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Save on your energy bill this holiday season
Spend your money this holiday season on family, friends and all the great activities you have planned and not on electricity. BC Hydro is sharing eight simple tips that help save energy during the holidays. 1. LED lights use 90 per cent less electricity than regular lights, allowing you to light your tree for about ... Read More »
Wrapping up your home for the holidays
One thing that I find at this time of year if you have someone out looking at homes, they are a buyer ready to buy In the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Clark Griswold may have gone a little overboard with his Christmas lights, but if he was selling his house, he may have had ... Read More »
Live, learn and grow your own food with One Straw Society
One Straw Society based Live & Learn Program celebrates three years of strengthening local food security and community connectedness. Since 2010, Live & Learn, its staff and volunteers have been committed to empowering individuals in the lower Sunshine Coast with unique food based knowledge and skills. In the past three years Live & Learn has ... Read More »
District principal appointment
Patrick Bocking, Superintendent of Schools for School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast) is pleased to announce that Vanessa Clarke has been appointed to the position of District Principal, Student Support Services effective February 1, 2013. Dan Galazka, currently District Principal of Student Support, will be assuming responsibilities with the Delta School District at that time. Ms. ... Read More »
Market update for November
Detached listings There are 533 current detached listings and 450 sales year-to-dates. The current market’s hot price range is between $301,000 and $400,000, with the 138 of the sales occurring in this price range. With the current pace of sales this represents a 13 month supply of listings. Comparing the previous year’s detached sales, in ... Read More »
Prohibition from the producer’s perspective
Lawless is a film set in the early 30’s in Franklin County, Virginia, and based on the historical novel The Wettest County in the World, by Matt Bondurant, grandson of our three protagonists, the infamous Bondurant brothers, who were colourful and notorious bootleggers. It is about prohibition but set up from the producer’s perspective. The ... Read More »
Inaugural Holiday Hustle 5K
This musical and Christmas-themed event is a fundraiser for the Chatelech Band Hawaii Tour 2013, as well as a collection point for donations to the Elves Club Christmas Hampers. Start at the Sechelt Aquatic Centre on Sunday, December 9 at 9:30am. There’ll be live music, Christmas goodies, lots of prizes and fun for the entire ... Read More »
RCMP will be writing up their naughty and nice list
The Sunshine Coast RCMP encourage the public to call 911 to report suspected impaired drivers. Provide police dispatchers with the licence plate, vehicle description and the reason you suspect the driver is impaired. Expect to see the Sunshine Coast RCMP out in force over this holiday season, ensuring the roads are safe. Police are urging ... Read More »
