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C54 | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010 | GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD 2009 2009 | 50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY TOP STORIES The Court of Appeal in British Columbia sided with the Islands Trust in January in calling for the removal of the infamous “floating struc- ture” moored at Ganges Marina. The issue had been before the courts since 2006. It was finally removed in November 2009. About 40 people attended the first public ad hoc Save Our Surgery Committee meeting in January, which passed a motion giving the group permission to act on the public’s behalf in future communications with the Vancouver Island Health Authority. Longtime Liberal MLA Murray Coell retained his seat in the provincial election, but faced a tough challenge from NDP candidate Gary Holman, a Salt Spring resident and former CRD director. A dramatic fire in April destroyed Salt Spring’s ambulance station on Kings Lane. Fire investiga- tors ruled out foul play. A tow-truck driver pulled an unusual catch from St. Mary Lake in June after a man drove his luxury sports car into the lake. The driver exited the car and made it part-way across the bay via paddle boat before being stopped by emergency crews. Salt Spring market vendor Wendy Beatty was banned from travelling aboard BC Ferries for six months after she experienced a flash of frustra- tion after arriving too late for the Crofton ferry and “nudged” a ferry worker blocking access to the boat in July. The Salt Spring Coffee Company’s applica- tion to rezone a property at 1501 Fulford-Ganges Road and build a coffee processing facility there was defeated in August by the island’s local Trust committee. Lorn Nelson was handed a six-month con- ditional sentence after he pleaded guilty to slashing two men outside the Fulford Inn with homemade “Freddie Krueger-style gloves.” A bid by former children’s entertainer Raffi to open a Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring took a huge step forward in October with the donation of the use of a house and 22-acre property on Long Harbour Road. Spectators cheered and waved Canadian flags on Halloween as the Olympic torch landed in Ganges via floatplane. In November, Salt Springers learned they must wait at least two years before the government would even consider funding an incorporation study and subsequent referendum. Some 336 islanders rolled up their sleeves for an H1N1 vaccination at Salt Spring’s first clinic, held Nov. 19 at the Fernwood Elementary School gymnasium. Six people died in December when a Seair floatplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lyall Harbour on Saturna Island. Only the pilot and one passenger survived the crash, which occurred at 4:12 p.m. while en route to the Lower Mainland. After the last vote was counted on Dec. 5, it wasn’t even close. Salt Spring residents voted 78 per cent in favour of borrowing the $2.75 mil- lion needed to build a new facility in downtown Gan- ges. “I’m very pleased,” said Tilly Crawley, library board chair. “This is a very clear mandate for the library to go ahead. “This is a giant step. If it hadn’t passed, we wouldn’t know what to do.” The vote was 1,870 in favour and 519 against. The decision meant the library board could access a $4.55-million Building Canada Fund approved by the federal and provincial governments. “It’s an enormous bonus,” said Crawley. “A lot of people must have felt that they couldn’t let this grant go.” The Dec. 5 vote capped more than four and a half years of effort by Craw- ley and her fellow board members to move ahead with plans for a downtown library. A 2005 referendum had already approved pur- chase of the lot next door to the current library site on McPhillips Avenue so the library could remain in downtown Ganges. However, siting of the facility continued to be contentious, with many islanders feeling the CRD’s Rainbow Road Pool prop- erty was a more appropri- ate spot. The library board’s immediate priorities were to conduct an environ- mental assessment of the site, work out zoning issues with the Islands Trust and obtain all the necessary building permits. By 2009 the Driftwood production depart- ment has ever-growing options, only a few mouse-clicks away, for illustrating the news — from searchable stock photo sites to wielding the powers of the mod- ern graphic designer’s magic wand: Photo- Shop. Yet the 2009 Christmas issue was a testament to the fact that in a world of increasing complica- tion there is sometimes no replacement for the simple, heart-warming, hand-drawn originals of local high school students who know better than anyone the true colours of a Gulf Islands Christmas. Since 1979, Gulf Islands Secondary School art class members have provided the cover art for the Driftwood’s Christmas edition. Caroline Hamilton, the art teacher at the time, initiated the project. It then became a Driftwood- sponsored contest and an art class lesson in cover design. At least 50 per cent of students whose art has been fea- tured on the cover have gone on to Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and other schools to pursue art careers, according to a 2006 interview with GISS art teacher Sandra Locke. When the Driftwood won first place for Best Christmas Edition at the CCNA Better Newspapers Competition in 2006, the judge remarked, “And there was something about the cover — submitted by a student — that really caught my eye.” Sometimes handmade is simply better. “Action, the ball, the faces, the decisive moment. All are part of a sports photo. A low or high angle often gives the viewer an unusual way of looking at the usual. [In the above photo] the good guys are in white, bad guys in black. And the white ‘V’ of the GISS players leads the eye into the black area of the net; that’s clearly where the ball is going.” JOHN CAMERON Freelance photographer Photo taken Jan. 15, 2009 at the Nairn Howe tournament in the dim lighting of the GISS gym. Casey Knight has the ball. 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C54 | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010 | GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD
20092009 | 50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY
TOP STORIES
The Court of Appeal in British Columbia sided with the Islands Trust in January in calling for the removal of the infamous “fl oating struc-ture” moored at Ganges Marina. The issue had been before the courts since 2006. It was fi nally removed in November 2009.
