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Canadian Publications Mail Product Volume 20 Number 7 April 17—April 30, 2008 $1 at Selected Retailers Sales Agreement Nº 40020421 Tide tables 2 Carbon moves 2 Round the islands 3 Saturna notes 4 Letters 4 What’s on? 5 Borderless music 6 Bulletin board 7 Goodbye to those blue /green/purple commuter tickets, hello to ferry cards Prepaid ferry ticket books are a thing of the past. Since April 1, they are no longer sold by BC Ferries. ‘Commuter’ tickets have been a feature of life on minor Islands routes for many years. By investing in a pack of ten car-and-driver Photo: Susan Banjavich tickets, or foot passenger tickets, residents could cut their travel costs to Shivering Daffodils—this spring has brought some unusual eye candy. adjacent city services or work by as much as 30%. The old paper tickets had no expiry and were not subject to price Gypsy moth back All pumped increases. Some Islanders felt that it was To reduce the risk of the gypsy moth population information 24 hours / day. Al Maxwell a little bonus when the prices went up expanding, small areas on The 13.3-hectare treatment area in Saltair and they had some commuter tickets in This summer, a gold-coloured boat will be plying and in Saltair, south of Ladysmith, will be includes both sides of Chemainus Road, from hand. water. Nothing romantic about these treated by ground-spraying and mass trapping just south of Porter Road to Davis Lagoon. The However this April 1, when fares went voyages, the Pumpty Dumpty II will be collecting later this month. 7.4-hectare treatment area on Salt Spring up yet again and when BC ferries effluent for disposal at Ganges Harbour’s pumpout Island includes both sides of the Fulford- introduced its new ‘Experience’ Treatment plans consist of three ground station. The marine ‘honey wagon’ will stop at Irish Ganges Road, just north of Lee Road. Areas electronic travel card, Islanders were told applications of a new formulation of Foray 48B Bay on Samuel Island, Winter Cove and Lyall treated with Foray 48B generally do not require that they would, for the first time, be (approved for use on organic farms) between Harbour on Saturna, Port Browning and Beaumont additional treatment in following years. late April and mid-June, depending on Marine Park in the Penders, and Montague Harbour required to pay the difference on their Following the final treatment application, weather. on Galiano. tickets in cash. This last straw in traps that attract male moths prior to their The Foray 48B will be applied by trained Thanks to a grant from Mountain Equipment spiralling ferry fares had some folks breeding season will be placed in the area. The and licensed technicians. Residents in the area Coop, and the hard work of a team of volunteers over frothing at the mouth. traps prevent moths from mating as well as will receive written notices advising of the the past year and a half, this vessel is equipped with a Then at the end of March, BC Ferries evaluating their population status. treatments at least seven days before the initial two-inch centrifugal pump and a tank which makes agreed to convert all outstanding tickets Foray 48B contains Bacillus thuringiensis application and 48 hours before each of the her an efficient mobile holding-tank / discharge unit. to credit on the electronic cards at the var. Kurstaki (Btk), a naturally occurring, soil- three subsequent applications. Technicians will The Association of Boaters and April 1 price until the middle of April. based organism that only affects caterpillars (The electronic cards have been handed also knock on residents’ doors on each Mayne Island Conservancy Society would like to take that eat sprayed leaves. Btk does not harm out at ferry booths for some weeks.) treatment day. A gypsy moth information line, credit for the idea, but a service has been operational humans, mammals, birds, fish, plants, reptiles, For ferry workers it will be an April to 1-866-917-5999, will be staffed during business for 7 years in and around Brentwood Bay on the remember, travellers handing in books of hours and provide updated recorded MOTH, please turn to page 2 PUMPED, please turn to page 5 tickets must have caused a good deal of Commentary by Murray Dobbin extra work and hold-ups at ferry booths up and down the coast. War Is Peace—Orwell wrote the Harper doctrine If you haven’t done yours yet, don’t worry. Now BC Ferries has announced Stephen Harper returned from last week’s NATO Americans named one of their nuclear missiles tradition is just one way to reframe militarism as that the conversion program will meeting with the commitments he says he ‘The Peacekeeper.’ humanitarianism. Another way is to tie it to continue until May 31. By that time you needed to justify keeping Canadian forces in In his February speech to the Conference of development. Harper made this connection in his may be out of tickets anyway…. Kandahar. So Canadians will face having our Defence Associations (CDA), Harper began by speech to the CDA, and even arms dealers—the To make the conversion, prepaid troops act as combatants in the Afghanistan war talking about Pearson, the Canadian reluctance to main beneficiary of Canada’s new foreign policy paper tickets should be handed over at a for at least three more years in a mission that take up arms, support for the United Nations, and stance—are making it part of their sales pitch. participating BC Ferries terminal—most started in 2001. At 10 years it will be, by far, our international reputation for working among When the CBC sent Nelofer Pazira, known for of those with computer ticket machines. Canada’s longest war. ‘the world’s poor and oppressed.’ But this was just her lead role in the film Kandahar, into an arms In fact, fares cannot be paid with With these developments, it may be a good the set up for Harper’s announcement of trade show, she tried to convey to the arms ‘Experience’ ferry cards at Island time to examine how Canada’s traditional permanent increases to Canadian military dealers present how people living in conflict terminals without computerized ticket peacekeeping role regressed into war-making. spending and a profound shift away from zones experienced their products. She told them booths, such as at the Denman to We are being encouraged to celebrate news of peacekeeping. she could remember as a child counting Soviet Hornby, Quadra to Cortes and the how many people Canadian soldiers have Harper’s plan will see Canadian troops tanks on the streets of Kabul, and the fear they Saturna ferry ports. However, this does managed to kill, with body counts reminiscent of exercising the ‘robust use of force,’ with purchases engendered. not affect commuter fares as these have US media coverage of the Vietnam War. From a of new equipment for every branch of the But the response she got was dismissive. She been collected on the Vancouver Island country that made a unique contribution to military. Mixed in with a lot of talk about noble was told ‘You can’t have development and side of the trip for some years. peaceful conflict resolution, Canada now stands aims, Harper announced that Canadian security reconstruction without having a minimum level That last moment, out-the-door ‘Got alongside the US in supporting aggressive now includes protecting trade and investment of security.’ The military wares being sold to your tickets?’ reminder will be a thing of military intervention. We seem to be devolving as opportunities for Canadian corporations in Canada were the ‘foundation of the solution’ for the past, instead it will be ‘Have you got a nation. foreign countries. If that doesn’t alarm you, it Afghanistan. Up is down, war is peace. your card’ even, ‘Are you experienced?’ The most committed advocates of the war in should. Fear of Canada Afghanistan, including Harper and John Manley, Military Spending as By the way, register you Experience are characterizing Canada’s new militarism as the Pazira appealed to Canadians to take a look at the card with BC Ferries online or it could be natural extension of Lester Pearson’s concept of ‘Development’ equipment Canada was purchasing for use in just like losing cash out of your wallet. peacekeeping. This concept is being sorely Claiming Canada’s new aggressive military Afghanistan and consider whether we would not Once registered, you have some abused, with the same audacity as when the ‘missions’ are consistent with our peacekeeping ORWELLIAN, please turn to page 6 protection against loss or theft. ✐ Page 2, ISLAND TIDES, April 17, 2008 Commentary by Patrick Brown Carbon tax versus cap-&-trade ith worldwide acceptance of the connection between emissions which are least expensive to reduce are reduced. But increasing accumulations of greenhouse gases (GHG) the net cost of GHG reduction becomes part of the cost of AT FULFORD HARBOUR Win the atmosphere and global climate change, many whatever product the organization produces. In the end, the APRIL/MAY governments are moving to regulate GHG emissions through customer pays the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. systems of economic incentives. The discharge of carbon dioxide It’s no longer an ‘externality’. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. (CO2) into the air has traditionally been regarded by economists A New and Financially Significant and accountants as an ‘externality’, a use of the ‘commons’, and 0238 10.5 3.2 0158 9.2 2.8 Market 16 0907 5.9 1.8 24 0503 9.5 2.9 having no cost. Now it is very rapidly being priced and in many WE 1435 8.2 2.5 TH 1302 2.0 0.6 parts of the world is regarded as a significant factor in the cost of As ‘cap-&-trade’ takes hold, it is becoming clear that the market 2009 4.9 1.5 2149 10.5 3.2 carrying on business and other everyday activities. for emission permits has the potential to be as large and 0303 10.2 3.1 0323 9.2 2.8 Driven by targets established in the Kyoto protocol, most financially significant as markets for equity or debt, or for energy 17 0934 4.9 1.5 25 0508 9.2 2.8 and raw materials, and equally important as a driver for business TH 1549 8.5 2.6 FR 1341 2.0 0.6 major industrial countries have considered the taxation of 2058 5.6 1.7 2239 10.5 3.2 carbon dioxide and equivalent emissions as an incentive to and national economic decisionmaking. Like any such market 0322 9.8 3.0 1425 2.3 0.7 reduce them. operating in the currencies of the day, it is also vulnerable to 18 1001 3.9 1.2 26 2326 10.5 3.2 As an alternative, governments have considered the fraud, manipulation, the development of obscure derivatives, FR 1650 9.2 2.8 SA and the ingenuity of corporations, speculators, and brokers. It 2143 6.6 2.0 establishment of strict limits, or caps, on industrial emissions, may also have, as some economists have pointed out, the 0338 9.8 3.0 1513 2.6 0.8 combined with market-based systems whereby permits to emit 19 1026 3.3 1.0 27 GHGs may be traded to encourage the adoption of technology uncertainty and volatility of a market which has established firm SA 1744 9.5 2.9 SU limits on the quantity of product (permits to emit GHGs) 2229 7.2 2.2 which would reduce emissions. The latter are known as ‘cap-&- trade’ systems. (A ‘permit’ may be regarded as a government available at any given time. 0354 9.8 3.0 0008 10.5 3.2 20 1053 2.6 0.8 28 1609 3.3 1.0 authorization to discharge one tonne of CO2 into the air.) The Role of Government SU 1832 9.8 3.0 MO Even in the United States, the only industrialized country not But because the market has, at its core, the pursuit of a public 2315 7.9 2.4 to have adopted the Kyoto Protocol, where the national objective through use of a public commons–the 0411 9.8 3.0 0044 10.5 3.2 government has opposed b0th carbon tax and cap-&-trade on atmosphere–there is a particularly strong argument for strict 21 1121 2.3 0.7 29 0811 7.5 2.3 MO 1920 10.2 3.1 TU 0926 7.5 2.3 the basis that the cost to the US economy would be too great, a government supervision of the market. 