This week on Coast Reporter Radio, two big feature interviews: Sunshine Coast Regional District chair Lori Pratt joins the Coast Reporter team for a look at recent issues facing the SCRD and Kathleen Holmes, the founding artistic director of the Coasting Along Theatre Society, which made the Nutcracker a Christmas tradition on the Coast, joins arts writer Rik Jespersen.

Show Notes:

Some of our recent stories about the Sunshine Coast Regional District:

https://www.coastreporter.net/search-results-7.13938?q=Sunshine+Coast+Regional+District

Arts writer Rik Jespersen’s story on Kathleen Holmes’ decision to step down from the Coasting Along Theatre Society:

https://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment/arts-entertainment/kathleen-holmes-resigns-as-artistic-director-1.24054321

This week’s Art Beat:

https://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment/arts-entertainment/art-beat-get-out-get-down-warm-up-1.24054318

This week on Coast Reporter Radio:

You never know where the results from one of those genetic testing kits will lead – but for one Sunshine Coast teen it was somewhere unexpected.

And, with wildfires raging on Australia’s Sunshine Coast how are we improving our preparedness on this Sunshine Coast?

Show Notes:

Sophie Woodrooffe’s story on the sisters who discovered each other thanks to the gift of a genetic testing kit:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/sechelt-teen-discovers-sisters-through-genetic-testing-kit-1.24047183

One of the recent stories on the wildfire situation in Australia:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/international-news/australians-leave-homes-as-heat-winds-escalate-fire-danger-1.24049899

Soulstream brings party groove to the Creek:

https://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment/arts-entertainment/1.24049465

In this episode of Coast Reporter Radio we head down to Armour’s Beach to speak with the adult winner of the best costume contest at the Gibsons New Year’s Day polar bear dip.

Then, we head to Malcom Creek in Roberts Creek to speak with Shirley Samples, founder of the Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society to find out about their salmon count results.

Show Notes:

Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society:

https://www.coastreporter.net/community/columnists/creek-monitors-and-what-s-coming-at-frank-west-hall-1.24045502

Polar Bear Dip on New Year’s Day:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/high-tides-don-t-deter-new-year-s-day-dippers-1.24044722

This week on Coast Reporter Radio: Our new MP makes his debut in the House of Commons, and remembering former Sechelt councillor Mike Shanks, who died suddenly this week at the age of 76.

Show Notes:

Our story on the death of Mike Shanks:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/last-respects-former-sechelt-councillor-mike-shanks-dies-1.24026453

A story from our colleagues at the Whistler Pique on MP Patrick Weiler’s first month in office:

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/one-month-in-weiler-still-finding-his-footing/Content?oid=14710006

This week on Coast Reporter Radio: Why is there a picture of a fake ferry floating on a fake lake on the front page of our paper this week? We dive into the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s latest moves on the water file. And sometimes you just have to explain things as if you’re talking to a fifth grader.

Show Notes:

Sophie Woodrooffe’s story on the reservoir debate at the SCRD:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/scrd-directors-reluctantly-pursue-53-million-site-b-reservoir-option-1.24016665

Sophie Woodrooffe’s story on the expanded search for new water sources:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/scrd-directors-vote-to-expand-search-for-wells-1.24019716

Our earlier story on the BC Utilities Commission report on gas prices:

https://www.prpeak.com/still-no-explanation-of-13-cent-gas-price-differential-bcuc-1.24005884

Arts Reporter Rik Jespersen’s story on the Janelle Nadeau Ensemble will be online here staring Dec. 1:

https://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment

This week on Coast Reporter Radio:

Sechelt is treading carefully when it comes to calls regulate who can do what on a popular local wharf, and the time change debate continued at the Legislature this week, where the Green leader didn’t worry in the slightest about stomping on the government’s plan for permanent daylight time. See below for show notes:

Our story on Sechelt council’s reaction to the Davis Bay-Wilson Creek-Selma Park Community Association request to have fishing and crabbing banned at the Davis Bay wharf:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/update-community-association-wants-ban-on-crabbing-fishing-at-davis-bay-wharf-1.24015088

The original story on the Community Association’s request:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/community-association-wants-crabbing-fishing-ban-at-davis-bay-wharf-1.24008427

Our earlier story on Sechelt council’s request for more fisheries enforcement on the Coast and the Sept. 4 discussion on restricting access to the wharf:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/siegers-calls-on-fisheries-minister-to-reopen-pender-harbour-office-1.23937418

Les Leyne’s take on Green leader Andrew Weaver’s take on permanent daylight time:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/mind-bending-debate-on-time-change-strains-weaver-horgan-ties-1.24015357

Our story on pianist Kevin Kenner’s Coast Recital Society concert:

https://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment/arts-entertainment/superb-pianist-kevin-kenner-in-crs-debut-1.24015512

This week on Coast Reporter Radio:

A break from politics and hard news as we look at efforts to preserve some of the Sunshine Coast’s nautical history – real and fictional.

