Canada Day has extra impact for the Driftwood this year, with the holiday altering our press schedule and it being the designated Day in the Life of Salt Spring photo shoot day.
For the uninitiated, the Day in the Life sees community members submit photographs taken on Salt Spring Island (or from the waters around it) within a 24-hour period. For 2025, that will be from 5 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1 to 5 a.m. on Wednesday, July 2. Anyone is welcome to submit a digital photo or several photos. They need to be large enough for print purposes (between 500 kb and 4 mb) and contain caption information and the time the photo was taken. Send them to news@gulfislandsdriftwood.com by Thursday, July 10. Publication of Day in the Life pages is scheduled for July 30.
While not a requirement, we invite people to consider photographs that reflect their “love of Canada” or their home place, as an expression of Canadian sovereignty and freedom.
As for the press day change, it means our July 2 paper will be sent to press at the end of the day on Friday, June 27. Anyone wanting to submit a letter to the editor, event report, press release or photo should do that via news@gulfislandsdriftwood.com by the end of Thursday, June 26.