1711 3.9 1.2 number of states have initiated studies of various GHG taxation Government sets the ‘cap’ for each organization for each 0004 8.5 2.6 0115 10.2 3.1 and cap & trade alternatives. compliance period, and must have reliable information on the 22 0429 9.5 2.9 30 0806 6.6 2.0 The taxation of GHG emissions, even accompanied by actual emissions produced, and the permits used or traded. TU 1152 2.0 0.6 WE 1148 7.2 2.2 2008 10.5 3.2 1813 4.6 1.4 reductions in other taxes (‘tax shifting’) has met with little Government may also set an initial price for each permit, or may 0056 8.9 2.7 0140 10.2 3.1 political approval in most nations, despite its transparency and issue them for free, or may auction them, or some combination 23 0447 9.5 2.9 1 0820 5.6 1.7 simplicity. Current capitalist ideology favours the market-based of these methods. However they are distributed, there are WE TH 1225 1.6 0.5 1342 7.5 2.3 ‘cap-&-trade’ approach. (BC is unique in simultaneously available a limited number of permits, adding up to an overall 2058 10.5 3.2 1912 5.2 1.6 introducing both.) ‘cap’ for an industry, an area, or a state. ADD ONE HOUR FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME The Cap-&-Trade ‘Horse Trading’ The involvement of government introduces a whole new System range of possibilities for market distortion, ranging from Tides Tables Courtesy of administrative incompetence to political interference. One Island Marine Construction The principle of such a system is that each emitting operation illustration of this is the crash of the European Union’s market has a limited number of permits to emit CO2 in a given period, Floats • Ramps • Moorings • Pile Driving early in its life because ‘well-connected’ industries persuaded enough to meet its ‘cap’. Should it be able to reduce its emissions, governments to issue them more permits than they needed. Ph: 250-537-9710 Email: [email protected] by whatever means, it is free to sell the permits it does not need Nevertheless, learning from this experience, a second www.islandmarine.ca to other operations which find it more expensive to reduce their generation of government-supervised, market-based ‘cap-&- emissions (the ‘trade’). trade’ systems is being designed. Not only will such systems keep Naturally, if the cost of reducing its emissions is less than the complete records of permits and trading, but they will also be price at which it can sell its extra permits for, the operation will able to certify the integrity of emissions measurements. JAKOBSEN reduce its emissions. On the other hand, a permit buyer will It has been said that carbon taxation results in predictable ASSOCIATES purchase permits if their cost to him is less than it would cost costs, but unpredictable total emission reductions. On the other him to reduce his emissions. hand, ‘cap-&-trade’ results in predictable emission reductions, If actual emissions exceed those permitted in a given period, but its costs may be difficult to predict. ✐ government may fine or otherwise penalize the organization. Custom designs for Homes, Thus permits have value; they are, in fact, a new form of In our next edition, look for Patrick’s analysis of the BC Renovations, Interiors, commodity. government’s moves on carbon tax and cap-and -trade. and Vacation Homes The overall result for the atmospheric commons is that those

Keith Jakobsen www.jakobsenassociates.com 604.261.5619 [email protected] Court rules shed zoned C-1 Improv on Salt Spring Mr Justice Bracken of the BC Supreme Court has ruled that the Christina Estable shed on the dock at Port Washington, North , Theatre on these rocks, rocks. The GISS theatre improv team, should be entirely zoned C-1 Commercial. The ruling, dated April under the dedicated guidance of coach Jason Donaldson has 1, is the result of a trial in Victoria last November in which the made it big. Had you been at the Fulford ferry terminal when we North Pender Trust Committee sought a declaration that the part were, you would have seen a group of young people and a group of the shed south of the high water mark was in a Water Zone. of parents and fans, waving in synchronicity, as our team GULF ISLANDS WATER TREATMENT SOLUTIONS The trial was the latest chapter in a long-running dispute boarded the Skeena Queen on their way to … Ottawa. centering on the fact that the shed, originally built around 1910, The Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS) improv team, Well Water • Rain Water • Surface Water straddled the high water mark. The shed is 45 X 36 feet, of which Chak Estable, Halley and Lulu Fulford, Alex Corley, Praire 45 X 25 feet was located over a water lot. The landward side is on • Whole-house Treatment Mouat, Steve Dawson and alternate Tyan Loyola, are winners in a strip of property ten feet wide, while the water lot had been every way—in teamwork, attitude, enthusiasm, modesty, and • Self-cleaning Sediment Filters under the control of the federal government, to whom lease accomplishment. The team won the South Island, the payments were made over the years. Provincials and have now gone to the National Championship at • Media Filters The shed’s historical use was commercial as an adjunct to the the National Arts Center. • Ultraviolet Systems Port Washington Store, immediately to the north. Over the last Quite an accomplishment, not only for the team, but also for fifteen years, however, the building has been used as an office, Donaldson, drama teacher at GISS, who coaches the team at REMOVE: dive shop, and residence, an even, in 2002, as a vacation rental. 