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h Canadian Publications Mail Product Volume 17 Number 17 Your Coastal Community Newspaper September 8—September 21, 2005 Sales Agreement Nº 1047655 Tide tables 2 CBC 2 Letters 4 Saturna notes 7 Black gold 8 Trips 9 Bulletin board 11 Arsonist plagues Galiano property Just after midnight on August 27, an unknown person set fire to property at 15 Morgan Road on Galiano. This is the third time this year and the second time in one month that fires have been deliberately set at that address. The owners were off-Island at the time of the fire. The flames fully consumed a trailer and building materials. There was approximately $10,000 worth of damage. Photo: Priscilla Ewbank Outer Gulf Islands RCMP are seeking information that may lead to the A day-long, grand opening celebration was held on August 20 for Saturna’s new recreation centre. See ‘Saturna Notes,’ page 7. identification of the party or parties responsible. Anybody with such information should contact Constable PIRAHA applies to put wins Komas Bluffs court case Hilderley at 250-539-2309, or call CrimeStoppers at 250-338-8477. i Pender recreational On August 31, The Supreme Court of British January 2005 and Denman Islanders provided Columbia released Reasons for Judgement affidavits in support of the Islands Trust’s case. that decided a significant court case in favour of ‘We are extremely pleased that the courts Re-negotiate facilities on the tax roll the Islands Trust, one that confirms the ability have upheld the bylaws on Denman Island that At a special meeting on August 28, the board of Pender of local governments in BC to enforce preserve and protect this sensitive area,’ said NAFTA or exit Island Recreational & Agricultural Hall Association development permit areas. David Essig, chair of the Islands Trust. ‘While (PIRAHA) voted unanimously to request that the In his Reasons for Judgement, Mr Justice this case has been a costly one for us to pursue, agreement says Capital Regional District take over ownership and Groberman granted the Islands Trust’s request it really went to the heart of the work we do and management of its two properties, for a clear declaration that Dean Ellis I believe all of Trust Council was behind it. Green Party Community Hall and Auchterlonie Centre. The CRD unlawfully contravened the Local Government We hope it sends a message to others who would hold the properties in trust in perpetuity for all Act by altering the land in the Komas Bluff may ignore the bylaws that protect sensitive Canada should serve the six-month Pender Island residents and would create a Development Permit Area without a lands in the Islands Trust Area. I believe this notice required to withdraw from Recreational Facilities Service for the Island, for which development permit from the Denman Island case has demonstrated the strength of the NAFTA to show it is serious about re- an assessment would be included in property taxes. Local Trust Committee. Citing Mr Ellis’s Islands Trust federation. Resources from all negotiating a better fair trade A CRD bylaw has been drawn up which would ‘persistence in violating the legislation’ in the the islands enabled us to take the necessary agreement with the United States and transfer the Association’s properties and allow the CRD face of warnings from the Islands Trust, Justice action when an individual on one island Mexico, says Green Party of Canada to levy to a maximum of 10¢ per $1,000 of property Groberman has also placed a permanent attempted to circumvent the provisions of that Deputy Leader, Andrew Lewis. assessment—currently equivalent to $27 annually per injunction against him that restrains him from Island’s land use regulation. I also want to ‘Canada has an opportunity to take average household. cutting trees, clearing, developing, excavating recognize the hard work of our staff and legal the initiative for a new round of fair Once passed by the CRD Board on September 14, or otherwise altering lands within 50 metres of counsel in arriving at this successful trade negotiations, and avoid an Bylaw Nº 3305, Pender Island Recreational Facilities Komas Bluff. conclusion.’ unnecessary trade war of escalating, Service Establishment Bylaw, Nº1, 2005 will be The case dates back to 2002, when Justice Groberman has asked the parties in punitive tariffs,’ Lewis told a meeting of brought to referendum at the local government members of the Denman Island community the case to provide evidence about the scope of Green Party members in Nanaimo. election on November 19. complained that Dean Ellis was removing trees remedial work required to stabilize the area, ‘A Green Party government would If the bylaw is approved for referendum, PIRAHA from portions of his property that were within although he has recognized that it would be take firm, prompt action on this issue. will hold a community information meeting explaining a buffer area, established by the Denman impossible to rebuild eroded slopes and restore Our forest industry has already lost their proposal. Island Local Trust Committee through a a mature forest. Once such evidence is more than $4-billion to illegal tariffs on PIRAHA, a venerable institution of which all Pender development permit to protect the unstable provided, the court will require Mr Ellis to softwood lumber,’ said Lewis. residents are automatically members, owns and slopes of Komas Bluff. Investigations by perform the necessary work. In addition to ‘The Green Party of Canada has administers the 5-year-old Community Hall and the Islands Trust Bylaw Enforcement Officers standard costs that the Court would normally consistently called for withdrawal from nearby Auchterlonie Centre. The Auchterlonie Centre confirmed the complaints were valid. Mr Ellis award to the Islands Trust, Justice Groberman NAFTA if the bilateral agreement property was the original site of the Pender school, and was advised by Islands Trust staff about the also indicated his inclination to award special cannot be successfully renegotiated to the school house and a portable still remain. The buffer area and the need to obtain permits costs to the Islands Trust, given ‘a deliberate protect Canada’s sovereign right to library building, the third building on that parcel, was before removing trees. flouting of the bylaw for personal profit.’ Both protect our industries, workers and constructed some 15 years ago. The Auchterlonie When Mr Ellis continued to remove trees parties may make further submissions before environment. Centre currently houses three community groups, the from the buffer area, the Islands Trust filed a the matter of special costs is finally decided. ‘Increasing trade disputes with the Library, the Nu-To-Yu thrift store, and the Playgroup. legal claim against him in September 2003, ‘It was a very important case for the Islands US, over wheat, steel, and now lumber seeking an injunction and an order for PIRAHA, please turn to page 3 TRUST WINS, please turn to page 2 NAFTA, please turn to page 8 restoration. The case went to court in late DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL MAGIC LAKE WATERFRONT COTTAGE FOR SALE This west facing 950 sq.ft. cottage on a 16,000 Development sq.ft. serviced lot (Pender Island) is ready for Live & Work opportunity on your family's full time or recreational living. In Paradise Pender Island. Bustling The cottage is in excellent condition with two bedrooms,one bath and a propane fireplace.Comes community, fully furnished,including the pool table. 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Page 2, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005 The CBC: attack from within ~ Patrick Brown t’s now been over two weeks since CBC management lines. It is the lead government agency in both the provision of decided to bring their long-running contract negotiations information to Canadians and the care of the nation’s culture. It with the union to a head by locking-out their production, is, in every sense of the word, an essential service, a prime AT FULFORD HARBOUR Itechnical, and on-air staff. It is suggested that the reason CBC responsibility of the federal government. Canadians have a right chose to implement its lockout in the dog days of August was to to its continuing operation. SEPTEMBER avoid the possibility of a strike in hockey season, during an The CBC is not just another broadcasting service. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. election, or during the Olympics. (The last three work stoppages Commercial broadcasters would like us to believe that taxpayer 0020 5.9 1.8 0710 1.6 0.5 at the CBC were lockouts, not strikes.) This lockout is destructive support makes it a form of unfair competition to them for 0610 8.9 2.7 1540 10.8 3.3 and irresponsible. listeners and viewers. 06TU 14WE 1200 5.2 1.6 2050 9.2 2.8 There were no negotiations between August 15, the start of It is not. MA 1835 10.2 3.1 ME the lockout, and August 31. As I write this, the CBC and its union, Neither are the commercial broadcasters competition for the 0050 4.9 1.5 0005 9.5 2.9 0710 8.9 2.7 0805 1.6 0.5 the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), seem to be talking again. The CBC. Their objective is only to make a profit; the CBC’s 07WE 1230 6.2 1.9 15TH 1610 10.8 3.3 Corporation has offered more money, but the real sticking point objectives are to bring Canadians a Canadian viewpoint on the ME JE 1845 10.2 3.1 2120 8.5 2.6 is its insistence that any new contract give the CBC the absolutely news, and to support and communicate the full range of 0130 4.3 1.3 0130 9.8 3.0 unrestricted right to hire key creative personnel on short-term Canadian culture—and that includes sports. 0825 8.9 2.7 0900 2.0 0.6 08TH 1300 7.2 2.2 16FR 1635 10.8 3.3 contract, rather than offer them secure employment. Neither CBC management nor its union have any right to JE 1900 10.2 3.1 VE 2155 7.5 2.3 These positions include all producers, directors, announcers, interrupt this service. Whatever the substance of their dispute, it 0210 3.6 1.1 0255 9.8 3.0 hosts, and key technical staff. In rebuttal, the employees’ union is their responsibility to the nation to continue both the quantity 0950 8.9 2.7 0945 2.3 0.7 points to the importance of experience, teamwork, continuity, and the quality of the service. 09FR 1340 8.2 2.5 17SA 1700 10.8 3.3 VE 1915 10.2 3.1 SA 2235 6.2 1.9 security, and commitment in these positions. These are vital to Unreliable Government Funding both the employees and to public broadcasting. 0300 3.0 0.9 0410 9.5 2.9 But over the past few years, the federal government has failed to 1135 9.2 2.8 1025 3.3 1.0 Robert Rabinovitch, the CBC’s lame-duck president and ensure that the CBC has any level of stable, adequate, and 10SA 1435 8.9 2.7 18SU 1720 10.8 3.3 CEO*, writes in the Globe and Mail that the Corporation needs SA 1930 10.2 3.1 DI 2320 4.9 1.5 predictable financing. It has repeatedly played games with this ‘flexibility’ to develop new programming on new ‘platforms’ funding announcements, and encouraged successive 0355 2.6 0.8 0525 9.5 2.9 (besides radio and TV, the internet, podcasts, satellite radio, etc). 1315 9.8 3.0 1110 4.6 1.4 generations of CBC management increasingly to adopt 11SU 1610 9.5 2.9 19MO 1740 10.8 3.3 But over the past few years, the CBC has not been short on industrial management practices, both the best and the worst. DI 9.8 3.0 LU 1945 innovation, despite the fact that, according to the union, 30% of These appear to include periodic and serious threats to 0455 2.3 0.7 0000 3.9 1.2 CBC employees do not have permanent status, a higher employee job security. 1420 10.2 3.1 0635 9.5 2.9 percentage than in private sector broadcasting networks. 