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Subscribers’ copies of Driftwood at office for pick-up

As the Canadian Union of Postal Workers strike nears its third week, copies of the Gulf Islands Driftwood for subscribers continue to be available...

LCC supports the Hearth with grant

Salt Spring’s Local Community Commission (LCC) wrapped up 2024 with one last grant award at its Dec. 5 meeting, using its grants-in-aid program’s remaining...

Community shines in aid drive

BY JON COOKSEY Board Member, SSI Farmland Trust On behalf of the many people who stepped up to help with the emergency food drive for the...

Suspect arrested following theft of truck and trailer

Salt Spring and Sooke RCMP detachments have issued a media release regarding a truck and vehicle theft that occurred in their two communities last...

Officials respond to dropping of ferry committees

Fallout continues after last week’s surprise dissolution of BC Ferries’ longstanding ferry advisory committee (FAC) system, as local officials question whether the goal is...

Gulf Islands life

Matching donors boost cat rescue campaign

By JENNIFER MCMILLAN Founder, Cats of Salt Spring Rescue Society Support the Cats of Salt Spring Rescue Society’s fourth annual year-end Matching Fundraising Campaign and...

Dec. 6 memorial at Centennial Park

Dec. 6, 1989 was the day an armed man walked into an engineering class at I’École Polytechnique de Montréal and killed 14 women and...

GIFTS earns support from 100+ Women group

Following three compelling five-minute presentations, including from the Salt Spring Singers and the Beaver Point Hall Community Association, the presentation by Perry Ruehlen on...

Santa visits via ship on Sunday

In a revival of a briefly lost, much-beloved island tradition, once again Santa Claus is coming to town by ship –– arriving at Ganges’...

Arts & Entertainment

Empty Bowls ceramic fundraiser aids food bank

The Empty Bowls event has become a tradition for the Salt Spring Island Potters Guild, since the start of the pandemic in 2020. It is...

Holiday groove comes to ArtSpring

By KIRSTEN BOLTON For ArtSpring Led by acclaimed vocalist Dawn Pemberton and award-winning bassist Jodi Proznick, O Come All Ye Soulful is a Christmas concert that...

Singers plan festive Christmas concert

Salt Spring Singers have a special Christmas treat ready for island audiences when they open the doors at All Saints by-the-Sea church next weekend. Gloria...

Photo of the Week

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Lions Santa Ship comes into the dock in Ganges Harbour on Sunday, Dec. 8, before Santa met with island children at Mouat’s Mall. 

Photo by Rob Lowrie

Opinion

Islands Trust should consider different Baker Beach vision

By GARY CHERNEFF The Islands Trust describes its job as “preserving and protecting over 450 islands and surrounding waters in the Salish Sea.” My house is...

Viewpoint: Misleading allegations

BY TISHA BOULTER In response to the Nov. 27 “Community Services responds to criticism” piece by Jennifer Lannan and Rob Wiltzen, I am one of...

Editorial: Ferry advisory committees should be maintained

With the quashing of the ferry advisory committee (FAC) system, we have to ask: has someone been tampering with the navigation system at BC...

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Obituaries

HOBBS, John

 With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of John Hobbs, who left us peacefully in his sleep at Lady Minto Hospital after a courageous...

John and Sylvia Andrews

John and Sylvia Andrews, inseparable companions for 67 years, dying weeks apart in the Fall of 2024. John on Oct. 2nd at 98, and...

More news

CRD to help with Mayne fallow deer problem

A Mayne Island group has successfully recruited regional officials to help tackle an animal problem there, as the Capital Regional District (CRD) board will...

Avian flu detected near Saanichton 

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N1 at a backyard poultry flock south of Saanichton, marking the...

Fire devours Blackburn-area cabin

Reports of flames and an explosion sent crews from all three Salt Spring fire stations to an early morning blaze that destroyed a cabin,...

Fire trustees get ‘tour’ of new Ganges hall

Trustees with the Salt Spring Island Fire Protection District got a tour of the completed fire hall, despite construction having only begun this year...

CRD Salt Spring provisional budget: 13.2 per cent hike

By Earl Rook, LCC chair, AND Gary Holman, CRD director, LCC vice-chair The Capital Regional District (CRD) Board approved its provisional budget for 2025, including that...

Islands Trust FOI requests rise

Even a perceived lack of transparency has a real dollar cost, Islands Trust officials learned, as the annual number of Freedom of Information and...

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