7:30am every Tuesday and Thursday. It takes a great deal of Iron / Odour / Bacteria / Hardness / Arsenic It is this use which originally gave rise to complaints to the Local commitment from the teens to keep to the rigorous training Trust Committee. schedule. The rehearsal I sat in on showed Donaldson watching, 320 Mary Street, Victoria (250) 412-1110 The owner of the shed, Ronald Hunt, claimed variously that the www.watertiger.net shed was on land shown as unzoned on zoning maps, or that IMPROV, please turn to page 7 because of the federal interest, North Pender’s zoning bylaws did MOTH from page 1 not apply. amphibians, bees and other insects. Btk is naturally present in Judge Bracken rejected Hunt’s argument that the shed was urban, forest and agricultural soil around the province. situated on unzoned land, and also confirmed that the federal The reformulated Foray 48B has been approved for use by interest was not strong enough to invoke immunity to local the Organic Materials Review Institute. Btk products are widely zoning bylaws under the Constitution Act. In this last declaration used by governments and farmers around the world to protect he referred to a recent decision concerning the B&B Ganges crops and natural areas. Marina on Salt Spring Island. The gypsy moth control program has prevented any He concluded that the shed, in fact, straddled the boundary widespread infestations from developing in BC since the moths between the C-1 zone, which extended south as far as the high were discovered in 1978. The program provides a specific water mark, and the water zone. However, he felt, to attempt to treatment response for each location. Gypsy moths pose a threat apply the permitted uses of the two zones to different parts of the to the province’s forests, orchards and urban trees. The moths are building would render the building unusable for any practical unintentionally brought to BC on vehicles and materials from purpose; thus his ruling that the entire building be zoned C-1. affected areas in eastern North America on an ongoing basis. The Judge Bracken did not rule on whether the uses to which the presence of moths can pose a quarantine threat and in 1999 shed is being put could be permitted under the zoning, leaving resulted in the US threatening to refuse shipments of trees and that to Mr Hunt and the Trust Committee to decide. ✐ plants from BC’s nurseries without additional certification. ✐

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• Excellent Wally Crabb references 250-655-6677 • Cell: 250-727-1026 [email protected] Authorized Dealer Peter Christenson • 250-629-8386 10425 Wilson Road (Sidney) www.shorelinedesign.ca ISLAND TIDES, April 17, 2008, Page 3 dance—experimenting with new form and jazz, building mud-houses, walking on stilts, Round The Islands style—some artists have been inspired to create making clothes and art, growing food, blowing Christa Grace-Warrick works especially for the exhibition. These into big brass instruments and dancing just to include Tina Farmilo, Andie C Wicherts and keep war. The locals of know construct a new public tennis court. The gynette_me from Mayne and Nancy how to keep themselves and others entertained. new court, like the old one, will be free for all Angermeyer from Saturna. All this shenanigans has developed into a … to enjoy. On April 25, the movers and shakers of circus! In April, Lasquirkus performed at Salt Bike Park on Pender? DanceArt, dancers Robbyn Scott and Anna Spring’s Beaver Point Hall and Hornby ’ve been thinking Haltrecht, will perform their popular work, The Community Centre. Billing themselves as the about how to get After buying mountain bikes for himself and his Lobby Dance, yes, in the lobby. wackiest variety show this side of the Georgia son a couple of years ago, Pender Islander Keith Imore fragments of More For The Youngsters Straight, event organizer Jen Gobby comments, our many Islands’ delicious news into Island Light was surprised to find that biking is not ‘We are catapulting ourselves out of the forest Tides. The obvious answer was to start up our allowed on any of Pender’s trails. As the Islands Things for kids to do is one way (affordable and into other communities to make contact ‘Round The Islands’ column again. roads are narrow with no shoulders and housing another) to attract young families to with the outside world and to show them what Now I’m going to need your help with this. therefore dangerous for cycling, the pair have live on the Islands (their parents are needed to we’ve been up to. We aim to entertain and As I was not born with second-sight, please had to go off-Islands for some fun. help with the labour and skills shortage). inspire our extended westcoast community, send in your tales and tidbits to However, Light then heard about an old Children’s festivals are springing up. Pender’s with the sense of hope found through laughter, [email protected]. My job will be to craft gravel pit on parkland that might just do for a very successful February festival is being joyous music and the inventive, resourceful them into brief snippets so that they fit into bike park. However his pleas for a bike park to followed by an April 27 Children’s Spring spirit that is Lasqueti Island.’ Now that’s Island Island Tides’ compact format. be allowed on the 20-30 acre site has so far Carnival on Bowen. This is the carnival’s fourth spirit— makes you want to run away to join the The news items should be able to interest, fallen on somewhat stoney ground. year. Last year it had 1,000 attendees, almost circus. amuse, inform, or inspire other Gulf Islanders The site is within the Gulf Islands National half from the Mainland. So it obviously helps Jane Rule’s Posthumous and south-east Vancouver Islanders. They Park Reserve (GINPR) but Light thinks that with those visitor dollars too. should bind Salish Sea dwellers together in that a bike park would be an appropriate use for This year’s carnival focuses on the Book spirit and understanding. They should not be this previously disturbed area, rather than environment; has a new venue, Crippen Park; will be the venue for a third merely promotional (that belongs in an saving it for its ecological importance. He says and has children’s entertainers, games, and celebration of well-loved Islander Jane Rule. A advertisement or in our powerful, subsidized his idea has support from local Islands rides galore. The event raises funds for Bowen’s launch party for Rule’s final book of essays ‘What’s On?’ column). They should also not Trustees, and the newly formed Recreation Family Place, a non-profit organization that Loving the Difficult will be held at the South breach people’s wish for privacy. All that said, Commission. He asks Penderites: parents, provides supportive programming for children End Hall (see What’s On? page 5 for details). it’s amazing how quirky and local things can grandparents and children to write the GINPR from birth to 6-years