Island Life

Fun Robbie Burns night on tap

By MICHELLE GRANT President, SSI Scottish Country Dance Club It's hard to believe that our annual celebration of the well-known Scottish bard Robbie Burns is...

First Restorative Dialogue Circle set for Jan. 10

SUBMITTED BY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SALT SPRING In collaboration with ASK Salt Spring, we warmly invite you to participate in our monthly Restorative Dialogue Circles. These...

Actions help protect drinking water resources

BY SSI WATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY The Salt Spring Island Water Preservation Society (WPS) was founded in 1982 to protect the sources of drinking water on...

Community-building sees results

Part of the Driftwood's Looking Back/Looking Forward series of retrospective pieces submitted by local organizations and published in the Jan. 1 issue of the...

Island Pathways reports on busy 2024

By ROBIN JENKINSON and PETER MEYER This year held many great events and projects to advance safer walking and cycling pathways on Salt Spring Island. From a...

Salt Spring Physician Recruitment and Retention: Residents a piece of the puzzle

Editor’s note: The following is the second article in Connie Gibbs’ series about Salt Spring Island family physician recruitment and retention efforts. The first...

St. Mary’s Church gets heating upgrade

More than 130 years after its doors first opened, the St. Mary’s Church at Fulford is “pleasantly warm now,” thanks to a modern heat...

Sustainable gift giving: all the joy without the waste

Part of the Lighter Living initiative presented by Transition Salt Spring The holiday season is upon us — a time for joy, connection and, unfortunately,...

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...

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