Teachers Consider Post-Bill 22 Options Released
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Read Div.-2 dynamos Aqua by 83% Our beautiful spring issue. AQUA Soccer women in fi nals. PAGE 22 of newspaper INSIDE GULF ISLANDS LIVING readers Tsawout signs SPRING 2012 VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1 on Salt Spring! Collaborative project. PAGE 17 Staying Power KEEPING BUSINESS DOORS OPEN FOR 20-PLUS YEARS GULF ISLANDS GETTING A FEEL FOR GALIANO PAINTER A.J. BELL MAYNE & PENDER MARKETS SET UP FOR NEW SEASON SHIPWRIGHT MARK WALLACE BRINGS PAST TO PRESENT PEOPLE | BUSINESS | FOOD | MARKETS | ARTS | FARMS Wednesday, March 28, 2012 — YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1960 52ND YEAR ISSUE 13 $ 25 1(incl. HST) FAMILIES IN NEED Fund drive now on for SSI family Emergency brain surgery prompts immediate need BY ELIZABETH NOLAN DRIFTWOOD STAFF Salt Spring carpenter Don Sandberg is back at home and recovering after having a brain tumour removed during an emer- gency operation Friday, just four days after doctors learned the tumour exist- ed. Family friend Cindy Tou- PHOTO BY JENNIFER MORGAN tant reports that Sandberg COZY: Two Anna’s hummingbirds pop up from their nest in arbutus branches on Jennifer and Mike Morgan’s Oakspring Road property Sunday. Mike held will face a long recovery the ladder while Jennifer snapped the photo. Rufous hummingbirds have also returned from their winter sojourn down south. process before he can expect to go back to work. EDUCATION Doctors estimate he will need at least three months of recuperation, although a post-surgery pathol- ogy report has yet to be Teachers consider post-Bill 22 options released. The four-hour operation took place at Victoria Gen- Report cards on track for end of term, says GITA president eral Hospital. “Don is in a lot of pain BY ELIZABETH NOLAN explained Monday. names to be considered as mediator for the next and understandably so,” DRIFTWOOD STAFF “This will be the fi rst day looking at students’ round of contract negotiations. At issue for teach- Toutant told the Driftwood Gulf Islands teachers have returned from spring progress for the end-of-year report.” ers is the fact the mediator will have to work within Monday. break to resume regular teaching duties, but will Teachers across the province will vote April 17 restrictions set out by Bill 22, and that another Toutant, whose husband continue to minimize extracurricular activities as and 18 on a comprehensive plan for dealing with government offi cial will make the ultimate ruling Joe of Joe Toutant Con- they consider their next step in a lengthy contract Bill 22, which was passed by the provincial govern- on any recommendations made by the mediator. struction Ltd. is Sandberg’s negotiation process. ment earlier this month. The bill makes it illegal “So that’s why we believe the whole thing is a employer, immediately set Jack Braak, president of the Gulf Islands Teach- for teachers to strike during an imposed six-month sham,” Braak summed up. out to help the family with ers’ Association, said teachers will stay within the cooling off period. Braak said teachers have four Other top concerns include class sizes for grades their sudden financial bur- legal parameters and start collecting information main areas of concern, but perhaps paramount 4 to 7, the ability of school administrators to allow den when she heard the to prepare report cards for the end of the year. among them is how the mediation process has classes to exceed 30-student limitations for grades news last week. A bake sale Activities such as after-school sports and arts pro- been set out. 4 to 12, and wording that replicates details of Bill 28 held last Saturday at Coun- grams and fi eld trips will be limited, however. Education Minister George Abbott has invited (ruled unconstitutional last year). try Grocer netted $1,300, “We won’t go back and do a second term both the B.C. 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Plywood. “[His wife] Angela “If people can is the main caretaker donate even $5 it will In Stockock InventoryInventory for him and she can- help them pay their $ 0000 not leave him alone, bills at the end of the 12791279 so she cannot work.” month,” Toutant told specialal Toutant is cur- the Driftwood last SAVE $100$100 UntilUntil rently organizing a week. March 24th24th silent auction to be She was extremely held April 14 from 5 grateful to everyone Other modelsmodels to 7 p.m at the Gulf who supported the F501K2C2 available.le. Islands Secondary bake sale fundraiser School multi-purpose on Saturday. room. One of the “I just want to prizes donated so far thank everyone who www.harboursendmarine.com is a fishing excursion came out to support valued at $1,100. us yesterday — what HARBOURS END MARINE & EQUIPMENT Community mem- a wonderful place to 122 Upper Ganges Rd. at Mon. - Fri. 8:30am - 5:00pm bers are also encour- live!” she comment- PHOTO BY JEN MACLELLAN the head of Ganges Harbour closedSaturdays weekends 9:00am until - 1:00pmMar. 24 250-537-4202 aged to give what ed on the Driftwood Cindy Toutant makes a sale at a bake sale that raised $1,300 for the Sandberg Tide Tables they can to a trust website Sunday. family at Country Grocer on Saturday. An auction fundraiser is also in the works. AT FULFORD HARBOUR PATHWAYS Pacific Standard Time – measured in feet sponsored by Harbours End Marine & Equipment Ltd. TIME HEIGHT TIME HEIGHT m ft m ft Pathways group aims to raise $65,000 MAR APR 01 02:37 3.1 10.2 28 03:34 2.6 8.5 really coming together beginning with a path- “We need to raise progress by looking at WE 07:50 2.8 9.2 SU 08:56 2.4 7.9 $15,000 grant 15:30 0.9 3.0 11:39 2.5 8.2 for safe pathways on Salt way along Lower Ganges $65,000 altogether and the Step Up For Pathways 23:59 3.0 9.8 1.1 recommended Spring Island,” said Jean Road from Sharp Road we are off to an excellent thermometer at the kiosk 19:17 3.6 29 04:48 2.7 8.9 02 03:11 3.1 10.2 Gelwicks, chair of the to Booth Canal Road that start.” at the Visitor Informa- TH 08:12 2.8 9.2 MO 09:19 2.2 7.2 Island Pathways’ Step Partners Creating Path- had to be postponed due The group just received tion Centre. Anyone who 16:18 1.0 3.3 13:24 2.5 8.2 Up for Pathways fund- ways Committee. to lack of funds last year. the further good news donates $500 or more will 30 01:01 3.0 9.8 20:16 1.2 3.9 raising campaign has Salt Spring CRD direc- “Pathways are not that Channel Ridge and have their name placed FR 06:44 2.7 8.9 received a much-needed tor Wayne McIntyre has inexpensive, but the SSI Excavating are donat- on the bridge on the new 08:37 2.7 8.9 03 03:41 3.1 10.2 17:12 1.0 3.3 TU 09:44 2.0 6.6 boost with the recent rec- added his support to the good news is that we ing all the rocks the proj- pathway. 31 01:54 3.0 9.8 14:53 2.6 8.5 ommendation of $15,000 SSICT recommendation. have already raised about ect needs and Pat Aker- “We would love to have SA 08:26 2.6 8.5 21:08 1.3 4.3 in funding from the Salt Island Pathways has $5,500 from this cam- man is donating the one angel step forward 09:44 2.6 8.5 Spring Transportation undertaken the fundrais- paign, making our pres- gravel. and donate the entire 18:13 1.1 3.6 Commission. ing campaign to imple- ent grand total $19,000,” Donors can keep track cost of the bridge,” Gel- “The community is ment several projects, Gelwicks said.