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Editorial: In the Worldly Realms-
It is that time again in the worldly realm of municipal affairs when the incumbents and the ‘wannabe’ candidates sit and cogitate taking on the responsibility of running a town or city.
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Message from the President
Welcome to the fall issue of Building the Coast. With an election looming there is a great deal of concern over the health and well-being of our community. We have received an inordinate number of politically charged articles, as everyone is focused on the municipal elections. Read More
Diane Watts Exclusive Interview: I come from the business sector, so dealing with any kind of bureaucracy drives me crazy especially if it makes no sense. We streamlined a lot of things in terms of our development process. Read More
Can Smart Technologies Reduce Home Energy Use?
Many Canadians are trying to use less energy at home. When Katherine Smith of Hamilton, Ontario lived in England for a year, she was impressed by a low-tech and energy free way to dry her clothes — an airer. Read More
Red Tape Blues
Pervasive in all aspects of our lives, red tape’s initial beach head (or so it is said) was during the 1600s when Henry Vlll petitioned Pope Clemency Vll for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon no less than eighty times! Each petition was rolled and sealed, and bound by a red ribbon. Read More
A New Logo, A New Catchphrase
The District of Sechelt has scrapped the logo that once depicted a sailboat, sunshine, and the ocean with the tag line, “Blessed by Sun and Seas”. In its place, they paid twenty thousand tax dollars to a Vancouver company to create a new logo. Read More
In Pursuit of Housing Affordability
It’s official. Vancouver is now ranked along with Sydney, Australia and Hong Kong as one of the three most expensive cities in the world in which to live. And it’s mainly due to the cost of housing. Read More
Curmudgeon’s Corner
Ever have one of those days? You’re going for the 8:30 am ferry, obeying the speed limits, enjoying the promise of sunshine, when you get behind a car that is going 50 kilometres an hour in a 60 kilometre zone. Okay, fine, you think. I’ll pass him in the double lanes on Rat Portage hill.
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What is Needed? Sechelts Sewer Treatment Infastructure
John Henderson is a Sechelt resident and a businessman with 35 years experience. For about two and a half years he was Chair of the Sechelt Sewage Facilities Commission until his resignation in October 2010. In recent discussions with the Editorial Board of Building The Coast, he had the following to say about the way Mayor & Council have been working on improving and expanding Sechelt’s wastewater treatment facilities. Read More
Target Marine Walk the Talk
If you owned a small- to medium-sized enterprise and were looking at Sechelt as a potential place to invest, the treatment of Target Marine by the District of Sechelt in the past few years would make you strongly reconsider. Read more
Rebranding our Community
When I grew up on the Sunshine Coast in the 1980s, I suspect around 75 percent of my classmates were from families sustained by logging or commercial fishing. Read More
Never Forgotton
In 1941, my father was sent from Victoria, B.C. to be a soldier in Hong Kong. He was in the Signals Corps and as he said, “Most of us were green and didn’t know one end of a rifle from the other”. Read More
The Saga of Gospel Rock
Gospel Rock stirs passion in the hearts of people who know it. A promontory overlooking the southern Strait of Georgia, in the public consciousness Gospel Rock comprises the Rock itself as well as the waterfront cliffs and the plateau above. Read More
Does Running your Gas Fireplace in Winter cast you energy?
When a fireplace is operated in close proximity to the house’s central thermostat, the heat introduced by the fireplace can cause the heating system to delay its normal cycle of operation, affecting energy consumption in the home. It is estimated that almost a quarter of Canadian homes have a gas-burning fireplace, many of which are used daily during the heating season.
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Politics on the Coast
Many people believe that there are too many elected officials on the Coast and that there should only be one local government. At this time and in the near future, however, one government is not a likely possibility. Read More
Just a Simple Country Engineer
I’ve always been careful what thoughts I allow into the universe because of a sneaking suspicion that something out there has a strange sense of humour and delights in messing with me. But sometimes I forget.Which brings me to the last issue’s brief excursion into the subject of “red tape”. Read More
