Opinion

Reimagining a healthy community within healthy ecosystems

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BY DAVID RAPPORT In a Dec. 16, 2024 piece published on the Salt Spring Exchange, Kerrie Proulx, a board member of Salt Spring Solutions, suggests...
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Letters to the editor – Jan. 8, 2025

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Conflicts of interest Salt Spring’s leading promoters of mass development certainly remind us who they are and what they stand for, shoulder-to-shoulder in last week’s Driftwood.  Trustee...
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Big issues can be tackled when islanders talk face to face

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By BRYAN YOUNG Amid the merry babble of voices at our Christmas party a couple weeks back, a few of us independently came to the same conclusion: something has really gelled within Transition Salt Spring (TSS)’s board, staff and volunteers...
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Editorial: Opt funding increase needed

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A critical cog in Salt Spring’s already stressed healthcare service wheel is under threat. The island’s Options for Sexual Health clinic (a.k.a. “Opt”) is among...
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Viewpoint: Reality is not so gloomy

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By GARY HOLMAN SSI CRD DIRECTOR The pessimism in some of the contributions to the Jan. 1 edition’s year-end review, particularly regarding housing, deserves a response. Being...
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Trustee perspective: let’s fulfill OCP objectives

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By LAURA PATRICK SALT SPRING ISLAND LOCAL TRUSTEE In 1994 a task force of Salt Springers noted that our island economy had changed dramatically since the...
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Editorial: Partnerships key for community’s success

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Holiday season newspapers can be a challenge for editorial staff everywhere, to put it mildly. Press deadlines are often shifted since everyone takes time off;...
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Editorial: Wish list five years later

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It’s been five years since the Driftwood’s publishing date last landed on Dec. 25, meaning we have an opportunity to update our Christmas wish...
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Letters to the Editor

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Santa and his elves save the day In the late 1990s, I was the principal of Fulford Elementary School in the south end. One winter afternoon,...
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Tried-and-true gems from the Late Great Christmas Cookbook

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‘Tis the season, ‘tisn’t it? And what could make the holidays be even more festive than chowing down on some delicious nourishing grub? So...
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