pm August 19 Dinner music by Grant Olsen, Roberts Creek Legion, 6pm, tips for musician August 19 Music in the Landing presents Keia Papa Kaua with Hawaiian hula dancers, gazebo on the Gibsons wharf, 7-8pm August 19 Blue Mistral Band, Garden Bay Pub, 8pm (Sat. 8pm, Sun. 2pm) August 20 Historical walking tour of Gibsons with Dale Peterson, start by visitor’s centre, Lower Gibsons, 10am, by donation August 20 Creek Daze celebration, Roberts Creek, Higgledy Piggledy Parade 11am on Roberts Creek Rd., music and events at mandela noon-5pm, robertscreekcommunity.ca August 20 Music in the Landing presents Sunshine Brass Quintet, visitors centre, Gibsons, 11am-1pm August 20 Sechelt summer music presents John Tenbear Thompson and Astral Motion, library lawn, noon-2pm August 20 Tough kegger race, Persephone Brewing, Gibsons, 2-5pm, followed by all-ages party 5-8pm, fundraiser for SC Association of Community Living, $40, under 19 free, 778-462-3007 August 20 Starlight Coast Star Party, presented by Sunshine Coast Astronomy Club, sky viewing, Sechelt Airport, 4pm-midnight, by donation August 20 Music in the Landing presents Brothers in Farms, Winegarden Park, 7:30-8:30pm August 21 Historical walking tour of Gibsons with Dale Peterson, start by visitor’s centre, Lower Gibsons, 10am, by donation

ARTS & CULTURE

Art Review Anna Nobile Freelance Creative Writer, Arts & Culture

Power of Paint returns to the Sechelt Seaside Centre for its fifth year running August 12 to 14. The popular pop-up exhibit showcases the work of the Sunshine Coast’s Eleven Equal Artists: Morley Baker, Josefa Fritz Barham, Todd Clark, Elizabeth Evans, Greta Guzek, Carol LaFave, Kim LaFave, Ian MacLeod, Cindy Riach, Nadina Tandy, and Marleen Vermeulen. What began as a core group of five artists meeting to discuss art and provide each other with critique has grown to eleven artists and includes the much anticipated annual event. It’s a lot of work to transform the Seaside Centre into a viable art gallery, but the artists feel its worth the effort. “There aren’t any (private) high quality stand alone galleries that we can submit our art to,” says Cindy Riach.

“Yet there are a lot of artists on the Coast.”

The group will gather at Seaside at 7am on Friday, the same day the exhibit opens, when the temporary walls are delivered. They will need to be assembled and painted and the lighting installed by noon. The afternoon is spent installing the art, cleaning up, and setting up for the reception that begins at 5pm. “It’s a well oiled machine,” says Greta Guzek of the set up, noting the entire event is possible because so many are involved.

The Eleven Equal Artists hold their annual Power of Paint show and sale Aug. 12-14 at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt. The artists, clockwise from upper left: Nadia Tandy, Carol LaFave, Marleen Vermeulen (blonde), Cindy Riach, Elizabeth Evans, Todd Clark. Morley Baker (holding sign), Ian MacLeod, Josefa Fritz Barham, Kim LaFave and Greta Guzek. RHONI LLOYD PHOTO “Eleven of us contribute [financially] and with that we pay for advertising, rent the centre, pay for catering, and it’s not so much because it’s divided by eleven. One person takes that on, I’m not sure you make your money back.”

Power of Paint has excellent attendance numbers with approximately 500 visitors per day, and that has translated into good sales figures. Most sales are to locals, but Riach notes they attract patrons of the Festival of the Written Arts, which takes place the same weekend. With the community being so supportive, Eleven Equal artists gives back through a bursary program for Coast high school students of the visual arts. Each artist produces five 12x12 pieces

The Blue Line Trio (with Dr. Fun on the right) entertains Aug.7 at Slow Sundays in the Creek. The weekly gathering, behind the library in Roberts Creek, features music, a market and games. PHOTO SUBMITTED

that sell for $200 each with the money raised from sales funding the bursaries. It’s an affordable way to buy original art and support four young students.

In addition, each artist produces approximately six all new works for the exhibit, all of which are for sale. “To go to Power of Paint and be sur-

rounded by 66 physical paintings, it’s a powerful thing,” says Guzek. “The power of paint!”

Power of Paint by Eleven Equal Artists runs Aug 12-14 at the Seaside Centre, Sechelt. Opening reception August 12, 5-9pm with live music by Heavy Mellow. More information at www.facebook.com/ ElevenEqualArtists

The dates for the 29th annual Hackett Park Arts & Crafts Fair are Saturday, August 13 from 10am-5pm and again on Sunday, August 14 from 10am–4pm.

