Salt Spring and Southern Gulf Islands news and information
WEBCrowd watches the ever-popular zucchini races at the Salt Spring Fall Fair at the Farmers’ Institute grounds on the Sept. 7-8 weekend. For more fair photos, see the Sept. 11 issue of the Driftwood newspaper and our Harvest Time publication coming out on Sept. 25.
More photos highlight Fall Fair fun | Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEB2 days ago — September 25, 2024. The Driftwood’s Harvest Time publication featuring Salt Spring Fall Fair photos and trophy winners was published Sept. 25, but Driftwood freelance photographer Rob Lowrie captured so many more great photos that we’ve made an extra album here. A super photo of Marishka and her prize-winning cabbage taken by Dorothy ...
Editorial: Taken for a ride - Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEB3 days ago — The plan comes with a price tag of $10.3 million per year to start; $339,00 for Salt Spring and $51.12 for the owner of an average-assessed Salt Spring residential property. The proposed bylaw allows for almost twice that amount to be requisitioned. For comparison, Salt Spring has its own transportation service requisition — for sidewalks ...
Repair Cafe’s a hit - Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEB3 days ago — The first two TSS Repair Cafes were held in February and May, with about 60 people attending the first and 80 the second. The next one is set for February of 2025. Cafe services are free but donations are appreciated. In the meantime, a clothing swap is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 19 and a toy swap in early December.
ON TOUR, ON ISLAND - Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEBFeb 18, 2024 — The Studio Tour’s 2023 season featured 18 stops, from glassworks and photography to wine and farm goods — one of the busiest years on record, according to Hampson-Reid, a participating artist and also the tour’s coordinator, and certainly the most action since COVID shuttered so many studios to visitors. Those visitors returned ...
News Archives - Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEBSep 18, 2024 — The province-wide ban on outdoor burning enacted July 12 has ended, according to fire officials, who continue to urge caution even as burning is...
Apple festival celebrates agricultural heritage - Gulf Islands …
WEB5 days ago — September 22, 2024. It’s time to get ready for the 2024 Salt Spring Island Apple Festival, with its theme of “Celebrating the Amazing Apples of Salt Spring Island.”. Salt Spring Island has a long and rich agricultural tradition — with the first farming activities taking place in 1859 — and it was once British Columbia’s prime apple ...
About us - Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEBThe Gulf Islands Driftwood was launched as a humble, mimeographed 10-page news-sheet full of social news and quirky tidbits on March 24, 1960 by Woody Fisher, who had lived on Salt Spring Island for five years. The paper was bought by Jim and Arlene Ward in 1964, who changed its name to the Gulf Islands Driftwood, expanding coverage to the ...
Island Life | Gulf Islands Driftwood
WEBSep 17, 2024 — When it comes to when, where and how to get things fixed on Salt Spring, the good news is catching on. Nearly 150 people participated...
Events from September 27 - November 22|All EventsGulf Islands …
WEB3 days ago — Self-guided tour of Salt Spring orchards, farms, cideries and a distillery, plus huge apple display and other food and activities at Fulford Hall. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets and […]