About 40 people attended the fi rst public ad hoc Save Our Surgery Committee meeting in January, which passed a motion giving the group permission to act on the public’s behalf in future communications with the Vancouver Island Health Authority.
Longtime Liberal MLA Murray Coell retained his seat in the provincial election, but faced a tough challenge from NDP candidate Gary Holman, a Salt Spring resident and former CRD director.
A dramatic fi re in April destroyed Salt Spring’s ambulance station on Kings Lane. Fire investiga-tors ruled out foul play.
A tow-truck driver pulled an unusual catch from St. Mary Lake in June after a man drove his luxury sports car into the lake. The driver exited the car and made it part-way across the bay via paddle boat before being stopped by emergency crews.
Salt Spring market vendor Wendy Beatty was banned from travelling aboard BC Ferries for six months after she experienced a fl ash of frustra-tion after arriving too late for the Crofton ferry and “nudged” a ferry worker blocking access to the boat in July.
The Salt Spring Coffee Company’s applica-tion to rezone a property at 1501 Fulford-Ganges Road and build a coffee processing facility there was defeated in August by the island’s local Trust committee.
Lorn Nelson was handed a six-month con-ditional sentence after he pleaded guilty to slashing two men outside the Fulford Inn with homemade “Freddie Krueger-style gloves.”
A bid by former children’s entertainer Raffi to open a Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring took a huge step forward in October with the donation of the use of a house and 22-acre property on Long Harbour Road.
Spectators cheered and waved Canadian fl ags on Halloween as the Olympic torch landed in Ganges via fl oatplane.
In November, Salt Springers learned they must wait at least two years before the government would even consider funding an incorporation study and subsequent referendum.
Some 336 islanders rolled up their sleeves for an H1N1 vaccination at Salt Spring’s fi rst clinic, held Nov. 19 at the Fernwood Elementary School gymnasium.
Six people died in December when a Seair fl oatplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lyall Harbour on Saturna Island. Only the pilot and one passenger survived the crash, which occurred at 4:12 p.m. while en route to the Lower Mainland.
After the last vote was counted on Dec. 5, it wasn’t even close.
Salt Spring residents voted 78 per cent in favour of borrowing the $2.75 mil-lion needed to build a new facility in downtown Gan-ges.
“I’m very pleased,” said Tilly Crawley, library board chair. “This is a very clear mandate for the library to go ahead.
“This is a giant step. If it hadn’t passed, we wouldn’t know what to do.”
The vote was 1,870 in favour and 519 against.
The decision meant the library board could access a $4.55-million Building Canada Fund approved by the federal and provincial governments.
“ I t ’s a n e n o r m o u s bonus,” said Crawley. “A lot of people must have felt that they couldn’t let this
grant go.”The Dec. 5 vote capped
more than four and a half years of effort by Craw-ley and her fellow board members to move ahead with plans for a downtown library. A 2005 referendum had already approved pur-chase of the lot next door to the current library site on McPhillips Avenue so the library could remain in downtown Ganges.
However, siting of the facility continued to be contentious, with many islanders feeling the CRD’s Rainbow Road Pool prop-erty was a more appropri-ate spot.
The l ibrar y board’s immediate priorities were to conduct an environ-mental assessment of the site, work out zoning issues with the Islands Trust and obtain all the necessary building permits.
By 2009 the Driftwood production depart-ment has ever-growing options, only a few mouse-clicks away, for illustrating the news — from searchable stock photo sites to wielding the powers of the mod-ern graphic designer’s magic wand: Photo-Shop.
Yet the 2009 Christmas issue was a testament to the fact that in a world of increasing complica-tion there is sometimes no replacement for the simple, heart-warming, hand-drawn originals of local high school students who know better than anyone the true colours of a Gulf Islands Christmas.
Since 1979, Gulf Islands Secondary School art class members have provided the cover art for the Driftwood’s Christmas edition. Caroline Hamilton, the art teacher at the time, initiated the project. It then became a Driftwood-sponsored contest and an art class lesson in cover design.
At least 50 per cent of students whose art has been fea-tured on the cover have gone on to Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and other schools to pursue art careers, according to a 2006 interview with GISS art teacher Sandra Locke.
When the Driftwood won fi rst place for Best Christmas Edition at the CCNA Better Newspapers Competition in 2006, the judge remarked, “And there was something about the cover — submitted by a student — that really caught my eye.”
Sometimes handmade is simply better.
“Action, the ball, the faces, the decisive moment. All are part of a
sports photo. A low or high angle often gives the viewer an unusual
way of looking at the usual. [In the above photo] the good guys are
in white, bad guys in black. And the white ‘V’ of the GISS players
leads the eye into the black area of the net; that’s clearly where the
ball is going.”
JOHN CAMERONFreelance photographer
Photo taken Jan. 15, 2009 at the Nairn Howe tournament in the
dim lighting of the GISS gym. Casey Knight has the ball. (Canon 1D
MkIII/35mm lens/1/320 sec /f/1.8 /IS0 1600)
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INSERTS• Thrifty Foods• Ganges Pharmasave• Country Grocer• Home Hardware • The Source• Rona • The Brick• Merit Furniture
INDEXArts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1Bus Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A8
Ferry Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A18 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A18What’s On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B6
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