12MO 1915 9.8 3.0 20TU 1150 5.9 1.8 But CBC employees are the people who must carry out the LU 2050 9.8 3.0 MA 1805 10.8 3.3 An appropriate parallel to the CBC might be that of a difficult mandate of the public broadcaster, creatively, effectively 0605 2.0 0.6 0045 3.3 1.0 symphony orchestra, where the quality of the product is always and, yes, efficiently. Their work, unfortunately, will not always be 1505 10.5 3.2 0750 9.5 2.9 more important than the quantity. This week, the orchestra gives appreciated. Politicians, in particular, will sometimes find CBC 13TU 2025 9.5 2.9 21WE 1240 7.2 2.2 a superb performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Next MA 2220 9.5 2.9 ME 1825 10.5 3.2 journalists a thorn in their side. week, the orchestra is scheduled to record Schubert, so the ADD ONE HOUR FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME So if CBC employees are to carry out their responsibilities, orchestra business manager decides to replace the conductor, they must be assured that they can expect secure careers in Tides Tables Courtesy of the first violins, and half of the woodwinds with players who public broadcasting. That is the trust that is being destroyed in Island Marine Construction recently performed Schubert with another orchestra, and send this dispute. the previous string section back on unemployment insurance. Floats • Ramps • Moorings • Pile Driving CBC management have already demonstrated that their ‘Don’t call us; we’ll call you.’ promise of continuity of service during a work stoppage was a Ph: 250-537-9710 Fax: 537-1725 The CBC can’t be run this way, either. pitiful bluff. Radio has been reduced to a third rate commercial www.islandmarine.ca Canada’s Lead Information and service, without commercials. CBC-TV has become repeated Cultural Agency repeats, but with commercials. But probably the real reason for this most destructive approach The CBC must return to full operation now; it belongs to all to personnel policy lies in a CBC statement that the lockout is Canadians, not management or the union. That should make it, ‘critical to protect the future interests of the business.’ first and foremost, the Prime Minister’s concern. Nonsense. The CBC is not a business. It has a financial (*Readers will find Mr. Rabinovitch’s job advertised in the i bottom line, but it has other, and far more important, bottom August 20, 2005 Canada Gazette. Anyone may apply.) Remove logging propaganda from ferry terminal, says Wilderness Committee ‘I almost gagged on my gelato cone when I noticed the Rebuttal: This statement is carefully crafted to join government-sponsored logging propaganda displays in the new ‘economic’ and ‘environmental reasons’ together. Again, about ‘Tsawwassen Quay’ ferry terminal building yesterday,’ stated a half of BC’s forests are economically unproductive (ie. bogs, flabbergasted Ken Wu, campaign director of the Western rocky, subalpine, northern) that’s the ‘economic’ reason, while Canada Wilderness Committee in Victoria. ‘Taxpayer-funded only a tiny fraction of BC’s productive forests (8%) is in our parks green-washing of the logging industry’s destruction of old- system. The vast majority of BC’s productive forests are slated growth forests is totally inappropriate at the ferry terminal.’ for logging. Photos and three question-and-answer displays about the Sign: ‘BC has 12 million hectares of protected lands where state of BC’s forests are mounted in the central aisle in the no forestry, mining, or industrial development is allowed.’ Tsawwassen Quay. ‘The gist of the text and photos conveys the Rebuttal: Most of those 12 million hectares consist of alpine message that ‘all is well in BC’s forests’ and that BC’s forests, tundra, subalpine marginal forests, and bogs. Only about 3 wildlife, and endangered species are being managed million hectares of our parks consist of productive forests. The sustainably,’ said Wu. The WCWC’s rebuttal to some of the signs ‘12 million hectare figure misleads readers into thinking that 12 follow: million hectares of ‘productive forests’ are saved, since the ferry Sign: ‘We log a fraction of one percent of our forests each year.’ terminal displays focus on the forest industry which only Rebuttal: We log far more than ‘a fraction of one percent’ operates in productive forests. Call Us Toll Free for Quotes on: when you look at productive forests (ie. the big treed, biologically Sign: ‘Research proves wood is the best building choice for • Homeowners • Farm diverse forests where logging occurs and where the greatest the environment.’ conservation values also occur). About half of BC’s forests are Rebuttal: The question is not whether wood per se should • Commercial • Bed & Breakfasts productive—the rest are non-commercial, marginal subalpine, be used for building, but rather wood from 500-year-old ancient Now in Three Locations: bog, rocky, and northern forests. 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Panel members include not Name of Love’—fun and educational activities only well-known figures such as Svend aimed at young and old, gay and straight to Robinson, Charley Beresford, Mary-Woo Sims, create a unifying community celebration. and Salt Spring Island-based writer Evelyn GLOSSI member John Godsman believes a White, but also two articulate and open locally organized Pride weekend is a wonderful members of the Gay-Straight Alliance, as well way to recognize Salt Spring’s diverse and open as their sponsor, Bill Turner. 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Page 4, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005 Time for Proactive Planning he Islands Trust has been in existence for thirty years, Island LTCs have long used this as a valid defense mechanism with a specific mandate written into the legislation that when they reviewed development proposals. This is no longer created it; a mandate to ‘preserve and protect’ the thirteen sufficient. Proactive planning for the future is urgently needed. 17,000 copies this issue IslandsT in the Islands Trust Area. This requires not only Most Island OCPs set out a series of general motherhood Every Second Thursday preserving and protecting the physical appearance of the objectives for development. But so far, few set out a vision of how www.islandtides.com Islands, but also the essence of island communities. the Island ought to be structured, and what the community Over the past few years, it has become increasingly apparent ought to be like in the future. Issues, such as maximum that if this mandate is to be carried out, it’s not enough merely to population, type, concentration, and location of housing, GULF ISLANDS’ ONLY FREE & consider Islands Trust Policies and Official Community Plans community facilities, extent of commercial and visitor MAIL DELIVERY (OCPs) when dealing with land use development applications. accommodation businesses, water and septic capacity, and NEWSPAPER In the face of rapidly increasing land prices and growth roads and transportation strategy, are not specifically planned. 8,500 copies pressures, Local Trust Committees (LTCs) must be prepared to Generally LTCs have taken the attitude that any activity that create and actively pursue a vision for the future of each Island. could not be controlled through the primitive urban land use delivered to In order to carry out land development in this province, the planning tools of zoning, density trading, and development Southern landowner or developer must make application to local permits was, unfortunately, beyond their authority. All they Islands’ government for any changes to zoning or subdivision that may could do was react to whatever proposals developers come up households be necessary. The various pieces of provincial legislation that with. Not so. An Island with a vision is an Island empowered. 8,500 copies on govern the conduct of municipal councils set out quite explicitly Each Island is different, and the Islands Trust structure the Ferry Routes the procedures required to ensure that landowners get a fair provides for the expression of those differences. And, because of hearing of their proposals. This legislation generally provides for the Islands Trust and its legislated mandate, future development Sidney,Victoria approval unless local government has specific reasons for it to be and island communities can and should be actively shaped by & north of the denied. Island LTCs are governed by this procedural legislation. local people and their representatives. Malahat to However, only in the Islands Trust area is there also a Looking ahead to the Islands Trust elections in November, Nanaimo legislated ‘preserve and protect’ objective, enshrined in the it’s time for all Islanders to express their vision of their Island, Islands Trust Act and further amplified in the Trust Policy and for that vision to dictate the actions of future Island ISLAND TIDES PUBLISHING Ltd Statement and in each Island’s OCP. Trustees. i Box 55, Pender Island B.C. V0N 2M0 Publisher & Editor: Christa Grace-Warrick Readers’ Letters Contributors: Patrick Brown, Priscilla Ewbank, Mike Logan, John Carlton Trevor Erikson, Peter Carter, Daisy Steggles, Guy Dauncey Islands Trust Nominations Coming business peeps. Don’t let people criticize you for this—after all, Telephone: 250-629-3660 Fax: 250-629-3838 Dear Editor: the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your Email: [email protected] & [email protected] On October 4, nominations will open for Islands Trustees. It finger in the dike? Deadline: Wednesday between publications seems to me no matter what you think about the Islands Trust, And don’t listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal the Trust is a voice, our voice. That voice is articulated by the how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' Off-Islands Canadian Subscriptions $42.80 budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. Voluntary Mail & Box Pick-up Subscriptions $21.40 trustees and, if we want the Trust to ‘preserve and protect,’ we had better nominate trustees that indeed can be trusted with this You just tell them that even if you hadn’t cut the money to fix mission. those levees, there weren’t going to be any Army engineers to fix On Thetis, where I live, the fear of uncontrolled development them anyway because you had a much more important What are your has finally taken hold and we are now struggling with many of construction job for them—building democracy in Iraq! the issues that people on other Islands have been struggling with On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to options? for some time. The time ahead of us on Thetis, and perhaps it’s say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot Find out from your not too late for the other Islands, is going to be critical for the descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you Gulf Islands’ alternative preservation and protection of these ‘Islands in the Salish Sea.’ could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn’t energy specialists The Islands Trust is being pushed harder and indeed its stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like ability and credibility tested. The individuals that we place in a commander in chief. Been there done that. Energy Options these positions of trust will be our voices in determining the There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and outcome of this test and indeed the future landscape of the try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that [email protected] 250-537-8371 Islands. out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who 364 Lower Ganges Rd., Salt Spring Island If we believe in preserving and protecting these Islands from predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of electrical contractors • solar • wind • microhydro systems the ravages of economic development, and we believe in Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this School District #64 maintaining the peace and tranquility of these Islands for inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken generations to come, then I suggest we get behind the Islands (Gulf Islands) Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so Trust, and support those candidates who do not have a wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from TEACHERS ON CALL monetary interest in the outcome and who share the vision of New York to Cleveland. ‘Preserve and Protect.’ No, Mr Bush, you just stay the course. It’s not your fault that The Gulf Islands School District invites Nominate, or accept a nomination, but most of all get out and 30% of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands applications from qualified teachers wishing to vote for the future of the Islands in the Salish Sea. had no transportation to get out of town. C’mon, they’re black! I serve as Teachers on Call in School District #64. Peter Luckham (nominee), mean, it’s not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you Please refer to School District #64 website at New Orleans Disaster imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don’t www.sd64.bc.ca/postings/postings.html for further make me laugh! Race has nothing to do with this! The following open letter was sent to President Bush on Friday, information on qualifications, the application You hang in there, Mr Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army September 2 by American documentary filmmaker Michael process and deadline. helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Moore. Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit. Dear Mr Bush: Michael Moore, Flint, Michigan i SHORELINE DESIGN Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane specializing in water access over steep and rugged Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and terrain need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all Salt Spring hosts our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. inter-Island forum Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We Salt Spring Island will host the next in a series of inter-Island could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed forums, September 23–25. It will focus on Islands Trust up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they governance. Peter weren’t there to begin with? At the forum, representatives from 13 Islands in the Trust Christenson fully insured Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while area will discuss ways to strengthen, modify and/or reinvent the 250-629-8386 excellent the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a references organization and powers of the Islands Trust. The central www.shorelinedesign.ca [email protected] Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, question will be, ‘What can we do as citizens and islanders to as of today, there are still homes without power. That night the strengthen and invigorate the Islands Trust’s ability to fulfill its Butler Gravel & weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That preserve and protect mandate?’ was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? 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ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005, Page 5 Vancouver Island & The Gulf Islands Only $26.75! • With photo just $32.10 Before You Shop ~ Mike Logan ‘What’s On?’ While driving or walking to the local farmer, market, co-op or supermarket, here are a few things to consider about food Sat & Sun, SeptSalt 10 Spring & 11Island’s First Gay Fri4th Annual to Sun, ‘After Sept Fair Affaire 16 ’–10to local18 bands, beer and wine choices. Pride Celebration–a weekend of garden (benefits the Core Inn Youth Project), food services • events • SAT: information booth at Garden Faire Nursery, 305 Rainbow Road, minutes away from Energy Use & Costs the market, art research display at Salt Spring’s popular 109th Fall Fair & a ten-minute, old-forest Food packaging, shipping, processing, storing and marketing Artspring; Film Festival, 1pm, trail walk from Ganges & Saturday Market; camping packages costs make up four-fifths of the 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 Artspring; panel discussion on the available • FRI & SAT: 6pm–12pm, SUN 5pm–11pm • Admission: future of gays & lesbians in our $5, 12-&-Under free • Info: Shirley 250-537-4346, or quadrillion if you prefer) BTUs of energy the US agricultural community and the world, 7pm, [email protected] • ON SALT SPRING ISLAND sector uses every year. Oil is at astronomical prices. We are Artspring; party & dance, cash bar, 10pm, Glass Onion; SUN: quickly reaching the end of widely available, cheap foods. Ruckle Park Picnic, 12–5pm • Info: 250-537-2227 or Food transport accounts for 14% of that energy usage and www.saltspring.com/glossi • ON SALT SPRING ISLAND FriInter-Island to Sun, Forum September on Islands Trust 23 Governance to 25—at food is travelling farther than ever—an average of 2,000 km—to the first, community-organized forum on the Islands Trust, reach consumers’ plates. Trucking is the primary shipping representatives from 13 Islands will work with the question: method, although it uses ten times more energy than trains or Sunday,‘Clicks for the September Clinic’ Walk-A-Thon 11 —join the annual What can we do as citizens and Islanders to strengthen and fundraiser for the health clinic (hosted by the Pender Islands invigorate the Islands Trust’s ability to fulfill its ‘preserve and boats, while refrigerated jet usage is on the rise (despite being 60 Lions), pledge forms available at the Insurance Office, from Mark protect’ mandate? • FRI: panel of thought-provoking Islanders, times more energy intensive than sea transport). The Ministry of Slater 629-3172, or by e-mail from John Coulson, Agriculture, Food and Fisheries reported in 2004 that BC [email protected] • Start: 1pm at the former 7–9pm; SAT: 9am–9pm; SUN: 9am–12:30pm • Registration: Lions Info Centre, Otter Bay Road (thanks to Ilse Morris), (150 spaces available), $60 (Fri: free/open to public) • Gulf imports 70% of its food supply, despite ever increasing record refreshments provided at the halfway point by Southridge Farms Islands Secondary School • Info: 250-537-4859 • ON SALT food exports. ‘When a head of lettuce travels 2,500 miles and Country Store (thanks to John Miles) • ON PENDER ISLAND SPRING ISLAND undercuts a local farmer, something is seriously wrong,’ said Salt Spring poet and farmer Brian Brett. Getting Stoned In 2005 ~ Christa Grace-Warrick Local vs. Imported Imported foods make up 40% of Salt Spring’s energy footprint, don’t know what the Chinese call this year but for me it has tiling the back porch first… according to the Salt Spring Island Community Energy Strategy definitely been the year of stone. It all started with wanting a An intervening, glorious roadtrip to Calgary yielded views of (www.saltspringonetonnechallenge.org). Given the state of level parking place on my sloping, shale hillside. This was not masses of stone which we could now view with a stonemason’s climate change, and the rising cost of oil, local citizens have Ia whim, I’ve wanted it for twenty years. I’m tired of struggling out begun searching for more local alternatives. The Gulf Islands eye—we wished to bring some home. Viewing the Burgess Shale of my car on the uphill side or falling out of it on the other. from a roadside stop in Field, BC added a prehistorical dimension. and south coastal regions are lucky enough to have an Last fall, it was a year since the bathroom reno and I was in The experience definitely deepened our new stone age. Mounting abundance of farmers’ markets, but where to get local foods the recovery. So having come up with something of a plan, I made the my driveway on our return, the almost forgotten shale heaps came other six days of the week? call to get the excavator in and the long wait began. You know how into view. ‘Good grief, the Burgess Shale!’ I quipped. Salt Springer Erin Hunter is part of that solution. She’s it is on the Islands, everybody is busy doing somebody else’s job. We completed the porch and patio—my brother was positively conducting a survey of all local food producers and suppliers, as Spring came, I had given up and thought I would concentrate heroic with a pick and shovel—literally on the eve of our departure well as retailers and consumers to determine how best to market on the roof instead when the word came, ‘I can come next for Europe. Shortly thereafter we were in Italy, which we found to and distribute local foods on Salt Spring. ‘We have to make the Wednesday.’ Never say ‘no’ to a contractor however unprepared smartest choices we can,’ said Hunter, ‘there’s things we can you are, you don’t know when he will swing by your corner of the be all about stonework. Had we months before picked this destination by serendipity or were we now seeing everything easily grow on the Island, like greens and apples.’ She says the galaxy again. study, which is funded by the Islands Agribusiness Initiative, the In six hours on that Wednesday I had a series of terraces that through the lens of stonemasonry? Islands Trust, the CRD, and local growers, is trying to improve presaged ten years of garden work. I was in shock but knew this to Roman, Florentine, Pisan and Luccan stonework had us agape. the situation for producers and consumers. She envisions a be an inevitable part of the process. Luckily, my hapless brother The running joke was me saying, ‘I want one of those!’ But more efficient, higher quality food system. arrived from Australia the next week for a two-month stay. absolutely best of all were the medieval Umbrian hilltowns. Here Marianne Hargrove, current chair of Salt Springers for Safe Obviously retaining walls were going to be needed. I recalled were entirely fabricated livingscapes. Nothing grew that was not in Food, supports such initiatives. ‘We have to support small mixed Thetis Island stonemason Bill Child and in a matter of hours had a container. In Perugia and Assisi everything was stone. But unlike agricultural enterprises or we won’t have them anymore,’ enrolled us in a one-day stonewall building workshop. modern towns and cities, they are congenial, people-sized and Hargrove said, ‘unless we start supporting them with our Buying myself a pair of steel-toed workboots on the way, we enchanting. were off. To my amazement I learned how to break big stones and wallet—buying locally, eating locally—we aren’t going to have Italians use stone like needlewomen use fabric; it is shaped, that choice.’ how to cut a misshapen lump into a building stone with corners tucked, draped—made to conform to a multitude of purposes. Like and edges, next how to mix mortar to perfection and then found to Price of Organic Foods all good art, the hand of the workman is clearly visible. my astonishment that I was part of a team building a wall! Research has shown that organic foods are often healthier and I returned from Italy with much broadened horizons, my We returned home ready to go at it but came to the realization that the watershed on my lot was our most urgent problem. Due terraces would become Italianate. I lovingly browse my several BEFORE YOU SHOP, please turn to page 11 to a peculiar combination of slopes, run-off from the dwelt-upon hundred photos of Italian stonework. I search for large oblong part of my property heads straight through the backdoor. Flash planters, suitable plants, especially those narrow Umbrian GET YOUR OWN MORTGAGE floods have been held at bay by an untidy ditch. evergreens. I am hooked or, perhaps, stoned. However I am ahead SOLUTION TODAY! Now we were into patio building—isn’t that the way with Island of myself, the walls, the steps call. Bill Child is coming for a return On: Low Rates? Self-declared Income? projects; there is always a job you have to do before the job you engagement before he moves to the Kootenays, care to join us in Investment Properties? Credit Challenges? i wanted to do. Sloping and paving a new patio, of course, entailed the stone age? (See ad on page 12.) Debts Consolidation? Home Renovations? US Purchasers (High Ratio)? Etc.? (OAC) LOGGING DISPLAY from page 2 Rebuttal: When an old-growth forest is logged in BC, it is ‘I know I’m not the only one upset by this display funded with Contact Leo Lee, AMP converted into a biologically impoverished tree plantation that taxpayers’ money at our ferry terminal. Everyone who sees this 250-514-9280; [email protected] lacks the old-growth characteristics and species of the original anti-environmental propaganda should let their BC Liberal Web: www.LeoLee.ca forest. The question is not whether trees grow back—generally, MLAs know in no uncertain terms what they think about it,’ they do—but rather whether or not the same type of forest stated Wu. ‘We need to protect more ancient forests in BC, not EXPECT A ROARING SUCCESS ecosystem grows back after logging. Under BC’s system of rationalize their liquidation and conversion into tree forestry, it does not. It’s not a ‘tree’ issue, but rather an plantations.’ ‘ecosystem’ or ‘habitat’ issue. Current WCWC Campaigns In addition, the BC Liberal government has doubled the rate The WC Wilderness Committee is currently campaigning on the of the sell-off of BC’s public forest lands to private real estate following issues: developers for golf courses, suburban sprawl, etc—from about • Expanding our protected areas system throughout BC, for $40 million/year during the NDP’s reign to $74 million/year example, on Vancouver Island to include ancient forests in the now. They are the leaders in converting our forest lands into Upper Walbran Valley, pristine valleys and islands in Clayoquot ‘other uses.’ Sound, East Creek Rainforest, and Nahmint Valley. Sign: ‘One in every five jobs in BC is linked to the forestry • Protecting endangered species such as the spotted owl, industry. Forestry revenues build schools, hospitals, and mountain caribou, and marbled murrelet which all need old- highways in every corner of BC.’ growth forests to survive. Rebuttal: The BC Liberal government is an expert at • Reducing the unsustainable rate of logging, where over 80 eliminating the jobs of forestry workers—by expanding raw log million cubic metres of wood are logged each year in BC, while exports, eliminating the local milling requirements the long-term sustainable rate of (appurtenancy) that once existed for companies that cut on public cutting is less than half that. lands, and by revising legislation to undermine forestry unions. • Stopping the sell-off or Live Your Dream Yes, forestry revenues do fund schools, hospitals, and privatization of public (Crown) highways—as do tourism revenues, fishing revenues, and other lands throughout BC. industries that are often threatened by unsustainable forestry • Banning the export of raw activities in BC. logs. i Seven Stars Tai Chi Club Salt Spring “Grasp Bird's Tail” Tai Chi Beginners Course Tuesdays 12:30pm-2:00pm ~ Starts Oct 11/05 Using a portion of a Yang style form we will look at the fundamental principles that underlie all styles of Tai Chi Ch'uan. 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Page 6, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005 BC Sustainable Energy ~ Guy Dauncey Butterflies: Painted Lady The Wind Blows For Free hey are spinning on the windswept hills of southern Alberta, Flourishing ~ Nancy Van Patten and on a hill outside Whitehorse, in the Yukon. TThey are spinning in downtown Toronto, and along the ulf Islanders shores of the St Lawrence, in Quebec. But there are no wind who take turbines spinning in —yet. note of the The production of electricity from the wind is making rapid butterfliesG visiting progress around the world. By the end of 2003, wind turbines their gardens or had 39,000 megawatts of global capacity. By the end of 2004, it darting between had risen to 47,000 megawatts. In Quebec, the government has wildflowers along the just given approval for the construction of a further 2,000 roadside are likely to megawatts. have seen an In Calgary, the public light rail system is powered by twelve extraordinary number of Painted Ladies this summer. This year wind turbines located in the southern prairies, near Pincher there has been an explosion of the species Vanessa cardui, Creek. The program is called ‘Ride the Wind,’ and moves the which breeds year round in the Sonoran deserts of the Calgary C-Trains while producing no greenhouse gas emissions southwestern US and northern Mexico. at all. Wind generated electricity is also powering many Calgary Every spring these beautiful migrants begin to recolonize the households which purchase green electricity credits to show that rest of the continent and every fall they die back to their desert their power has come from Alberta’s turbines. strongholds. This winter produced record rainfall in North Overall, in Canada, wind turbines have 570 megawatts of American deserts, which in turn caused record plant growth. capacity The Canadian Wind Energy Association believes that Some naturalists were calling the phenomenon a once-in-two- Canada could have 10,000 megawatts of wind power capacity by hundred-year blooming event. Painted Lady larvae had an 2010. unusual abundance of plants to feed on, producing a population But don’t wind turbines kill birds? Aren’t they ugly, and explosion during the winter months. As butterflies started noisy? And what happens when the wind is not blowing? These leaving the deserts in April to colonize their summer range, are all important questions. ranging from 6 to 12¢ per kilowatt hour. The owners of a 58.5 reports from observers in California described the migration as The first generation of turbines with latticed frames were megawatt project that was recently scrapped at Holberg, on resembling clouds of dead leaves blowing through the valleys. In certainly no friends of birds, especially if they were badly located. northern Vancouver Island, negotiated a low-price contract with some areas motorists were having to pull over to clean their But the new turbines have smooth tubular stems, with nowhere BC Hydro before they knew how much wind there was, and had windshields. for a bird to rest, and on average, studies show that they kill no to back out when the numbers didn’t work. Being at so great a distance from the desert breeding more than one or two birds per turbine per year. (Many more Power from natural gas, for comparison, costs 9¢ a kilowatt grounds, we on the Gulf Islands catch only a hint of this birds would be saved by controlling pet cats.) hour, which is guaranteed to increase since North America has population explosion. Yet, as plentiful early summer arrivals laid To some people wind turbines are ugly, but many people like only enough gas left for ten more years, after which it must be eggs that hatched into larvae, then metamorphosed into their sleek designs, and see them as an emblem of the future. If shipped in as liquefied natural gas from countries like Russia, chrysalids from which another generation of adults emerged, you live very close, they will sometimes produce a background Algeria, and Iran. Coal-fired power is still cheap, but coal is the the Painted Lady numbers have remained high even into late noise, but most of Canada’s wind farms are in remote areas dirtiest of all fuels, and ‘clean coal’ technologies which will not summer here. This was a good year to look for the Vanessa where few people live. produce greenhouse gas emissions are still years off. Wind cardui larvae, whose tell-tale webbing is most often found What happens when the wind is not blowing? The answer is energy, by contrast, is a gift from the sun (since it’s the sun’s heat holding leaves together at the top of thistle plants. The webbing simple: they stop turning. This is why it will never be possible for that causes the wind to blow). It is renewable, clean, and goes on also appeared on artemesia and artichoke plants. a community to get all its energy from the wind. Here in BC, forever. In late May, I saw five Painted Ladies sparring with Anise however, we are blessed with a hydro system which can be used In Denmark, where the modern wind energy movement and Western Tiger Swallowtails among the luxurious phlox like a battery. When the wind is blowing, and the turbines are began, farmers, teachers, and other people have formed wind blooms of a neighbour’s garden, and as recently as August 22 putting energy into the grid, the hydro engineers can hold back energy cooperatives, and bought their own turbines. Globally, a watched two fresh, brightly coloured Ladies nectaring on an the water in the dams. When the wind stops, the hydro-electric study from Stanford University has suggested that the world echinacea plant with a veteran Lady whose delicately faded dams can do their part. The combination will eliminate the could harvest five times more power from the wind than we are wings indeed resembled the soft brown beige of a dead leaf. problem and provide consistent power to the grid. currently using for all purposes—if we want to. To learn more about regional butterflies, visit the Salt Spring How much power could wind turbines in BC produce? A The BCSEA believes that wind energy has a big future in BC, Butterflyers website: www.ssbutterflyers.org/butterflyers. The recent study done for BC Hydro suggested that we have potential as long as policies and rules are put in place to encourage it. Let’s site also gives information about a large butterfly mural that is for 5,000 megawatts, enough to power almost a million homes. hope we don’t have to wait much longer! currently being painted in downtown Ganges by Islanders The best locations are in the Peace River country, on the Guy Dauncey is president of the BC Sustainable Energy Amarah Gabriel and Timothy Hume. When completed, this northern end of Vancouver Island, and along BC’s mid-coast off Association (www.bcsea.org), and author of the book ‘Stormy educational project will illustrate more than 20 native Haida Gwaii. Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change.’ He lives in butterflies, their preferred habitats and important larval plant How much will it cost? The cost varies according to the wind, Victoria. i foods. i BC Behind in Cruiseship Strategies YOUR OWN “PRIVATE ISLAND” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives ecent developments in cruise ship tourism suggest that bound cruises stagnates, there is still potential for a growing BC needs a coordinated strategy for developing the industry in BC. This is a beautiful province with a great deal of industry. Such an approach would ensure ports aren’t value as a destination in its own right, and as a stop enroute to playedR off against each other and help communities maximize Alaska. This value needs to be at the core of how cruise tourism the economic benefits of cruise tourism. is developed.’ ‘Playing Off the Ports: BC and the Cruise Tourism Industry,’ The recommendations outlined in the paper include: by Memorial University professor and industry expert Ross • The province should, in partnership with port communities, Klein, offers a series of recommendations for strengthening the develop a coordinated approach to cruise tourism that would economic impact of cruise tourism in the province and creating longer-term stability for port communities. reduce the risk of competition among ports. This should include With the development of faster ships, Alaska-bound cruises a standardized per-passenger levy—similar to what is being are increasingly departing from Seattle instead of Vancouver, considered in Alaska—that would benefit all cruise destinations creating greater opportunities for other BC ports to receive en- in BC. SEVERAL TO CHOOSE FROM $449,000.00 TO $3.5 MIL. route stops. But without a coordinated plan, communities risk • The province should explore the creation of a ‘made in BC’ losing out to competition. cruise product that would promote BC-focused itineraries. This NEIL WARK (REMAX) 604-946-8000 ‘Ports around BC, such as Nanaimo, Campbell River and could include partnering with private interests to deliver BC- Prince Rupert, are spending millions of dollars to build facilities, only cruises; inducing an existing cruise line to offer a BC maplehomes_IT_1WWW.BCPRIVATEISLANDS 7/26/05 2:06 PM Page.COM 1 while also offering low port use fees,’ says Klein. ‘Investing public product; and/or building capacity of operators in BC. funds to attract cruise tourism has many potential benefits, but • Rather than sell themselves as a bargain, ports should focus there are also risks if ports are being played off against each on their value as a destination and consider exploiting the small other by a notoriously footloose industry.’ cruise ship niche that caters to wealthier clients seeking to get An easy way to build Klein points to examples such as the decision by Celebrity away from big crowds and generic port experiences. Cruises to change its port of call for the ship Mercury from your family cottage. Nanaimo in 2005 to Campbell River in 2006, and in 2004 to • The province needs to lobby the federal government to shorten its stops in Prince Rupert to one-hour ‘technical calls,’ implement environmental standards for the industry so that BC where passengers do not disembark the ship. doesn’t continue to risk losing its value as a ‘naturally beautiful’ ‘The provincial government and ports can ensure that cruise destination. Other West Coast jurisdictions, including Alaska tourism evolves into a stable source of economic development,’ and California are well ahead of BC in setting and enforcing says Klein. ‘Even if, as some analysts predict, growth in Alaska- environmental standards. i

