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As anyone who follows me on Facebook knows, I have had a love affair with mushrooms this fall. (Okay, obsessed.) It occurred to me the other day as I stumbled on a fairy patch of bellybutton hedgehogs under falling snow – just before dark on a logging road in the middle of nowhere – that [...]
Deanna Cartea is one of my favourite Coast musician. I stumbled across her remarkable sound during a summer Music in the Landing event in lower Gibsons, where she was playing in the back lane behind the Molly’s Lane Market. A handful of people were ringing her in white resin chairs – the perfect stationary vehicle [...]
Yes, it’s that time again… civic elections have rolled around again for the Sunshine Coast. There’s plenty of places to get the Election News – of a kind – and a lot of buzz on Facebook. Duane Burnett has also been steadily adding content to his Sunshine Coast lifestyle hub that make for interesting reading. [...]
A major difference between living in the metropolis of Vancouver and the towns and villages of the Sunshine Coast can be summed up in one short phrase: elbow room. On the roughly 150km of highway running from Langdale right up to Lund, visitors or new residents will see expansive ocean and forest, often large residential [...]
Sechelt, June 2011 – You’ll never guess what’s happening in the east end of the Trail Bay Mall. Kids from 2-15 – pardon me, artists – and their parents, have discovered 4 Cats Art Studio and entered into another world. From what I would call chaos in my home, young artists are learning through a [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell Webmaster Laurie McConnell, right, with partner Diane Mueller Did you know the Sunshine Coast is one of the most queer-friendly rural areas in BC? This rural region, stretching from Howe Sound to Desolation Sound, has a unique psychological climate – especially for the stretch running from Langdale to Earl’s Cove – [...]
from the Sunshine Coast Jazz & Entertainment Society Another packed event despite chilly winds After getting hailed on at Sargeant Bay on Saturday, April 16, I suppose one should be thankful for sunshine – even if one needed a down jacket for this annual Creeker celebration! Down along the road leading up to the mandala, [...]
Click here for the larger PDF Newsletter showing expansion details. This page is dedicated to all the news and events relating to the expansion of St. Mary’s Hospital in Sechelt. St. Mary’s serves the Sunshine Coast from Port Mellon to Egmont and is currently undergoing a $44 million expansion/renovation project that will enable the hospital [...]
So here’s a random look at YOUR Sunshine Coast, from Howe Sound to Desolation Sound. Cool graphic, eh? This little image is called a ‘wordle‘, and the code is based on the Google App Engine, and was created by a guy who wrote the core of the program during the course of his job at [...]
In order to build affordably priced seniors housing on the Sunshine Coast, Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities has decided to seek a new site rather than pursue development of the waterfront site beside Snickett Park. Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities, an experienced owner, developer and manager of seniors housing, is pleased to let the Sunshine Coast residents [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell Sunshine Coast author Deanna Proach’s first novel, Day of Revenge, is a credible start to a promising writing career. Set in revolutionary France, the novel follows the lives of a group of Loyalists determined to fight the Revolutionaries, who are growing more paranoid and erratic by the day. The book centres [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell All across the Sunshine Coast this week schools have been rolling out their festive extravaganzas… high school band concerts, Christmas pageants, elementary school showcases. Going by the over-capacity crowd at West Sechelt Elementary School tonight (the principal apologized for the lack of chairs and said there would be more next year, [...]
by Laurie McConnell Editor/Publisher, Bigpacific.com UPDATE: If you live on the Sunshine Coast, visit here, work here or are involved in similar concerns in your own community – regardless of whether you are an environmentalist/community activist, or a forestry sector worker – this issue should concern you. Please make every effort to learn about it [...]
Organizers pronounced the First Annual Sunshine Coast Art Crawl a huge success, with some galleries seeing as many as 250 visitors through in a single weekend. The ‘hub/bead’ concept was very popular, with some visitors coming from Powell River just to collect the four additional beads for their crawl bracelets from the hubs of Madeira [...]
A feel-good homegrown story for all small rural communities in BC: Gibsons performing artist Deanna Cartea has been signed by Citation Records in Los Angeles, California and is recording her first album. Deanna Cartea from Laurie McConnell on Vimeo. Bigpacific.com first stumbled across this evocative artist when strolling past Molly’s Lane after dinner along the [...]
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