• 1 • ' ' 129 TUcPhiUtl ' T V8K *T< S I Spring ' Wednesday 01/01 '2" ' January 12,200 418' year Gulf I Issue 2 Office: 328 Lower Ganges Road, Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K2V3 Tel: 250-537-9933 Fax: 250-537-2613 e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.gulfislttnds.net c^L P*i Creating landmarks in paint Salt Spring artist Susan Pratt portrays island sights in beautiful, vivid colour. Page id BATTLING THE BLAZE: Salt Spring-Island volunteer firefight­ teers arrived on the scene around 10:30 Saturday morning. Cause ers work to bring a fire at The Cottage Resort under control. One of the fire, which gutted one side of the duplex, is still under Intimate side of the duplex was engulfed in flames by the time the volun­ investigation. Pholo bv [>rru, I u-v Jv theatre experience Barges break free in wind, Deo Toole is Irene Flames gut Ruddock in an upcoming perfor­ wreak havoc in Duck Bay mance of Lady of Letters directed by resort duplex By MIKE LEVIN ings sometime around 8 be easy to round them up Margaret Jardine and Driftwood Staff a.m. but then the tug lost con­ A Saturday morning fire ripped through a vacation produced by Lynda No one knows how the Jane Winter was one of trol." duplex at The Cottage Resort on Saint Mary Lake, Jensen. anchor lines snapped on a the first to see them bear­ The vessels were empty gutting one side and severely damaging the other. Page JL \J pair of barges sitting at ing down on Duck Point in and easily pushed by west­ A visiting couple from Vancouver escaped injury by Fletcher Challenge's "very, very rough seas" at erly winds reportedly as fleeing the adjacent unit and alerting Salt Spring's fire strong as 70 to 80 kilome­ depanment at about 10:30 a.m. The room in which the Crofton pulp mill. about 8:30 a.m. But by the time Sunday "We could see them tres per hour blowing Index fire started was unoccupied. across Stuart Channel. morning's strong winds drifting hard when we got Alex Mitchell 28 The man, who happened to be resort owner Pearl "They just kept coming finished with them, the up. The (Howe Sound Alistair Ross 22 Gray's son Jason, was woken by a strange noise in the closer and closer. The first barges had cut a destruc­ Queen) went right over to Arts 13 adjoining room. When he went to investigate he saw one drifted past into the tive swath through Salt Classifieds 24 the fire streaming through the unit's roof. them to check it out and a bay and the second one Spring's Duck Bay and tug was trying to attach a Crossword 4 "It was fortunate he recognized the bang as some­ gently crunched up on the crushed at least two docks. line," Winter said from her Editorials 8 thing out of the ordinary. A tourist might have thought rocks below us," Winter The 90-foot (41-metre) Mountain Park Drive Gail Trafford 22 BLAZE 2 BARGES 3 barges slipped their moor­ home. "1 thought it would Horoscope 23 Hubert Beyer 10 Letters 9 Sports 20 Protest helps shift Texada TV Listings 11 What's On 16 conflict into clearer focus Weather By MIKE LEVIN ations manager Brent confrontational, the episode The weatherman (or Driftwood Staff Kapler refused to ask Salt created a focus lacking in woman) predicts Texada Land Corporation Spring RCMP Sgt. Paul previous meetings. rain and snow right and Salt Spring groups Darbyshire to break up the "This isn't about logging, through the weekend opposed to clear-cutting are protest. this is about our opposition with highs up to 7C. beginning to find common "I'm not into confronta­ to clear-cutting. We have to on Wednesday and ground following a logging- tion. They can stand in front tell them we'll continue lows down to IC. on truck blockade early of the truck all day if they doing this if that's what it Friday. January 5 that could have want," Kapler said in the takes to stop it," said Robert turned ugly. morning chill. Osborne, a Direct Action Close to 100 protesters The event would have Committee organizer. The Internet Gateway gathered at the corner of finished there had not one The committee feels that to the Gulf Islands Burgoyne Bay and Fulford- protester vandalized the Texada's rate of cutting http://www.gulfislands.iiet Ganges roads to block a vehicle. (estimated at three-to-fivc Gulf Islands ,. .._ laden Texada truck on its Kapler and company acres a day) has pushed it way to Burgoyne Bay's forester Julian Dunster into the clear-cutting arena. Online Dunster said it was well marine unloading site. spent the hour before the INTO CUSTODY: RCMP Sgt. Paul Darbyshire, right, within managed forestry Under the eye of the truck's arrival answering and Cst. Jamie Tretriak 'escort' protestor David guidelines. RCMP the event stayed questions about the extent Shebib into a police vehicle at last Wednesday's peaceful after Texada oper­ of Texada's cutting. While CLEAR-CUT PROTEST 5 protest against clear-cut logging. ma»byotmtiwidr WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2000 N E W S B E AT GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD STUMPED: Ian Marcotte of JJM Road Maintenance removes a maple branch and other debris from the pavement near the far end of Rainbow Road. Maintenance crews were busy Sunday morning after high winds ripped through the islands. 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Gusting to 80 kilometres per hour, the wind Ganges Coast Guard had a strange incident helping knocked out power on most of the islands. tugboats from the Fletcher Challenge mill round up "It's nothing like we had last year but it kept us two drifting barges and were also busy with pleasure You WHO? hopping," said B.C. Hydro's field manager Murray craft that broke from their moorages. Smith. At least one car accident was indirectly caused by There were two major power outages Sunday when weather conditions, and snowfall on Sunday and wind knocked trees through feeder lines near Beddis Monday mornings gave several drivers some bad Road and on Sunset Drive. moments. COTTAGE BLAZE From Page 1 HOW TO il was just someone piling wood," said resort owner Pearl Gray. By the time firefighters arrived the roof was totally engulfed. Six REACH US trucks were needed to battle the blaze. 'The one side was completely out of control and by the time we fin­ Use the telephone extension ished the other side had bums along the ceiling and heavy water dam­ number of the person you age," said deputy fire chief Dan Akerman. wish to reach for calls during The cause of the fire is under investigation although Akerman said it is office hours, and after hours not considered suspicious. You are this week's winner of a return flight on Gray said she was comforted by the department's quick response because the for faster access to our voice day's strong winds could easily have spread the fire to neighbouring buildings. mail system. The unit will probably take two months to repair but should be ready for the start of the resort's high season in April. French, Claudia 202 HARBOUR AIR'S Levin, Mike 208 VANCOUVER SERVICES* Lundy, Susan 209 BREAK NEW GROUND IN THE McCully, Peter 215 GANGES to VANG AmTOKllMONTAGUE to VANG AIRPORT NEW YEAR...EARLY! 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