The event coincides with the Festival of the Written Arts and the Power of Paint, giving visitors to Sechelt a taste of the breadth and depth of the Sunshine Coast’s artistic community and testimony to our burgeoning cultural tourism which impacts not only the artistic community but our service industry as well.

Each year Hackett Park sees between 4-6,000 visitors pass through its gates.

The fair is one of the largest juried Arts & Crafts Fairs in BC and participants come from across the province as well as the Sunshine Coast.

This year the approximately 65 vendors include 20 that are appearing at Hackett Park for the first time.

Visitors to the fair will be

entertained by some of the coasts most popular entertainers, among them Anagram Jazz Duo and singer/ song writer Joe Stanton. Children can enjoy Driftwood Players and clown, Gerardo Avila as well as make soap and get their faces painted.

New to this year’s festivities will be a beer garden featuring hand crafted beer

by Powell River’s “Townsite Brewery”.

Come visit us at Hackett Park (Trail between Dolphin & Medusa) in Sechelt.

Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors, children under 12 get in free if accompanied by an adult. For more information on this event please visit our website at www.sunshinecoast artscouncil.com. Submitted

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Lia Grainger is part of the flamenco ensemble “Fin de Fiesta” appearing Aug. 17 at the Heritage Theatre in Gibsons. At 6’2’’, Grainger played college level basketball in her hometown of Vancouver and then worked as journalist before becoming a professional flamenco dancer based in Seville, Spain. OSCAR PANTALONE PHOTO

Coast Health Celebration: all welcome You might want to mark Participants in the scramble medical equipment, facilities down the afternoon of Satur- format golf tournament— and staff development needs day, September 10 for a few who’ll get free range balls, to benefit all Sunshine Coast hours of good times. It’s the shared golf-cart, on-course residents.”

You can register for Coast Health Celebration. And games, raffles and a live aucyes, it is at the Blue Ocean Golf tion—will also enjoy all the golf today at www.sechelt Club in Sechelt, and yes, it Celebration event’s amenities hospitalfoundation.org/golftournament.

Registration does involve playing a round for the $110 entry fee.

And keep in mind, all pro- also opens at 11am on the of golf for those who want to, but it is so much more, says ceeds go to one of the best day-of, with a shotgun start at Jane Macdonald, the Executive causes on the Coast—the 12:30pm.

The Coast Health CelebraDirector of the Sechelt Hospi- Sechelt Hospital Foundation—which, as Macdonald tion gets underway at 2pm, tal Foundation.

“A big part of the Coast explained, “exists specifi- with the barbecue dinner runHealth Celebration is for peo- cally to raise funds for all the ning from 5pm to 8pm. Staff ple who don’t play golf,” Macdonald said in an interview.

“It’s going to be a party. It’s all about the ‘19th hole.’”

BURNCO Rock Products Ltd improve our approach and That’s why it’s not just behas announced it has com- build an environmentally ing called the “11th Annual pleted more than seven years responsible proposal,” said Sunshine Hospital Foundaof independent scientific Mike Powell, CEO of BURNCO. tion Golf Tournament.” This studies and has now submitThe application has been year, organizers want to inted the application to both filed with both the Provincial vite many more members of the provincial and federal (EAO) and Federal (CEAA) the community to what is the government regulators for regulatory bodies. The apfoundation’s single biggest the BURNCO Aggregate Proj- plication is available on our annual fundraiser. ect in Howe Sound (McNab project website at www.

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Virgo (Aug 23–Sep 22) A process of creative gestation continues. Yet, in other respects you have already begun to implement new modes of expression. Taking key, calculated risks is important and the impulse

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Aquarius (Jan 19–Feb 19) Your social life has expanded but now the current is direction you back to a more sober and serious focus. Financial considerations are a motivating factor. You may also feel the need to clear the clutter, whether it is stuff

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Libra (Sep 22–Oct 22) Although the urge to socialize is lingering, you have already begun to turn your focus inward. Happy to have more solo time, you may even decline invitations.

You have entered an important learning curve and it includes the paradoxical theme of unlearning. Allow and even contribute to helping old habits melt away.

Scorpio (Oct 22–Nov 21) Like it or not, you are in the spotlight now. You feel called to make meaningful contributions. Your friends are playing a pivotal role in this regard. Still, the challenge to stand your own ground remains strong. Paying dues and earning stripes is featured. Tap into your soul light and let your spirit shine.

Sagittarius (Nov 21–Dec 21) A visionary and creative spirit continues to guide your focus. Yet, you also feel compelled and determined to get to work. Practical realities are speaking, maybe even yelling. The message is largely about efficiency and linked to both finances and health. Be open to new tips, tools and techniques to provide leverage.

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