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ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005, Page 7 Saturna Notes ~ Priscilla Ewbank ummertime is the most elastic season, in late June it seems Quilt Show to stretch out forever and by the end of July it seems to On Friday, August 19, the new Recreation Centre housed a large have jumped on an accelerating racing sailboat! display of quilts made by Saturna quilters. Many people went to SDid you get done all the summer things you wanted to do? the Recreation Centre to see and enjoy these wonderful artistic Me neither! I still have long lists of sunny weather ‘must be done expressions. chores’ and ‘must be done fun activities.’ Lynn Piper, an ardent quilter, organized the event. Master Grandchildren have their back-to-school stuff organized and quilter Lorraine Doyle, from Victoria, came over to show college-bound daughters have found housing, one will be leaving machine quilting techniques and to answer questions. soon with summer working wages tucked in her wallet. The The quilts ranged from teacosies to antique quilting that had ‘shoulder season’ when our university-age kids, who do so many been found in an Islander’s family attic and put together by tourist service jobs, are gone but travellers are still coming leave Lynn. The works were made by both experienced quilters and businesses shorthanded. first-time craftswomen. Welcome to New Teacher and Family A quilt of scenes of all of the homes Mary Barnett and her At 6:30am on August 20, Jon and I met the new teacher, Steve husband have lived in was put together by Sue Lindsay and quilted Dunsmuir and his family—wife Laura, son Ben (bound for GI by Lynn Piper. This wonderful quilt was voted the ‘favourite.’ On August 30, stakes were put in the ground to mark the site of Secondary School) and daughters Emily and Natalie (who will Regatta Coming Soon the proposed Pender Island swimming pool at the Haven of join Saturna Elementary School). They had just driven off the On Sunday, September 18, the seventh annual Saturna Island Hope Bible Camp on Hooson Road.The pool, 22 feet by 82 feet, early morning boat to claim the keys to their new house from the Regatta will take place. Saturna Island yachts and visiting yachts will be used for swimming instruction of children and community ‘Free Mail.’ (Mary Jo and Edmund Coulter had just moved out will take to the high seas for a fine day of racing and social groups. of the Dunsmuir’s new home the day before with the help of gathering. This wonderfully bizarre race is supported by all kinds many Island friends!) of sailors: novice, lackadaisical, anti-authoritarian, The Pender Pool Project committee plans to raise $100,000 for It is exciting to have our teacher home-based on our Island authoritarian, competent, incompetent and driven. the pool’s construction. (From left: Alan MacBean, Oswald again, with their kids around all the time and a wife who will The main race starts at 11am off of Crocker Point. Racing Sawatzky, Peter Emmings, and Helen Lemon-Moore). make her own way among us all! We have had wonderful Salt course and instructions will be provided at the rendezvous or by Spring-based teachers for last couple of years, but it is good to be email. Contact Richard Blagbourne 250-539-3217. back to having the teacher and family as part of our community. The Post-Race potluck appetizers and cocktails, aka the Nominate your ecostar The Dunsmuir family has roots in the Gulf Islands and are active Excuses and Unbelievable Claims Meeting, will be held Nominations are now being accepted for the CRD’s 2005 outdoors people. They are pleased to be here and we are very immediately after the last boat finishes to determine the winner Ecostar Awards. Until September 30, you can nominate a pleased to have them! and award trophies. business, organization or individual in the Capital Region that Rec Centre Grand Opening Funding for Invasive Species Removal has made a contribution to protecting, restoring and preserving the environment. The Saturna Recreation Centre Society held a grand opening of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is offering funding to Award categories are: climate change, conservation and the new facility on August 20. About 250 guests flowed along develop and implement an invasive species removal project in restoration, environmental education, sustainability, following a parade of Pender Highlanders pipers into the the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. Pender and Mayne transportation, research and technology, pollution prevention, parking lot for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Gary Lunn, local MP, Island are organizing ‘broom pulls’ and will perhaps get a waste reduction, drinking water stewardship, urban watershed Murray Coell, local MLA, and Brian Haley, Recreation Centre pamphlet written to describe invasive species and their habits. protection, youth (individual and group) and lifetime Society president, welcomed everyone into the gymnasium as They hope to get these community projects running by mid achievement. the ribbon fell, ceremonially opening the doors. October. If you are interested, call Karen Blinkhorn 604-685- The Ecostar Awards have been presented annually since Master of Ceremonies Brian Haley introduced speeches from 7445 or email [email protected]. the stage. Pam Janszen (president of the Lions Club), Islands 2000. Nominators can find information online at Trustee Brian Hollingshead, Jacques Campbell (president of the Scrapbusters Hit Saturna www.crd.bc.ca/ecostar or pick up a nomination form at the CRD Saturna Community Club), Saturna Island has been visibly offices on 524 Yates Street in Victoria. i Murray Coell, and Gary Lunn affected by world economics— all spoke commending the the cost of iron and other metals efforts of the organizers and the has risen, which has led to a    volunteers in creating our rec parade of old trucks and cars centre. coming out of the forests and  ,/" Special thanks were given to meadows and other resting +1 -/" -¶ John and Carol Money, Prince places all over Saturna Island. Von Hohenzollern and the (There are even bits of a car that Saturna Lions for their part in keep emerging in our driveway.) œÀʈ˜vœÀ“>̈œ˜Ê>LœÕÌÊ«iÀ“>˜i˜ÌÊÀiÈ`i˜Vi] the land acquisition, and to According to Pat Weston VˆÌˆâi˜Ã ˆ«]ÊܜÀŽÊ«iÀ“ˆÌÃʜÀ Melanie Gaines (long-time and Forrest Brosius of Weston LÕȘiÃÃʈ““ˆ}À>̈œ˜°°° Saturna teacher/principal) Scrap Metal and Scrapbusters it whose vision of an indoor is currently economically 6 Ê1]Ê ,/" Ê79 , facility for the schoolchildren Sam Peramaki’s muse leaves Saturna. feasible to come to the Gulf £‡nää‡n£n‡£ÎÇÎ kicked-off the project. Islands and remove old cars and ÜÜܰۈV̜Àˆ>>Ü°Vœ“ Thanks went to the Saturna Lions who got the project off the scrap metals at no cost to the owners. ground and who have been wholehearted supporters and to Don Pat and Forrest removed 400 cars from Pender and 400 tons Piper, construction manager along with John Gaines, who saw of scrap metal. While on a ferry, they met John Money who {Ì ÊœœÀ]ÊÇÇÇÊœÀÌÊ-Ì°] 6ˆV̜Àˆ>]Ê ° °]ÊÊ6n7Ê£™ the enterprise through to completion. All of the people suggested they might find a motherlode on Saturna too. Breezy `>Ս>JۈV̜Àˆ>>Ü°Vœ“ concerned with building concurred that Don Piper was pivotal in Bay contributed 30 cars, we had a few international trucks, the completing the project. mill had many, some crushed and some not. Accepting his accolades, Don Piper concluded by thanking Islanders are beginning to hear about the business and make the individuals, local groups, corporations and all levels of arrangements to have vehicles collected. Scrapbusters has a long government for time, in-kind and financial donations. He low-bed, the cars and trucks are hauled to the mill, crushed and AFTER FAIR AFFAIRE th ANNUAL identified the building as ‘a true asset for Saturna Island.’ He trucked down to John Money’s wharf, loaded onto a barge and 4 Music Festival, Beer & Wine Garden & More! thanked volunteers for their ‘tireless efforts.’ He ended by saying taken to Victoria. Much of the metal goes into making rebar and See ‘What’s On’ on page 5 for details. ‘I sincerely hope that this building gives you pride and that some of it goes to China, India and other Far East destinations. Stop by before or after you walk the Mouat Park Trails. Islanders and visitors of today and for many years in the future We pretty much all came to Saturna in some sort of vehicle. take full advantage of the facility.’ We were used to waving at well-known vehicles—The Visitors were then treated to tea and coffee provided by the Bumblebee, the Duvco, La Rosa Plastica, the Orange Blossom Saturna Women’s Club. They toured the grounds, saw the new Special, and many more which were, until lately, rusting down in gallery, nursery blackberry or salal graves. As the old trucks and cars are hauled & medical centre, the Parks Canada facility, lounge area and kitchen. CAMPGROUND. The grounds, parking lot, and information kiosk are landscaped past the Store, they bring back memories of a more carefree and 305 Rainbow Rd • 250-537-4346 and form a nice backdrop to the new facility. I thought it less regulated life, like Reg Huttonpotts climbing out of the [email protected] appropriate that Melanie Gaines, who talked about wanting a window of a pickup to pay the ferry attendant because the doors VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX covered play area at parent-teacher meetings in the 1980s, was of his truck didn’t work. planting flowers and landscaping with the help of hard-working By coincidence, while local artist Sam Peramaki was hanging PENDER ISLAND ~ FOR SALE parent Beth Jones on the afternoon before the opening. her exhibition at the café, the Scrapbusters truck drove by, The opening celebrations continued into the night with a loaded with the very truck whose painting Sam was hanging! She had created the painting from a photograph she had taken WallacePoint dance. Mr Music, Al Stonehouse, kept the dancers on their feet WallacePoint with a great selection of tunes. Mr Music is revered on Saturna back in the 1980s (see photo above). for his ability to choose tunes that keep young and old satisfied Talking Values and dancing. During the summer, part-time Islander Dr Dick Walenta New Medical Clinic Location presented a series of seven lectures that were very well attended The new medical clinic at the Recreation Centre is up and in the community. The subject was values, broken down into running thanks to Donna Curwen and Bev Bruce. These two lecture topics: how do we get our values, what constitutes inter moved everything over from the former location above the and intra-cultural value conflicts, the shift of values that came firehall—supplies, equipment, files, medicines, kids books, with industrialism and technology and how we make value choices. The recurring theme in the series is that no one value telephones—the whole shebang. They then set up the new clinic. ikely the most dramatic Thanks to Terry Danyliw and Grant Dickey who helped move system is right for everybody. This popular series was supported L the heavy equipment. by the Parks and Recreation Committee and Saturna Café. i waterfront property available in the Southern Gulf ’ Islands today. Wallace Point is What s old is new again at Hope Bay! a 7.06 acre ecologically perfect paradise that provides RICHARD J WEY heart-stopping views from a 2,800 square foot, 2 bedroom, & ASSOCIATES 3 bath home and over 1/2 mile of ocean frontage. Please call for details or private viewing. Can. $2,750,000. LAND SURVEYING INC. The Lord James Jim Russell #4 - 2227 James White Boulevard Sidney, BC V8L 1Z5 PH: 250-656-5155 FX: 250-656-5175 1 (800) 263-4753 www.jimrussellrealestate.com Breathtaking waterfront retail & professional lease space available. LEGAL, ENGINEERING AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS, SUBDIVISION PLANNING For leasing info: 250-629-6432 (Pender Island)

