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12 degrees Celsius in winter - that's good news in that driving is easy, people are still scootering and motorcycling and cycling... but we miss all the snow and snap of a colder winter. The Coast is just recovering from a dandy windstorm that left Davis Bay awash in high tide and storm surge, and Halfmoon Bay without power for almost two days. It's our typical fall storm, 3 months late.

Dakota Ridge does have snow, but needs a drop of about 8 degrees and some precipitation to create fresh snow. Watch for snow reports at Suncoast Central. There's also rumors of new facebook pages for the Tetrahedron Ski Club and Dakota Ridge - check in and ask them to post here too! Everyone's looking forward to a great season of cross country, snowshoeing, snowboarding (check out the cool boards developed for the 'retro-board' crowd at http://www.mindskis.blogspot.com/ - and with 15km of groomed trail around alpine lakes with almost 360 degree views of coastal mountains and Georgia Strait... wow. Read this great article in the Vancouver Province by travel writer Neville Judd.

This winter is proving to be not as sleepy as other 'off-seasons', largely because of the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Olympics in February and also because Sunshine Coast Tourism is doing some serious promotion around Meetings & Retreats development for our region. As a result, the Calendar of Events is packed with activities from now through the shoulder season - if you've got one to promote, make sure you add it via your member page!

Remember to use your blog function to post, and promote the link on your other social media. Have fun!

Laurie

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Karen Motley

Stranded on the Island

Hey everyone.....well, I used to live there.....now I dont....what was I thinking, lol.


They say hindsight is 50/50 well in this case its everything....I want to go back home..waaaaaaa.


Seriously now...I am currently living on Vancouver Island and looking to move back with in the next month.


Does anyone know of any work that perhaps is not advertised as currently is the issue in a small place.


I am an extremely hard worker and have 15-20 years in the hospitallity a

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Posted by Karen Motley on February 4, 2010 at 7:25pm

Gary Little

Sunshine Coast History: 1789

Were the Americans the first to visit the Sunshine Coast, beating the Spanish here by 2 years and the British by 3 years? I've written a story about this -- see WERE AMERICANS THE FIRST TO VISIT THE SUNSHINE COAST IN 1789?

As usual with my historical articles, it highlights an old map from my collection, this one from John Meares in 1790.

Posted by Gary Little on January 19, 2010 at 6:29pm

Lorna Ketler

Shop Local - it does a body (and your community) good!

As we approach mid-January and retailers everywhere are grasping for new and innovative ideas to get people to shop, I think it might be time to remind the buying public why it's important to shop local and to support their favourite businesses...even in January! There's so much information out there about how to pinch a penny, get a discount, shop "smart" and save money, but I haven't seen too much written about why it's important to shop at and support local, independent businesses. The most r… Continue

Posted by Lorna Ketler on January 13, 2010 at 12:02am

Tom Neuhoff

Satan's Corner

Dear Satan:
Vancouver has been our family’s home for three generations. Two of them legal. I don’t know if the news has reached Hell yet but Vancouver is hosting the Winter Olympics in February. People will be flooding our precious city from all over the globe. Many of them Americans. Americans! I was hoping you could help me out here. Maybe sending a plague of locusts but that’s been done and I know how you hate to repeat yourself. The Americans would probably just eat them anyway. I am despera… Continue

Posted by Tom Neuhoff on November 13, 2009 at 10:49am

Tom Neuhoff

Satan's Corner

I miss evenings at the Lighthouse Pub tossing back pints of your fine Canadian beer. The following is a humour column I submitted to a newspaper in Salt Lake City. Of course I would rather be writing for a newspaper on the Sunshine Coast but I'd also like a weekend at the Best Western with Megan Fox. I'd even settle for one night with Mariah Carey in an RV. We don't always get what we want. Sad but true.

Satan’s Corner”


Dear Satan:
Why can’t there be a state lottery in Utah? I’m tired… Continue

Posted by Tom Neuhoff on October 30, 2009 at 12:00pm

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TAMBURA RASA at ROBERTS CREEK HALL
February 12, 2010 at 8pm to February 13, 2010 at 1am
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