Tuesday, January 28, 2025
January 28, 2025

Southern Gulf Islands news

Commission mulls washroom hours

A spirited discussion of washroom hours at Ganges’ signature public park will be spilling over to a special budget meeting at the end of...

Appeal court upholds Galiano LTC’s bylaw authority

B.C.’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by a group of Galiano Island property owners to reverse the 2023 dismissal of their lawsuit...

Fire district starts planning for elections

Two of the seven Salt Spring Island Fire Protection District (SSIFPD) trustees are at the end of their three-year terms this year, and officials...

Brackett Springs land likely changing hands 

A former Salt Spring Land Bank Society property is unlikely to be available for future affordable housing development, according to one island official, who...

LCC gets update on geotube pilot

A liquid waste “dewatering” test using geotube technology on Salt Spring is complete, according to Capital Regional District (CRD) staff, who hope to have...

Gulf Islands life

Toasting 100

Helping former Kingfisher Cove resident Ron Wood (seated in the middle of the bottom row) celebrate his 100th birthday are, from left in the...

Training set for new visitor centre volunteers

New volunteers at Salt Spring’s Visitor Information Centre are promised a warm welcome when they take the first Destination BC course of 2025 offered...

Farmland Trust celebrates gratitude and growth

By the SALT SPRING ISLAND FARMLAND TRUST How can we serve you in 2025? This is the question that thumps in our hearts and occupies our...

Pine siskin tops 2024 Christmas bird count

BY TIM MARCHANT SSI CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT COORDINATOR On Dec. 15, 2024, we held Salt Spring’s 36th Christmas Bird Count in lovely weather. This year is...

Arts & Entertainment

Borealis String Quartet comes to ArtSpring

SUBMITTED BY KIRSTEN BOLTON FOR ARTSPRING One of the most dynamic and exciting world-class ensembles of its generation, Vancouver-based Borealis String Quartet has received international critical...

Opera-pianist phenom Fenlon comes home

By KIRSTEN BOLTON For ARTSPRING  After her creative residency last August at ArtSpring and the release of her much-anticipated, internationally acclaimed debut CD in October, the...

Singing Back the Buffalo screens Feb. 5

By STEVE MARTINDALE FOR SALT SPRING FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY The groundbreaking work of award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard returns to ArtSpring when the Salt Spring Film...

Photo of the Week

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ALL EYES ON THE BALL: Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS) senior girls basketball team players, from left, Maraika McConchie, Miya deRoos, Kadence O’Dwyer, Donna De Roo and Elizabeth Innes are all part of the action during the final game of the Nairn Howe Memorial Basketball Tournament against a Dover Bay Secondary team from Nanaimo on Saturday, Jan. 18. GISS won the game 64-50 and the tournament title.

Photo by Gail Sjuberg

Do you have a photo you’d like to submit for Photo of the Week? Send it with caption information to news@gulfislandsdriftwood.com. 

Opinion

Viewpoint: Living wage, affordable housing – a history

BY MICHAEL WALL The Dec. 11, 2024 Driftwood included an article announcing the current living wage for Salt Spring. I found the report disturbing...

Friends group outlines housing position

By JENNIFER MARGISON On behalf of the Friends of the Gulf Islands Society (FOTGIS), I am responding to Jason Mogus’ Jan. 15 opinion piece, “Our community...

Nobody Asked Me But: Looking at clouds from all sides

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now.” These are the lyrics penned and sung by Canadian poet, painter and musician Joni Mitchell. It was...

Weather

Salt Spring Island
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Obituaries

GRIGGS, Tamar

Tamar Griggs was born Dec 4, 1941 in Tacoma, WA to Johanna Frieda Clement and Chauncey Leavenworth Griggs. She passed away from natural causes...

CRONIN, Roy Godfrey

Roy Godfrey Cronin, 78, passed away January 14, 2025 on Salt Spring Island. He leaves behind his wife Cathy, brothers Dan (Ann), Pete (Joanne),...

More news

Plans get underway to ‘decarbonize’ SIMS

A single Capital Regional District (CRD)-operated building on Salt Spring contributes two per cent of all of the regional government’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,...

Trudeau biographer up next at forum

“Will Trudeau’s resignation save the Liberal Party?”  Featuring remarkable timing, the Salt Spring Forum will welcome author Stephen Maher to Mahon Hall Sunday, Jan. 26,...

May says federal election outcome not preordained

 There’s no inevitability in a democracy, according to one elected official –– and the greatest power remains rooted in each vote.  Responding to questions at...

LCC budget presented at town hall

Salt Spring’s Local Community Commission (LCC) held its second annual presentation on the upcoming year’s budget, offering an opportunity for taxpayers to sound off...

Funds needed to preserve huge Saturna acreage

Organizers have targeted an expansive waterfront parcel at the southeastern-most tip of Saturna Island for conservation –– and say time is running out on...

Road gives way under excavator

An excavator was temporarily stuck at an undignified angle on Salt Spring’s busiest road Wednesday, Jan. 8, after the ground gave way beneath it...

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