Page 8, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005 Black Gold: Too Valuable to Burn Peter Carter owadays much is being written about consumer prices: hidden costs such as direct the price of oil and as usual with any rise subsidies to the oil industry from governments; in price at the pump the population of publicly funded infrastructure costs; and the NNorth America cries bloody murder. Even my health and environmental costs associated with NOTICE OF NOMINATION ‘green’ friends send me petitions to sign, burning fossil fuels. These direct and indirect 2005 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION demanding that the government stop the subsidies seriously distort energy markets and PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the Juan de Fuca, Salt Spring unholy price rise. (Somehow no one complains burden the economy with rampant inefficiency. that the price of filtered tap water in a plastic Public health costs due to air pollution in the Island and Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Areas in the Capital Regional District bottle is as high as the price of gas.) US account for over three-quarters of total that nominations for the office of ELECTORAL AREA DIRECTOR will be received between: I’m a real odd ball. I’m the only one I know pollution-related health costs and could be as who feels good when the price of gas goes up. I high as $182 billion annually. Many studies 9:00 am, Tuesday, October 4, 2005 and see it as good news for our health and the future have shown increased childhood cancer linked 4:00 pm, Friday, October 14, 2005. of our families. to automobile exhausts—hardly surprising as it During that period the nomination documents shall only be received during regular Five years ago economists predicted it would contains several known carcinogens. Breast office hours, Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am-4:30 pm, by a person designated by the Chief take oil at $50–$60/barrel for over a year to cancer increase has also been associated. Election Officer at the Capital Regional District, Administration Dept., 3rd Floor, spark market-based interest in renewables. If The ‘The Real Price of Gas’ report found that 524 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. true, current prices will not only cause us to use total unaccounted cost in the US was as much as Should anyone wish to file nomination documents in other than office hours, less gasoline but will drive national economies US$1.7 trillion annually. A study by The arrangements may be made by phoning the Chief Election Officer at (250)472-0059. to invest seriously in renewable energy sources. National Defense Council Foundation, a right- Representation for the Electoral Areas will be as listed below and shall be for a Economists are advising us not to worry— of-center think tank, came to the same 3-year term commencing December 2005 and terminating December 2008: higher prices will boost supply and then the conclusion. price will drop. That makes me worry—I don’t In Canada, the array of subsidies to the oil • Juan de Fuca Electoral Area One Director want the price of oil to drop. industry and users of fossil fuel in Canada is • Salt Spring Island Electoral Area One Director As it is, adjusted for inflation the current roughly comparable to that in the States, so • Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area One Director price of oil is about the same as in 1977 and only Rees translates this into a price of roughly (Galiano, Mayne, North Pender, Saturna, South Pender and Piers Islands) twice as much as in 1948. Adjusted for inflation CAN$2–$5.40 per litre of gas. Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly qualified electors of the Americans are paying little over half what they Securing Supply Electoral Area in which the candidate is running for office. The nomination paid for gas in 1980. That’s cheap. That helps us The cost of assuring a supply of oil is documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local Government Act and shall resist the move to a clean, sustainable-energy underestimated and escalating rapidly. From state the name and residence of the person nominated in such a manner as to economy. Columbia and Ecuador to Iraq, the US military sufficiently identify such candidate. The nomination documents shall be subscribed Social-cost Accounting: spends untold billions of dollars to secure oil. to by the candidate. At the time of filing the nomination documents, the candidate Can We Afford Gasoline? The cost to the US of the Iraq invasion and shall also file with the Chief Election Officer or a person designated by the Chief In any case the price of oil according to ‘the occupation is nearly $205 billion. (That would Election Officer a written disclosure as required under the Financial Disclosure Act. economy’ is not the price of oil. Bill Rees is an have bought a lot solar roofs and wind turbines.) Copies of all forms are available at: expert oddball. He used to be dean of economics It is impossible to put a price on the damage • Capital Regional District, Administration Dept., 524 Yates St., Victoria, at UBC. Now he heads the UBC Sustainability to national economies worldwide from state and B.C. Tel. (250)360-3128, or toll free 1-800-663-4425, local 3128 for Port Institute. For at least five years he has been non-state sponsored terrorism aimed at Renfrew and Gulf Island residents; warning that we pay too little for gas; not too controlling oil supplies. • or by calling the Chief Election Officer at (250)472-0059. much. It would be a grave error, he says, to Environmental Costs Dated this 6th day of September, 2005 assume that a competitive marketplace The environmental costs of oil and gas are now necessarily tells the truth about the real costs of unquantifiable. In the rush for oil almost a Thomas F. Moore, fossil fuel. Bill Rees estimates that a fuller social- billion gallons of oil are spilled into the world’s Chief Election Officer cost accounting for fossil fuel use would result in oceans and waterways each year—a cost we This notice is being published in this newspaper as a convenience only and not in accordance with the legal requirements pursuant to the Local Government Act. a gas price between $5.60 and $15.14 per gallon. don’t account for. Acid rain has not gone away A 1998 report by the Washington-based and causes damage in the billions of dollars to International agricultural crops in America each year. Centre for This year, unreported by the media, NASA property regardless of the number of owners.) Technology studies found the smoking gun on climate You may register on voting day if you meet the Assessment, change—it is largely due to the burning of fossil elector qualifications set out above. ‘The Real fuels. The costs of extreme weather events are Price of Gas,’ skyrocketing. Accelerated global warming is NOTICE OF ADVANCE VOTER REGISTRATION AND For information about registering as a Resident or quantified now a real possibility—not science fiction. These AVAILABILITY OF LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS Non-Resident Property Elector call (250)360-3129. Port Renfrew and Gulf Island residents may call toll numerous rapidly escalating costs are ignored. Like most free, 1-800-663-4425 local 3129. external costs environmental costs, we pass them on to our PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that Advance Voter associated grandchildren. Registration closes on Sept. 27, 2005 for Capital LIST OF REGISTERED ELECTORS with the use Putting status before future survival, we live Regional District (CRD) Lists of Registered Electors for: The preliminary Lists of Registered Electors will be of fossil- in big energy-inefficient houses (twice as large • Juan de Fuca Electoral Area available, upon signature, for viewing at the CRD fueled motor as the last generation) and prefer to drive gas- • Salt Spring Island Electoral Area offices listed below. You may also call the offices to vehicles that guzzling trucks and SUVs. • Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area enquire whether your name is on a CRD List of are not re- BLACK GOLD, please turn to page 11 (Galiano, Mayne, North and South Pender, Registered Electors: flected in US Saturna and Piers Islands) • Administration - (250)360-3129, 524 Yates St., CRD Lists of Registered Electors are used for voting Victoria, BC (Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am-4:30 pm) Recorded voting to be for Electoral Area Directors and referenda, School • Building Inspection (Malahat, Willis Point and District Trustees and Islands Trust Trustees in the Southern Gulf Islands) - (250)360-3230, 625 discussed Trust Council Capital Regional District. Fisgard St., Victoria, BC (Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am- 4:30 pm) ELECTOR QUALIFICATIONS • Juan de Fuca Planning & Building Inspection - meeting Resident Elector (250)642-1620, 2205 Otter Point Rd., Sooke, A proposal to record all Trust Council voting will be debated at If you are 18 years or older on voting day (Nov. 19, BC (Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am-4:30 pm) the Islands Trust Council meeting on Keats and Gambier 2005), are a Canadian Citizen, have resided in British • Building Inspection - (250)629-3424, 4605 Islands, September 14–16. The propoal would mean that the vote of each Trustee on Columbia for six months and in your community for 30 Bedwell Harbour Rd. (Driftwood Centre), North each resolution of Council could be determined from the days (the residency qualifications are set out in the Pender Island (Mon.-Wed.-Fri., 8:30 am-Noon Local Government Act), you are entitled to vote as a and 1:00-4:30 pm) minutes, and would be public information. Islanders would then be able to check the voting record of their individual trustees on Resident Elector. • Building Inspection - (250)537-2711, #206-118 specific issues. Fulford Ganges Rd., , (Mon.