and their parents and Rule compiled the book in the months before have a powerful effect on like-minded souls far Advisory Board, at 2220 Harbour Road, Sidney caregivers. For the festival line-up, contact she died of complications from liver cancer, last and wide. I look forward to the e-mails—I might BC, V8L 2P6, voicing support. Valerie, 604-630-8993, [email protected], or November. Only eight of the thirty-eight essays be opening a delightful Pandora’s Box. Dance Month on Salt Spring Keona, [email protected], 604- had previously been published and most were 947-0302. written after she declared her retirement from Tennis Courts on Mayne ArtSpring is the venue for a showcase of dance Lasqueti Has No Ferry But fiction in 2000. The last piece, about the Mayne Island’s tennis court, up by the firehall, in April. The art gallery lobby is devoted to A Circus collapse of her famous swimming pool, was has been a well used, and well-worn, spot for ‘DanceArt’; twenty Salt Spring and Southern written only weeks before her death. many years. Now Mayne Island Community Gulf Island artists are showing their works. On an Island with no car ferry, it’s amazing Internationally acclaimed author of seven Centre Society has received $56,727 in Among the group are photographers, painters what residents will come up with to pass the community gaming grants to support efforts to and sculptors. In the spirit of contemporary time. 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This so-called ‘F1 solution’ would gift a residential use to each forest lot through a Fares blanket rezoning. Dear Editor: The issue of the forest lands on Galiano began when 16,500 copies this issue Oh, how I wish that all the energy being expended to protest ferry MacMillan Bloedel put their privately owned Galiano tree Every Second Thursday fare hikes could be focused on lowering greenhouse gases in our farm on the real estate market in 1990 as ‘An Investment in atmosphere and changing an economic system that keeps Big Oil Paradise.’ That land consisted of approximately 56% of SALISH SEA’S ONLY FREE & in business. Galiano’s land base. The Local Trust Committee of the day If only the ferry fare protesters understood the science and dealt with this major land-use upheaval by removing all use MAIL DELIVERY NEWSPAPER economics of global warming and the catastrophic impacts of except forestry, going all the way to the Appeal Court of climate change their grandchildren will face. If only they listened British Columbia to confirm the legitimacy of this planning 14,000 copies delivered to to the IPCC scientists who say that survival of the human species initiative. is at stake. Subsequent bylaws offered residential use through Southern Islands’ households If only BC Ferries lowered walk-on passenger fares and fares rezoning to one of several development options. Each relied for electric trucks supplying goods and services—and jacked up on the rezoning process to provide for such community passenger car rates (keeping us home to spend our money in our planning as a road network plan, covenants for sustainable own communities and leaving carbon where it should be), forestry and a lot-by-lot public process to take into account thereby enticing us onto public transit. both broad concerns of residents and specific concerns of Speaking of which, when the heck are we going to get public neighbours. transit that shows some understanding of global climate change? During discussion of the recently proposed bylaws, one If we don’t wean ourselves off fossil fuels very soon, our forest lot owner clarified that the residential density on the 2,500 copies on the Ferry Routes, grandchildren won’t give a damn how many times we visited island would not be increased by 96 houses because a third them on our ‘marine highway.’ Their lives will be hell, and we’ll of the forest lots already had houses built on them (in in Sidney,Victoria & north of the be to blame. Julie Johnston, Pender Island contravention of current zoning). This remarkable extent of Malahat to Nanaimo un-enforced bylaw infractions now stands to be forgiven and Bylaw Enforcement Not Big On rewarded by the pending bylaws. www.islandtides.com Galiano How strange for Galiano Islanders to see Trust Council ISLAND TIDES PUBLISHING Ltd Dear Editor: and Trust Staff spending scarce time and budget to improve Recently I attended the Islands Trust Council Quarterly meeting Trust-wide bylaw conformity to advance the preserve and Box 55, Pender Island, BC, V0N 2M0 on at which a Bylaw Enforcement and Litigation protect mandate. Meanwhile, the Galiano Trustees are Owner, Publisher & Editor: Christa Grace-Warrick Management Review, Final Report was presented and generously rewarding non-compliance with sweeping discussed. rezoning of forest plantations to residential use on 40% of Contributors: Patrick Brown, Priscilla Ewbank The irony is that this initiative to strengthen bylaw the island. This ignores lot-by-lot neighbourhood concerns Murray Dobbin, Al Maxwell, Susan Banjavich enforcement for the Trust as a whole coincides with the and comprehensive planning basics. ✐ Tel: 250-629-3660 • Fax: 629-3838 Galiano Trustees determination to impose new bylaws Linda Millard, Galiano Island Email:[email protected] & [email protected] Deadline: Wednesday Between Publications News From An Island ~ Priscilla Ewbank Off-Island Canadian Print Subscription $42.00 e have a glut of daffodils. The peak of production—you and baked in a big rotating oven or kiln and turned into a product Voluntary Mail & Box Pick-up Subscription $26.25 can pick all you want and you are past, ‘Oh look—a called Saturnalight that was used for making lightweight Wdaffodil!’ The gorgeousness of spring is this cycle of aggregate blocks, exported for building construction. Whole International Subs: $60.00 • Free online in PDF format surprise, novelty and satiation. families moved to the Island for the jobs. At that time housing Micro-organisms begin to flourish, and all that we take joy in was affordable and the school population bulged. sprouts and jumps into the air. Coming home from the Saturna Although many still remember, enough time has passed that Community Club meeting (way too late at night) we heard the te shale plant is now the topic of a ‘history’ talk—surprising to spring uproar of the frogs through the closed car windows from people who thought this was a just a period embedded in their Money’s cow pond! lives! All of the fall and late summer plantings of lettuces, kale, More personal history happens that evening, too. The Eddie chard, and purple sprouting broccoli are feeding us well. Right Reid Memorial Library is hosting ‘Telling Tales: Our Island, Our now miners lettuce and nettles are still delicious and a welcome Stories’ at the hall. Led by Frank Godwin, it will feature our wild addition to the table. The salmon berries are blooming away personal oral stories, weaving them into a collective historical and the male hummingbirds are roaring and rattling around. ‘map’. Frank is a storyteller at the Christmas Candlelight Dinner The turkey vultures are soaring in sky, blue then grey—they must and maintains that telling stories is what people love to do. be getting well-soaked in the spring rain bursts. Bring your stories about pets, family, or your rendition of why School Gardens someone or the government is doing something you like or don’t like! ‘In telling we make ourselves known; in listening, we let The School and Community garden is coming into bloom. For another into our life,’ says Frank. $50 community members can sponsor a 4-by-8 raised bed. The school kids are looking to plant in a more organized manner this National Park Liaison—Camping & Butler Gravel & year to provide greens and salads for themselves and possibly for Feral Goats visiting groups. School neighbour, Al Stonehouse, is head The Saturna Parks Canada Liaison Committee met with Parks Concrete…Better gardener, as he was last year. Al is organizing the kids, the Canada to expressed concern about the ‘no reservation’ system from the ground up! planting schedules, the pollinating insects and the seeding and no overflow plan for the seven new walk-in camp sites at Reliable Service, Quality Products beds—talk to Al if you see yourself as part of this school Narvaez Bay. Parks Canada explained that the small number of endeavour. campsites will allow them to keep on top of the situation. If an & Competitive Prices Funding & Fundraising issue develops, a prevention strategy will be developed. Parks Canada has had increased compliance with regulations on Serving All The Gulf Islands Thanks to the community for the buckets of pennies that have Cabbage and Tumbo Islands using routine checks. arrived at the school for donation to the Leukemia and Phone 250-652-4484 A lot of use is not expected at the new sites because park Lymphoma Association for research. The kids can count to 50 in Fax 250-652-4486 visitor numbers have dropped and so has camping, but Islanders their sleep after rolling up the pennies to take to the credit union. think that the campsites will be very popular in July and August. 6700 Butler Crescent, Saanichton, B.C. The Saturna Ecological Education Centre (SEEC) has A new map has been generated to show locations for campsite received a sizable Community Connections grant that will allow suitability on Saturna by evaluating various factors at each site. the program to begin planning and construction of residential Illio Bertolami and Richard Blagborne report a steady rate of facilities for visiting high-school students. Plans and consultation increase in the numbers of feral goats and the consequent with local residents is a first step. SEEC is still very interested in degradation in Brown Ridge’s habitat. THE ART & CRAFT OF SHELTER an off-the-grid-facility that is enmeshed in the local ecosystems. AUTHENTIC PRE-CRAFTED HOME PACKAGES... Eleven Brownies (6 and 7 years of age) and their 4 leaders Fire Department News OF THE UTMOST QUALITY. have just visited the centre. 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The Canadian SAT: 10am–5pm • Admission free • Info: fabulous days all about gardening; visit indoor & outdoor booths [email protected] • IN SIDNEY featuring seeds to trees, flowers & food, garden experts, Thyroid Cancer Support Group (Thry’vors) raises awareness and landscapers, furniture, art and more; daily workshops • Coombs offers support to patients. Saturday, April 19 Fairgrounds, Ford Road • 9am–3pm • Info or to book exhibit: ‘This disease has no age boundaries and can develop in men www.oceansidegardenshow.com, Debbie Schug 250-954-7434 • and women. Thyroid health affects all aspects of well-being for 20th Annual Earth Day Beach Clean- IN COOMBS Up—followed by live music, displays and the entire population yet very little attention is given to this small community round-table discussion: ‘Global Wednesday, April 30 but vital gland. 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ROUND THE ISLANDS from page 3 disasters (they’ve even been seen on race results and awards. Go to IMPROV from page 2 novels and three previous essay collections, day broom in hand). Stores donate food and http://activegaliano.org to sign up. guiding, and attentive to every emotional nuance and Rule was an absorbing story-teller, a wise prizes; the local ferry employees Earth Day In Nanaimo gesture with the trained eye of a theatre-saavy guy but also observer of human character, an astute consistently put together a team; the Nanaimo’s Bowen Park seems to be an ideal with the coddling care of a mother hen for her brood. political commentator and a fearless ambulance crew sits close by as all pray for place to celebrate Earth Day. On April 26 It is a tribute to the Salt Spring community that the GISS spokesperson for lesbian and gay rights. no accidents, and the local doctor (when not you will find native plants for your garden at team’s recent fundraising efforts were met with such She was a member of the Order of British on his bike) lends a helping hand. Local really good prices, and information on how enthusiastic and solid support. The team raised almost Columbia and the Order of Canada. B&Bs offer great rates, and numerous to build a house from mud and straw. You $8,000 in nine days to cover travel, hotel stay, and even Loving the Difficult is remarkable for its photographers create a great pictorial will meet people who are growing food in some food expenses. A packed audience at ArtSpring courageous honesty and that generosity of reminder of the triathlons. Every year BC their backyard, instead of buying it in brought in almost $4,000, including the raffle for ‘What's spirit that made Rule a mentor, role model Parks local operators put up with the California or Mexico (it is a long way to go in the Box,’ a staple of theatre improv evenings. The team and friend to thousands. competing needs of campers and for a head of lettuce). You will meet the also performed for a Mayne Island audience and were Triathalon Back on Track triathletes! Without the local kayak people from the Nanaimo Recycling likewise generously supported, in particular because team The Galiano spring triathalon (kayak, cycle, company there would be many paddlers ‘up Exchange, who can turn your plastic bags player Prairie is a Mayne Island girl. run) is back! For the first time since 2001, a creek without a paddle,’or paying big into plastic lumber, and your old tires into Some of you may be wondering how theatre could rock. organizer fatigue forced a break in 2007. bucks to rent off-Island. new rubber products, keeping as many Surely theatre belongs in the dusty realm of Shakespearean This year’s event with its emphasis on fun Here is organizer Janice Mason’s recap things as possible out of the landfill. repertoire? Because it is improv, every performance is and participation is slated for May 3. Rather of the event: The start, finish and transition Kids will be shown how to plant their unique, takes place in real time, and is not a cookie-cutter like the Saturna Regatta, the race has rules areas are all within the confines of own tree in the park near the stream, where experience. It simply cannot be reproduced. Team but there’s leeway in interpretation. The Montague Harbour Marine Park. First it will protect the fish. You can help them members need to know how to ‘read’ each other, work with ‘kayaking’ portion has been completed by comes an out-and-back ‘kayak’ route, pull ivy from the native trees, freeing the and around each other in any circumstance that comes up ocean, river, racing and homemade kayaks, totalling 3km on the sheltered ocean trees up to grow for another 200 years. You on stage. a canoe, wooden rowboat and an 8-oared alongside Galiano. Back at the beach the may even see some of the fish that live in the For example, if one player starts telling a story, instantly Spanish replica boat complete with 91-year 13km cycle begins. It becomes hilly after new stream, and learn how they need the the others assume the various roles mapped out. If one old coxswain. There have been racing road you warm-up on the fairly flat stretch out of river for the first half of their lives. member talks about a mountain the other members singly bikes, not-so-racy road bikes, mountain the park. The first hill is along Clanton Road If you have just arrived in Nanaimo and or in a joint effort become the mountain. The kids have a bikes, tandem bikes and even a unicycle up to Porlier Pass Road. South on Porlier would like to know where the walking trails grasp of sophisticated verbal and non-verbal cues and a and for the run there are those who sprint Pass Road you continue to climb, then a are, you will find maps to help you. If you theatrical vocabulary that they draw on to paint a very and there are those who walk. You can be quick downhill gets you almost to the want to join one of the local clubs, you will convincing picture for the audience. young (14 is the youngest thus far to stores/pub intersection. The final climb meet the members. This inter-active theatre invites the audience into the complete the entire event) or you can be not takes you to the top of Montague Road Hornby Blues Workshop realm of the storytelling by asking for suggestions and so young (one 76-year-old completed the where a flat, straight stretch greets you Like the Lasqueti circus, Hornby’s Island participation. The audience adds to the magic by laughing, entire route); you can participate as an before the pace changes to a steep and fast Blues Society is reaching out. In the spirit of sighing, clapping, or when called upon, foot-stomping, individual or join forces with friends, family long downhill which gets you almost back to the groups’ mission to ‘create a greater thigh-slapping or finger-snapping to provide the acoustic or co-workers as a relay team with 2 or the beach. On this stretch braking is awareness of Canadian Blues music and the environment—rain on a tent roof was used in the ArtSpring more participants. optional, though a really good idea if you depth of talent of Canadian musicians,’ this evening. This is an event with total Island are a little uncomfortable reaching speeds year’s 9th Blues Workshop in May will Another way that the audience participates is in involvement. The Coast Guard has been an of 80kph (clocked a few years ago). include a concert component in Duncan suggesting what themes the team explores on stage. Two almost constant presence, as have North Once you get off your bike, it is on to the and Campbell River—The Blues Odyssey. seasoned players, no longer on the team, constantly and South Galiano Volunteer Fire trail for the last 5 km of the event. This is an The week-long Blues Workshop itself roamed the audience encouraging suggestions. They ask for Departments, and RCMP officers. The undulating, oceanside run that provides covers a wide variety of instruments and the team to act out a fairytale in gibberish (no English Lions help out with route patrol, the you with a scenic loop of Montague Park blues playing styles for students of all levels. please). Sounding like a bunch of SIMS on the laptop, the Activity Centre president is known to flip before an out-and-back rural road segment. For more info, you can call organizer Roy kids create a recognizable story. burgers; the highways department insures Back at the beach everyone joins in on some Doucette,s 250-335-1958 or visit Amusing and entertaining, in any language, ‘One that the corners are swept to avert cycling delicious barbeque treats while awaiting the http://www.hornby-blues.bc.ca/. ✐ Awesome Team.’ ✐ Page 8, ISLAND TIDES, April 17, 2008 A day up the creek ~ Priscilla Ewbank athy Reimer from Salt Spring Island We all strained to see the way the gravel was came over and gave Saturna Ecological sort of fresh-looking with less algae growth, or KCentre students a Streamkeepers mounded, or the gravel slightly unnaturally workshop. Kathy has a passion for the local same-sized. Kathy assured the group that once cycle-of-life and a determination to share it. you have seen a recent nest your eyes know Long before it was common, Kathy was full- what to look for. bore reclaiming and Apparently, many species of studying creeks on Salt fish like to build nests just Spring. She was one of where the pond-like parts of the the first people to come stream turn to rapids. to Saturna to work with Cutthroat trout—local and sea Rick Jones when he and run—build redds and lay eggs others became about four inches below the interested in restoring gravel, while chum salmon’s are the salmon run along deeper, from 12 to 18 inches. Lyall Creek, about 15 We could tell from the eggs years ago. being hatched at the school that Streamkeepers is an hatching hadn’t taken place so initiative of Fisheries the kids had to stay out of the and Oceans Canada. stream as much as possible. Since 1996, thousands The afternoon was spent of British Columbia with buckets, tape measures, KATHY REIMER residents have been thermometers, chemicals, walk trained using the lines—all instruments to collect Streamkeepers methodology. baseline information. The ping-pong ball test to As volunteer streamkeepers, citizens are calculate rate of flow garnered the most able to monitor and evaluate stream conditions, participation and delight. How many seconds and alert authorities when there are problems does the ball take to float down a specified with local streams. distance? Repeat five times and average. At the Saturna workshop, the creek under Kathy explained that the actual survival of a study was, of course, our famous-for-its-health, creek might depend on such calculations— Lyall Creek. Kathy spent the morning in the determining whether it falls within regulatory classroom describing how you learn to ‘read’ a guidelines that allow it to be diverted and creek’s health. The kids saw how to check for destroyed or logged over. turbidity, assess the composition of the creek The second day focused on insects and food bottom, amount of oxygen in the water, rate of chains. Each of the cobbles, pebbles and flow, amount of total flow, biology, hydrology boulders picked up out of the stream, examined and chemistry. and gently returned, had caddis fly and stone fly In the afternoon, Kathy and our gumbooted larvae and something called ‘scuds,’ a water- PHOTO: Priscilla Ewbank school, with two teachers and their five students thriving bug. Students evaluate Lyall creek during a hands-on Streamkeepers workshop. from Reynolds School in Victoria, descended This kinds of hands-on learning with into the riparian area, lugging gear. Kathy someone who is passionate, and shares skills exclaimed, ‘There is a chum salmon redd (egg and observations is invaluable—the students nest), there is a year-old cut throat trout redd.’ were very fortunate. ✐ Premier ducks question of ferry safety Following the firing of a ferry captain for a recommendations,’ noted Coons. ‘The public recent close call in Active Pass, North Coast needs more than a commitment from BC MLA Gary Coons stepped up the pressure on Ferries. They want a commitment from this the government to force BC Ferries to enact all government, from this Premier and from the the recommendations found in the Morfitt Minister responsible.’ Report. In the absence of the Transportation The Morfitt recommendations included Minister, Coons fired off questions (in question basic safety controls to ensure that staff are period) to Premier Campbell, demanding qualified for the positions they are assigned to, accountability on behalf of ferry dependent and ensuring crew have access to safety communities. training. ‘I visited 30 ferry-dependent communities ‘The recent near-collision in Active Pass on the coast of BC, and everywhere I heard with a contracted-out captain at the helm major concerns about fares and operational highlights Morfitt’s concerns with on-time safety,’ said Coons. ‘Since the Minister of management performance bonuses Transportation has washed his hands of the compromising operational safety. On-time marine highway, what is the Premier doing to payouts are a key goal in performance measure ensure that BC Ferries on-time bonuses do not for this government’s quasi-privatized compromise safety and put passengers and corporation,’ noted Coons. ‘The Morfitt report crew at risk?’ addresses the danger of prioritizing schedules The Premier declined to comment. His over lives.’ silence on the topic is indicative of his lack of Although the Morfitt report was delivered interest in the safety and well being of people in more than a year ago, little action has been ferry dependent communities, according to taken on many of the recommendations, says Coons. Coons. Sponsored by WWWBCBOATSFORSALE.COM- ‘Your online source for boats for sale in BC’ ‘Morfitt’s safety audit had 41 ‘These are common sense regulations that recommendations that would reassure public can save lives,’ Coons adds, ‘I don’t understand confidence in our ferry system. This why the Premier won’t stand up for ferry FUEL-EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE WOOD HEATING government and this Premier have stated that dependent communities, and demand that BC Ferries has committed to implementing every last one of the Morfitt recommendations every single one of the Morfitt is enacted immediately.’ ✐ CRD takes lead on septic system maintenance The Capital Regional District has adopted enrichment of sensitive water bodies. 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