And, in the lead up to Remembrance Day, a Sunshine Coast woman tells us about the effort to ensure her father-in-law and his comrades are not forgotten.

Show Notes:

Our story on the arrival of the Lady Rose in Sechelt:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/lady-rose-arrives-in-sechelt-1.23999949

John Gleeson’s editorial on the purchase of the Lady Rose:

https://www.coastreporter.net/opinion/editorial/editorial-a-future-for-lady-rose-1.23965702

The video for Dave Baker’s song “Old Lady Rose” created for Island Visions, a project that features five of Baker’s songs about Vancouver Island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRCpQ0AI4U

Our story on the efforts to preserve the Persephone and Relic’s jet boat:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/councillor-looks-to-form-working-group-to-preserve-persephone-expand-museum-1.23994347

Our story on one man’s offer to repaint the Persephone, “the Nanaimo bar of boats”:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/persephone-nanaimo-bar-of-boats-needs-paint-job-beachcombers-fan-would-love-to-do-it-1.23915439

Our story about one Ontario Beachcombers fan’s pilgrimage to see the Persephone (and what he heard about the fate of the Relic’s jet boat):

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/ontario-beachcombers-fan-gets-the-inside-story-1.23370086

Some links on marine heritage from the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives:

Hubert Evans handliner: http://www.sunshinecoastmuseum.ca/fishing-for-a-living.html

Union Steamships, Blackball, and BC Ferries:

http://www.sunshinecoastmuseum.ca/marine-transportation.html

Relic's Jetboat performing their theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9boCnGu4pTw

Sophie Woodrooffe's story about efforts to get a proper memorial for the 21 RCAF members who died in a 1946 crash (live as of Nov. 9)

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/1.24002317

Details on the Vancouver Podcast Festival event Sophie Woodrooffe is moderating on Nov. 10:

https://www.vanpodfest.ca/event/panel-inside-vancouver-telling-stories-city

This week on Coast Reporter Radio:

Something from our everything old is news again file. More than three years after Vancouver Coastal Health and private sector provider Trellis Seniors Services announced plans for a new long-term care facility in Sechelt, Trellis is going to apply for a rezoning in Sechelt after failed attempts to relocate the project to Gibsons and the shishalh Nation.

And, Sophie Woodroofe checks out Halloween at Mossy Rock in the Creek.

Show Notes:

Our latest the effort to build a long-term care facility on the Coast:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/updated-trellis-proposal-returning-to-sechelt-1.23988761

Here’s a link to just some of the stories that touch on the Trellis-VCH long-term care plan we’ve done:

https://www.coastreporter.net/search-results-7.13938?q=Trellis+VCH

Our story on the latest efforts to preserve some Beachcombers history:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/councillor-looks-to-form-working-group-to-preserve-persephone-expand-museum-1.23994347

This week’s Gumboot Nation column:

https://www.coastreporter.net/community/columnists/the-wardens-ride-into-gumboot-nation-1.23992968

This week on Coast Reporter Radio:

As we wait to see how our newly elected batch of MPs will work together in Ottawa under a minority government, Sean and Sophie offer a quick recap of Oct. 21, and some analysis and predictions.

Show Notes:

Our election wrap up:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/updated-weiler-wins-by-5-000-votes-1.23983982

Our story on Student Vote 2019 (spoiler – it went a different way than the real election):

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/student-vote-goes-green-1.23985087

Our post-game analysis with Tim Schouls of Cap-U:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/canadians-sent-parties-a-clear-message-says-cap-u-professor-1.23985091

More election coverage and analysis at:

https://www.coastreporter.net/federal-election-2019

This week on Coast Reporter Radio we take you into the halls, auditoriums and meeting spaces of the Sunshine Coast for highlights from the four all-candidates meetings we’ve had over the past seven days.

The busy round of meetings for the seven people vying to be the MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country started Oct. 5 with an event sponsored by the Gibsons Chamber of Commerce and the Gibsons Seniors Society and wrapped up Oct. 10 with a forum on environmental issues hosted by Alliance4Democracy and the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association.

In between there were all-candidates meetings held by the Sechelt Chamber of Commerce and Voice Lab, a group focused on the issues of Coasters under 40.

Show Notes:

Our latest stories on Sunshine Coast all-candidates meetings:

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/candidates-say-how-they-d-handle-being-on-the-opposition-benches-1.23970970

https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/candidates-tackle-strategic-voting-and-accountability-1.23969748

The written responses to the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association and Alliance4Democracy questions to the candidates are available here:

https://thescca.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=466&Itemid=303

You can find all our candidate interviews at:

https://www.coastreporter.net/audio

You can follow all of our election coverage, and stories from our partners including Canadian Press at:

https://www.coastreporter.net/federal-election-2019