Coast Reporter | Christine Wood/Staff Writer | February 17, 2012
Sunshine Coast Tourism Association (SCTA) president Celia Robben is making the rounds with accommodation providers on the Coast this month, hoping to get at least 51 per cent of them to agree to institute a two per cent room tax locally.
The SCTA is preparing a submission to government to ask their approval of the new taxation, which could triple the organization's funding.
Currently the SCTA has a budget of approximately $125,000 a year, and it's estimated the new room tax could generate ...
Coast Reporter | Jan DeGrass - Arts and Entertainment Writer | Nov 4, 2011
When the artists who participated in October's big Art Crawl met last weekend for a wrap up party in the timbered studio of artists Joanne and Andrew Dunkerton, they were exhausted but happy with their Crawl experience.
From Oct. 21 to 23, artists from Langdale to Lund tidied up their studios and galleries, put up signs directing visitors up rural roads to their locations and exercised their smile muscles until they were sore.
As one of the biggest art weekends of the year, the Crawl, pr...
by Angela Dollar
Welcome to British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, an area I've only recently been introduced to myself. A flight-seeing tour by float plane unveiled its' jaw-dropping views and vistas in a most spectacular way.
Here's our trusty steed, waiting for us patiently on the dock while I consume an extremely satisfying plate of seafood pasta for a pre-flight lunch at Sechelt's Lighthouse Pub. I eyeballed the tiny aircraft and the jitters set in...would I be able to hold it down?
My fellow passengers (...
By Jane Mundy, Special To The Province | August 21, 2011
The Sunshine Coast Trail - which begins at the Saltery Bay ferry terminal and winds north to Desolation Sound - is "99.9 per cent mud-free and grandma-proof; accessible for all ages," said Eagle Walz.
Walz helped build the trail (and still continues to improve and maintain it), along with the BOMB squad (Bloody Old Men's Brigade, a group of retired loggers and millworkers).
"We've got switchbacks in steep areas to provide a good grade. It's not like the Grouse Grind, but you can still chal...
Coast Life - Summer 2011
Q&A with the Sechelt Farmers Market article Marvelous Markets!
