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Cyber/Scorpions team thrives with community support

Contributed Article - March 10, 2026

BY GISS ROBOTICS PROGRAM In the hallways of Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS), the local robotics team, the Cyber/Scorpions, is doing much more than just...

Indigenous food knowledge explored through Tea Creek film and panel

Contributed Article - March 10, 2026

BY SSI FARMLAND TRUST The Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust is putting on a free screening of the documentary Tea Creek, which tells the story...

Flying 15 sailors ready for overseas adventures

Gail Sjuberg - March 3, 2026

Four Salt Spring Island Flying 15 (F15) sailors are heading to Hong Kong next week to compete in the Ladies Helm regatta, with a...

Stepping Up: Radio station involvement proves rewarding

Driftwood Staff - March 3, 2026

CHIR-FM radio station, which is operated by the Gulf Islands Community Radio Society, hit the airwaves last fall. It’s an all-volunteer enterprise that islanders...

Salt Spring wildfire risk survey launched

Driftwood Staff - March 3, 2026

Two organizations are teaming up to learn more about how islanders manage wildfire risk — and there’s a chance of a cash prize for...

Stepping Up: Ambassadors share goodwill, support

Contributed Article - February 25, 2026

This week in our Stepping Up series we meet Grant Fredrickson, who does a lot of volunteering on Salt Spring Island, including with the...

Groups collaborate for 2026 International Women’s Day events

Contributed Article - February 25, 2026

BY THE CIRCLE EDUCATION March 8th marks International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, and a...

Women’s Institute reports on pie sale disbursements

Contributed Article - February 24, 2026

By SALT SPRING ISLAND WOMEN'S INSTITUTE February is Women’s Institute Month, honouring the birthday of Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, the founder of the Women’s Institute. To...

All-Black battalion members in focus at talk

Contributed Article - February 18, 2026

Salt Spring Island’s little-known connection to the No. 2 Construction Battalion — Canada’s first and only all-Black Battalion during the First World War —...

Youth climate activism award portal opens

Gail Sjuberg - February 11, 2026

Back in 2019, Salt Spring’s Peter Allan, his wife Lynda Monk and their still-in-school sons Jesse and Jackson had many dining-room table conversations about...

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