$ 25 1(incl. GST) Wednesday, May 9, 2007 47TH YEAR ISSUE 19 Salt Spring Centre School kids get ready for their turn at the Maypole. Photo by Derrick Lundy YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1960 DriftwoodGULF ISLANDS Community Cookbook | inside Garage Sales | 41
[email protected] www.gulfislands.net Gas Index Arts ............................ 17 Classifieds ................. 38 prices Editorials .......................8 Ferry Schedules ........ 35 Health ......................... 34 Horoscope .................. 41 over Letters ......................... 9 Sports ......................... 35 TV Listings ................. 19 the top What’s On.................. 26 No rhyme or reason for exorbitant costs -/24'!'%15%34)/.3 ASK!RLENE By STACY d CARDIGAN SMITH Driftwood Staff ",/ At $1.36 a litre, Salt Spring is at the top of the charts for *"/ gas prices in Canada, if not North America. “It sucks. It really sucks,” Weather said Pierre St. Pierre as he fi lled up his Econoline 150 WHAT’S THE BUZZ?: Fulford valley beekeeper Dave Harris is not yet worried about stories of declin- Daily doses of sunshine van on Tuesday afternoon ing honeybee populations, while others in southern B.C. have sounded an alarm about serious colony with just a few clouds at Save-on-Gas. “I miss my decline. Photo by Derrick Lundy tomorrow (Wednesday). motorbike.” Highs to 18 (Friday); But before islanders place overnight lows to 7 the blame on local stations, (Thursday). Shell station owner Blaine Trouble in the honey hive Johnson said his cost is directly determined by his By SEAN MCINTYRE the Fulford Valley. His family’s mod- endless parade of viruses and mites. suppliers. Driftwood Staff est organic honey operation is more Once critters are dealt with, apiarists Inserts Both Shell and Payless are Salt Spring Island beekeepers may of a hobby than anything else, though can only hope the weather will coop- • Thrifty Foods supplied by Shell Canada but be among the fi nal holdouts as a mys- the family sells its surplus at a road- erate.