Island Life

Poppy “tagging” is the nickname for what Legion volunteers with trays of poppies are doing when you see us distributing poppies and collecting donations outside popular business locations on the island during this two-week period leading up to Remembrance Day on Nov. 11.

Here's a video clip of one post-Halloween jack o'lantern taking a ride in the Salt Spring Lions trebuchet at Hart Bradley Memorial Hall on...

Jane Petch of the Native Plant Stewardship Group on Salt Spring Island reflects on 10 years of removing broom from a Long Harbour Road site.

Salt Spring Forum members look forward to welcoming John Doyle, The Globe and Mail’s television critic and soccer writer, to Salt Spring Island.

“You’ll laugh,” said artist Karen Leonard. “But it was the Tom Cruise movie!”  Leonard is chuckling to herself, describing the inspiration of the 2003 movie...

An Oct. 26-30 exhibition of photographs by TJ Watt and a special event on Thursday, Oct. 27 will raise funds to help preserve old-growth forests in B.C. and other endangered ecosystems.

This years’ Fall Fair game booths raised $3,500 for the high school graduating class, according to the Safe Grad 2023 committee.

Transition Salt Spring is hosting an Oct. 25 webinar called All About Wood Stoves, with tips on how to reduce or eliminate pollutants from wood stoves.

A new men’s organization on the island is seeking tool and materials donations — and, even more importantly — new members.  The Salt Spring Men’s...

A long-running volunteer-sponsored Salt Spring event is about to gear up for the holiday season — and is seeking new members, particularly those interested...