- Non-Resident Property Elector Salt Spring Island At present, resolutions are recorded as being carried or Fri., 8:30-10:00 am, 10:30 am-Noon, 1:00-4:30pm) If you are 18 years or older on voting day (Nov. 19, defeated. Should a Trustee request that his/her vote be 2005), are a Canadian Citizen, have resided in British Following the close of Advance Voter Registration and recorded, this is done; Council can also resolve to have all votes Columbia for six months, have owned and held beginning Tues., Oct. 4, 2005, until the close of general recorded on a particular resolution, but this is rare. registered title to property within the boundaries of the voting, a copy of the final Lists of Registered Electors The proposal takes the form of a Request for Decision, which local community for 30 days, do not qualify as a will be available, upon signature, for public inspection at was introduced by Salt Spring Island Trustee Kimberly Linegar Resident Elector, you may vote as a Non-Resident the CRD offices listed above. following discussions among residents of several Islands who Property Elector provided that you: An elector may request that personal information felt it would reinforce the accountability of trustees to their a) have registered on or before Sept. 27, 2005, OR respecting the elector be omitted from or obscured on constituents. b) have applied for and received a certificate, prior to the List in accordance with S.63 (protection of privacy) Usually, Trust Council resolutions are carried by a strong voting day, entitling you to register as a Non-Resident of the Local Government Act. majority. Trustee Linegar’s proposal is that the minutes should Property Elector (certificate must be presented at the record the names of those opposed to a resolution, and those time of voting), OR OBJECTION TO REGISTRATION OF AN ELECTOR absent or abstaining. This should not add significantly to the c) apply for a certificate, at the time of voting, entitling An objection to the registration of a person whose burden of minute-taking. you to register as a Non-Resident Property Elector. name appears on the List of Registered Electors may The Trust Policy Statement says: ‘Trust Council believes that The following information is required at the time of be made to the CRD Corporate Secretary, PO Box open, consultative public participation is vital to effective application: 1000, Victoria, BC, V8W 2S6, in accordance with the decision-making for the Trust Area.’ • a recent land title registration of the real property Local Government Act, until 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 14, The proposal has the purpose of increasing the transparency of (may be obtained at the Land Title Office) or prop- 2005. An objection must be made in writing, may only Trust deliberations. Some Islanders see it as a beginning of a trend erty tax notice, showing the names of all the regis- be made by a person entitled to be registered as an to increasing disclosure, reporting, and accountability for Trustees tered owners, elector of the CRD, and can only be made on the basis and others involved in local and Trust-wide decision-making. i • 2 pieces of identification (one must have a sig- that the person whose name appears has died or is not nature), and qualified to be registered as an elector of the CRD. NAFTA from page 1 • in the case of more than one owner of the property, and the increasing threat to our sovereignty over water, oil, a completed consent form signed by the majority of Dated this 6th day of September, 2005 education and health care services should serve as a warning to the owners designating you as the person entitled Canadians,’ says Lewis. to vote for the property. Carmen I. Thiel, Lewis was the Green Party candidate for Saanich-Gulf (Only one Non-Resident Property Elector may vote per Corporate Secretary Islands in the 2004 federal election, winning close to 17% of the This notice is being published in this newspaper as a convenience only and vote, the highest Green Party vote in any constituency in not in accordance with the legal requirements pursuant to the Local Government Act. Canada. i

Islanders Abroad—Summer Travel Stories ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005, Page 9 The New Road to Symbolism and Medicine Wigan Pier ~ John Carlton in the Hills of China Driving in England can be a test of nerves as well as money. Trevor Erikson Petrol is double the Canadian cost. The rented car will cost a fortune if scratched, and it takes non-stop concentration to drive was flying down one of China’s windy country roads in a on the same side of the road as did the Romans. Then there is taxi, speeding around sharp corners with steep thousand- the 'Roundabout.' This is something between the gravitational metre-high cliffs on one side and weaving in and around slingshot used to accelerate satellites into outer space, and a Ihundreds of tourists and traffic. We were travelling way faster motorised English maypole dance. than the average speed limit on Pender Island, my home. I was Your first encounter with one of these will be as you get off feeling overwhelmed by the people and pollution, thinking about the six-lane, high-speed motorway. Actually, you have probably all the stories friends back home had told me, warning me of just been herded off by an enormous long-haul truck because such things. China is known as a place of mysticism, but at that you picked the wrong lane ten miles earlier. Into the centrifuge moment I was feeling that this mystery was in the past—the new you hurtle, in a never-ending right hand turn, while frantically China was just an overcrowded mess in desperate need of order. trying to read all the signs flashing by. In Wales, they point to I was travelling to Lu Shan, a popular mountain resort town places such as Rhosllanerchrugog, or Llanarmon-Dyffryn- and park, for a rural experience away from the busy Traditional Ceirlog, names that cannot be read while standing still, let alone Chinese Hospital, in Changsha, Hunan, where I was interning as while accumulating centripetal inertia at a galactic rate. When an acupuncturist and as a Traditional Chinese Medical doctor in you are moving at something close to cyclic escape velocity, and training. I had chosen to journey to Lu Shan because it was a your car is on two wheels, and the eighteen-wheel truck Photo: Trevor Erikson world heritage site and Geo Park set up by UNESCO, one of alongside you is on nine wheels, you see a way off the not very about 27 protected areas in China. This forested mountain ‘Lovers Reuniting’ (two rock towers,centre) merry-go-round, and leap for safety. It no longer matters where region of the Jiang Xi province is rich in bamboo forests, lakes you are going. and wildlife and a place where poets, political heads, and as Child Palace. Diseases are sometimes named after the weather. The function of herbs are often tied to what part of the With your mind, and the car, still spinning, you are religious leaders have come for thousands of years to relax and body they look like, like Ba Ji Tian which looks like a tendon and catapulted immediately into a medieval street, sized around enjoy the spectacular vistas, occasionally revealed between the is actually used to strengthen tendons. horses or carts, but not both at once. To escape the enormous ever-misty mountains. In the hospital, I saw thousands of people come from all over truck now chasing you, and in the vain hope of finding your way As we drove, we passed many inscriptions in the rocky China to receive a traditional diagnosis and treatment with the back to a road wider than the car, you turn. Left or right, it does landscape of famous poems or sayings that have inspired the same enthusiasm they had for their parks. Many patients not matter. Chinese community through the ages. I had come here to relax explained that their trust for this natural medicine was based on its You are now lost in the side streets, and they are all one-way, but was a nervous wreck! I tried to pay attention to my long uninterrupted history (over three thousand years) of practice but since locals know which way, there’s no point wasting public interpreter, who was busy translating the taxi driver’s story. The and that it gave good results, often without side effects. The sister money sharing this information. After all, it has been the same taxi driver was taking us to a scenic spot called The Three hospital to the one I worked in is built over the same spot that an for over a thousand years. Stepped Waterfall and was explaining how some tourist quietly old TCM scholar had his original clinic, over two thousand years Compounding the confusion is English parking. The British mentioned that he saw the image of a sparrow in the waterfall ago! Chinese medicine never really had a dark age and the Chinese park in both directions and on both sides of the road. They park and now a few years later everyone in China wanted to come to people are very proud of this. Outside the hospital every morning in the middle of the road, and up on the sidewalks. Sometimes Lu Shan to see this amazing phenomenon. I saw large groups of people doing Qi Gong and Tai Ji, with they just stop the car and get out. (The only place the British do On the hike to the Three Stepped Waterfall, I saw how movements named after different animals, another link between not park is on the motorway itself. Anything stopped on the different the parks in China were from those in Canada. The the human and natural world that drives the Chinese people. motorway is likely to be as flattened as a dead fox.) whole trail down to the waterfall was lined with granite paving Over time I began to relax and notice how the natural world So there is nothing about direction to be learned from parked stones, which was common throughout all the parks I visited. An was integrated into the peoples’ lives around me. I started to look cars. Your first clue may be when another, or maybe the same, enormous amount of work, spanning in some parks hundreds of at the rocks and hillsides differently, thinking about deeper enormous truck appears at the end of the street, heading kilometres. I guess that the stones provide protection from meanings than just what kind of material they were made of. I straight for you, lights flashing and airhorn blaring, still washing erosion—thousands of tourists visit these parks every year— or even started to relax with the traffic. Instead of seeing the off the enormous speed with which it left the roundabout. In a they protected the people from getting their nice shoes and situation as just chaotic and lacking order, I started seeing more cyclonic din of collapsing pneumatics, the monster shudders to clothes dirty. Sometimes I would spend 2 or 3 hours climbing fluidity. The roads became riverbeds and the cars became like a halt an inch from your bumper, glaring and panting. The stone steps to reach the summit of some cliff that might be called water, flowing around any obstacle they came upon. As soon as driver, whose position is hereditary, the King of the Truck, as it Yellow Dragon Head or something, sweating the whole time I used my imagination, China became a place of symbolic were, will now give a defining performance of road rage, from the high heat and humidity, to arrive at the top to see imagery that was deeper than just the overpopulation and rehearsed over generations, Shakespearean in grandeur, and families of Chinese people, between 2 and 80 years old, dressed pollution that I had been warned about. delivered in an incomprehensible accent. Without hesitation, to the hilt in clothes worthy of a western fine-dining experience, you reverse at high speed out of a street that you were not too Trevor Erikson is a Licensed Acupuncturist who works out of high heels and all! sure about going into forwards at a crawl. the Pender Island Health Centre on Pender. He recently Poetic symbolism also permeated the environment. Besides That is how I found my way, totally unintentionally, into the returned from an internship in the city of Changsha, Hunan the sparrow in the waterfall I saw other symbolic features—two province, China. i WIGAN PIER, please turn to page 11 rocks that looked like lovers reuniting after a long separation (see picture, right), or the mountain top that looked like a student holding up his text book in deep concentration. These documents, the candidate shall also file with the Chief features were marked by rocks with inscriptions. The Chinese Election Officer or a person designated by the Chief certainly seem to value an active imagination and especially one Election Officer a written disclosure, as required under that holds deeper meaning for the world we live in. the Financial Disclosure Act. This imagination