Friday, January 24, 2025
January 24, 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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

Shoko Inoue performs at All Saints

Victoria pianist Shoko Inoue will perform a solo concert at All Saints by-the-Sea on Friday, Jan. 31, with three very different styles of music...

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

Editorial: Locked doors

Islanders are sometimes accused of over-complicating seemingly trivial issues, such as, for example, whether to keep a washroom unlocked overnight.  At the same time, we...

Viewpoint: Wildfire prep essential

By Terry Curell  We watch in horror as southern California stars in its own disaster movie, taking comfort in the belief such devastation could never...

In Response: Our community needs empathy, not attacks, to solve its problems

By JASON MOGUS Last week’s paper held an interesting snapshot of life on Salt Spring in early 2025.  The lead story was how the median home...

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

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...

Rare ocular cancer experience full of surprises

It was back in 2017 when Steve Lynch first noticed a little spot on the white part (the sclera) of his right eye. “It wasn’t...

Blaze claims Jones Road trailer

A south-end blaze destroyed a fifth-wheel trailer home Tuesday night, officials said, and while an investigation is ongoing, there were no injuries, and foul...

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