Keili Bartlett

Sunshine Coast

Reporter at Sechelt / Gibsons Coast Reporter

Journalist & @kings_mfa student interested in where culture, history and nature meet. Always looking for good stories and my next coffee! Find me on Bluesky.

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Articles

Camden's dogs: Family seeks homes for rescue dogs after son's death

Apr 14, 2024 | timescolonist.com | Keili Bartlett

It’s what Camden would have wanted. In 2023, Camden Verlaan of Roberts Creek spent the last few weeks of his life taking care of others. The 20 year old had struggled with celiac disease for years before he embarked on a journey of a lifetime. He worked at the Gumboot Cafe to save up funds to volunteer his time at a dog sanctuary in Peru, his first time travelling on his own. There, he spent months making friends, learning to salsa and surf.
Camden's dogs: Family seeks homes for rescue dogs after son's death

Apr 14, 2024 | vancouverisawesome.com | Keili Bartlett

It’s what Camden would have wanted. In 2023, Camden Verlaan of Roberts Creek spent the last few weeks of his life taking care of others. The 20 year old had struggled with celiac disease for years before he embarked on a journey of a lifetime. He worked at the Gumboot Cafe to save up funds to volunteer his time at a dog sanctuary in Peru, his first time travelling on his own. There, he spent months making friends, learning to salsa and surf.
B.C.'s Gracey Hemstreet becomes first woman to complete — and win — Red Bull Hardline

Feb 26, 2024 | vancouverisawesome.com | Keili Bartlett

In 10 years of the series’ history, no female mountain biker has ever completed a full race run on a Red Bull Hardline course — until Gracey Hemstreet. In February, Sechelt’s 19-year-old Hemstreet was one of six women who were invited to the Red Bull Hardline course in Tasmania’s Maydena Bike Park. Hemstreet was one of two female riders who qualified, alongside Louise Ferguson of the U.K., and the two became the first women in Hardline’s history to compete in the final.
'A really good win for Mother Nature': B.C. man fined $250K for fishing in protected glass sponge reef refuge - BC News

Feb 23, 2024 | castanet.net | Keili Bartlett

A B.C. fisherman has caught a large fine — $250,000 — for a series of violations under the Fisheries Act and against Pacific Fisheries Regulations after he was found to have set prawn traps in a protected glass sponge reef area near Sechelt.
Sunshine Coast resident fined after shooting neighbour’s dog - BC News

Feb 23, 2024 | castanet.net | Keili Bartlett

More than three years after a nine-month-old husky named Luna was shot and killed in Halfmoon Bay, a 71-year-old man has pleaded guilty to violating the Wildlife Act. In Sechelt Provincial Court on Feb. 21, Craig Anthony Heffernan entered a guilty plea to shooting what he believed to be a coyote not in open season, contrary to the Wildlife Act.
Researchers want your winter whale sightings in the Salish Sea

Feb 7, 2024 | vancouverisawesome.com | Keili Bartlett

The Ocean Wise team is currently trying its luck at finding and studying the winter habits of at-risk and endangered whales in the Salish Sea. The second season of this seasonal fieldwork began in November with a sighting of all of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, which includes 74 or 75 members across the J, K and L pods, on the first day out.
Stowaway cat returns to Sechelt after barge journey to Victoria

Feb 6, 2024 | timescolonist.com | Keili Bartlett

A stowaway discovered onboard a gravel barge in Victoria has been safely returned to her home in Sechelt after a long journey. Victoria Animal Control Services received a call Jan. 24 after someone found a cat on a barge in the Rock Bay area. The barge had departed from Surrey, stopped in Sechelt and continued to Vancouver Island carrying aggregate — and an unexpected feline passenger — onboard.
Stowaway cat returns to Sechelt after barge journey to Victoria - BC News

Feb 6, 2024 | castanet.net | Keili Bartlett

A stowaway discovered onboard a gravel barge in Victoria has been safely returned to her home in Sechelt after a long journey. In the morning of Jan. 24, Victoria Animal Control Services got a call after someone found a cat on a barge in the Rock Bay area. The barge departed from Surrey, before stopping in Sechelt and carrying on to Vancouver Island with aggregate — and an unexpected feline passenger — onboard.
Sunshine Coast senior wins injunction to remove residents from property

Jan 30, 2024 | timescolonist.com | Keili Bartlett

A Sunshine Coast senior has been granted an injunction to remove two residents of her Gibsons property so the construction of a home can be completed without interference. Maria Sandberg Jones applied to the Supreme Court of British Columbia and was granted an injunction to remove the defendants and their belongings from her property, where they had been living in a camper. She alleged breach of contract, negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation, trespass and nuisance.
Watch: Northern resident orcas return to rub their bellies on Sechelt beaches

Jan 26, 2024 | timescolonist.com | Keili Bartlett

Two years ago, Tracy Thomsen counted herself among the 60-or-so people who witnessed a pod of nine orcas rubbing themselves on the rocky shoreline of a Sechelt beach. And on Jan. 23, she was reunited with the whales, but this time she and her daughter were alone on the beach. A Facebook memory of her sighting in 2022 popped up for Thomsen earlier this week, and inspired her and her family to try to see whales.