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The listing posted on the BC Bid website on May 13, states bids for rights to cut timber on the estimated 13 hectare site, on the slopes of Mt. Elphinstone, in the Roberts Creek area are to close June 4.

Six teenaged filmmakers from Elphinstone Secondary School were the sole Sunshine Coast team to compete in the Run N Gun 48-hour Film Competition that began on May 10.

A multidisciplinary concert and distribution of over 60 scholarships and awards before a capacity audience on May 11 brought the golden anniversary of the Sunshine Coast’s longest-running festival to a resounding conclusion.

The development proposes building one commercial building fronting Gibsons Way, and behind it three residential buildings between five and six storeys tall containing a combined 172 housing units and a daycare space.

In the past, May saw the start of annual community events on the Sunshine Coast. The first Sechelt May Day celebration, held in 1918 at the school, was organized by Gladys Tidy, the Sechelt School teacher.

Thirty residential strata units, three live-work units and a retail unit with primarily underground parking are proposed at 629 Mahan Road

Gibsons council approved a form and character development permit for a six-housing-unit, one commercial space development at 456-458 Marine Drive (next to the Bayview Szechuan Chinese Restaurant).

Also, Halfmoon Bay resident Chris Hergesheimer and his “always entertaining, high-energy Brothers in Farms will be bringing their rambunctious West Coast party music” to the May Day Dance at the Madeira Park Legion on May 18

David DePape sentenced to 30 years in prison for assailing husband of former US House speaker

Also, it’s time for another Creek community photo