was already evident to me as I have been Copies of all forms are available at: studying Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) over the past five • Capital Regional District, Administration years. From TCM theory the human body is an integrated whole, Dept., 3rd Floor, 524 Yates St., Victoria, both with itself and the natural world at large, completely united. ISLANDS TRUST - LOCAL TRUSTEES tel: (250)360-3128 or toll free 1-800-663-4425, Acupuncture points are named after mountains or valleys. NOTICE OF NOMINATION local 3128 for Gulf Island residents; Organs are commonly named after images of what they 2005 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTION • Islands Trust, #200-1627 Fort St., Victoria, represent, the uterus is named Zi Gong, which literally translates tel: (250)405-5164; PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of • Islands Trust, #1-500 Lower Ganges Rd., Salt Group, Mayne Island Group, North ‘Once Upon A Time’ by Daisy Steggles Spring Island, tel. (250)537-9144; Pender Island Group, Salt Spring Island Group, • or by calling the Chief Election Officer at Saturna Island Group and South Pender Island (250)472-0059. September Cruise Group that nominations for the office of LOCAL They’re 15 and 16 years old, gangling and awkward with boney TRUSTEE will be received between: Dated this 6th day of September, 2005 wrists and legs. 9:00 am, Tuesday, October 4, 2005, and They have this little boat with an outboard motor. And 4:00 pm, Friday, October 14, 2005. Thomas F. Moore, they’ve scraped, sanded and painted it, and had the engine all to During that period, nomination documents shall only be Chief Election Officer pieces. No other boat in ocean or lake can compare with it, it’s received during regular office hours, Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am - theirs, owned jointly, and they’d rather have a boat than any car. 4:30 pm, by a person designated by the Chief Election The following constitutes the designated island groups And all summer long, they’ve waited for this date, marked for the purpose of electing local trustees to the Islands Officer at the Capital Regional District, Administration upon the calendar. Trust: They get out the old tarpaulin and a little tent and they’ve got Dept., 3rd Floor, 524 Yates St., Victoria, B.C. Galiano Island Group - Galiano, Ballingall, Charles, filthy old sweaters and a couple of well-worn raincoats from the Should anyone wish to file nomination documents in Gossip, Julia, Lion Islets, Parker, Retreat, Sphinx, basement which smell to high heaven. They also have extra other than office hours, arrangements may be made by Wise, Lot 145 Whaler Bay. socks, boots, one clean T-shirt, and jeans that are faded to a phoning the Chief Election Officer at (250)472-0059. Mayne Island Group - Mayne, Curlew, Georgeson pretty blue. And for some strange adolescent reason of their Representation for the Islands Trust will be as listed North Pender Group - North Pender, Boat Islet, Fane, own, they have a bottle of sticky hair oil. below and shall be for a 3-year term commencing Roe Islet, Lot 31 A & B Colston Cove, Lot 50 Grimmer Their mothers don’t think they’re old enough to stay out that December 2005 and terminating December 2008: Bay, Lot 176 Otter Bay, Lot 32 Bedwell Harbour, long, but nevertheless the boys will anyway. The fathers are big Galiano Island Two Trustees Arbutus, Brethour, Chads, Coal, Comet, D'Arcy, and hearty and very proud, they tell the mothers that if the kids Mayne Island Two Trustees Forrest, Gooch, Goudge, Hood, Imrie, James, Knapp, are too dumb to look after themselves at that age then they’re North Pender Island Two Trustees Portland, Pym, Rubly, Rum, Sidney, Tortoise Islets. not worth bringing up. Salt Spring Island Two Trustees Salt Spring Island Group - Salt Spring, Acland, Bright, So the mothers ease their worries by cooking loaves of bread, Saturna Island Two Trustees Buriel Islet, Channel, Deadman, Goat, Grace, Hall, fruit cake, cookies, a meat loaf and a pan of half-cooked buns, South Pender Island Two Trustees Hawkins, Idol, Isabella, Jackscrew, Mowgli, Norway, known as ‘bellyache.’ There are tins of this and of that—enough Piers, Prevost, Red Islets, Russell, Secretary, Secret, Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two duly to feed an army for two months. It’s just two lanky teenage boys Sisters - First, Second, Third, Wallace, Lot 73 Long qualified electors of the said Island in which the for five days. Harbour, Lot 349 Ganges Harbour, Lot 222 Long candidate is running for office. The nomination The lads get the motor going, they’ve got fishing tackle, water Harbour, Lot 344 Stuart Channel. documents shall be in the form prescribed in the Local cans and an extra tin of gasoline. They will cruise around finding - Saturna, Anniversary, Belle Government Act and shall state the name and Saturna Island Group the islands and the names that go with them. , Cabbage, Java Islets, King Islets, Lizard, residence of the person nominated in such a manner They will hear the crackling of leaves and see the hanging Pine, Samuel, Trevor Islet, Tumbo, Lot 65 East of as to sufficiently identify such candidate. The greens. When the tides are low, they will see narrow strips of Samuel. nomination documents shall be subscribed to by the beaches, where shellfish lie naked in the hot sun. - South Pender, Blunden Islet, candidate. At the time of filing the nomination South Pender Group Some people take to the cities and highways. Like those boys Skull Islet. of years ago, let me cruise in September among the islands, This notice is being published in this newspaper as a convenience only and not in accordance with the legal requirements pursuant to the Local Government Act. where it is quiet and beautiful. i

Page 10, ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005 Book Review by Patrick Brown The Big Picture Combined US and Canadian groups ared Diamond’s book Collapse bears the An important daunting subtitle How Societies Choose to chapter is devoted to the reaffirm principles of parks Fail or Succeed. The formidable clash between business Seventy-three Canadian and US environmental ‘Parks were a public trust to be protected Jexpectations raised by such a scope are fulfilled and environmentalists. groups have issued a declaration on the from economic exploitation,’ says Anne Sherrod, by historical examples of societies that failed, and Diamond reviews, as principles of parks. The joint statement is a chair of the Valhalla Wilderness Society. ‘But in more recent examples illustrating danger examples, the economic repudiation of the privatization and the last few years, anti-environment signals. Finally, Diamond attempts an analysis of characteristics of commercialization of parks now occurring in governments are literally destroying our park the fatal flaws from which we might anticipate resource extraction both countries. It says that the primary purpose systems by dismantling the laws that imposed that even in today’s world of instant and businesses, and their incentives, or lack of of parks is to preserve land in a totally natural barriers against private control, economic overwhelming communication, societies can incentives, to assume environmental condition, for the maintenance of healthy exploitation, and damaging activities. repeat the mistakes of the past. responsibility. His examples are the various ecosystems and the enjoyment of the public. In the US, Scott Silver, executive director of This book is, in a way, a university course in types of mining industries, the oil industry, In British Columbia, the BC government has Wild Wilderness, says ‘special interests favoring history, geography, and anthropology. Diamond logging, and seafood. In all of these, he observes, rewritten the Park Act to allow resort industrial tourism and motorized recreation is a professor of geography at UCLA, and clearly business can maximize short term profits by development. A new policy, called the BC Park have been working with the Bush administration a man for whom the environment is paramount, damaging the environment. He concludes that Lodge Policy, allows the government to use behind the scenes in an effort to commercialize, whether in the short term or long term. The the only incentives for better environmental taxpayer’s dollars to market leases of BC park privatize and motorize recreational examples he draws range around the world and behaviour lie in either public or government land in Japan, the US, Europe and Canada. Most opportunities within America’s National Parks.’ over the last two millenia: Easter Island, Pitcairn pressure, both amounting to a threat that recently, another policy invites private interests Wild Wilderness reports the recent discovery of and Henderson Islands, the Anasazi, the Maya, business will be banned or restricted. to make applications to the government to a hitherto secret proposal written by the the Viking settlements in Greenland, and Japan. Today’s Big Problems rewrite park boundaries to further their business Department of Interior’s Paul Hoffman From them he concludes that there are five vital Diamond’s analysis is not yet finished. He goes interests. The Valhalla Wilderness Society confirming the scope of efforts to discard the factors which determine whether or not these on to provide his list of the major environmental reports that leaked documents reveal that the principles by which parks have been managed societies survived: environmental damage, problems facing the world today. They are an climate change, hostile neighbours, friendly government plans to completely rewrite the PARKS PRINCIPLES, please turn to page 11 interesting, and mostly familiar, list (not ranked Park Act by 2007. trade partners, and last but not least, each in order of how serious they are; to Diamond, society’s unique response to the environmental they are all serious): PORT BROWNING MARINA, CAFE & PUB problems it encounters. 1. The destruction of natural habitats. Diamond then goes on to apply the lessons 2. 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Higher environmental impact of each des: Port Wash, Lyall, Miners historical failure of societies to come to terms individual. 5:30pm with their environments. In fact one of the most This is a breathtaking list. Interactions, of des: Ganges, Thetis, Montague valuable lessons which Diamond teaches is that course, abound. Just to add to the mix, Diamond Leaves Gulf Islands no one factor is critical in triggering collapse; that offers his conviction, with plenty of evidence, FREQUENT 8:00am problems interact, trigger each other, and act in that the environmental trouble spots of the FL 12:00pm YER combination to terminate eras, periods of world are also the political trouble spots. 5:00pm DISCOUNTS dominance, or entire civilizations. Using insights dep: Port Wash, Lyall, Miners from ecology, economics, climatology, sociology, What, Me Worry? 6:00pm Many excuses are presented for not worrying, dep: Ganges, Thetis, Montague geography, technology, and a dozen other disciplines, he shows that the reasons are never ranging from ‘environmental concerns must be FREE shuttle service to main terminal and bus exchange simple. balanced against the economy’, through blind faith in technology and the ingenuity of Finding the Answers mankind, to the belief that things are getting Neither are the solutions. Much of history better and better, to ‘the more people, the more records how societies dealt, or failed to deal with, wealth,’ to ‘all this environmental gloom and the problems as they presented themselves. doom has always been wrong in the past.’ How, and even more critical, why? Diamond devotes a few pages to discrediting all NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF Perhaps they failed to anticipate the future these viewpoints. SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS HARBOURS COMMISSION consequences of what they were doing, having Is there any hope? REGULATION BYLAW AMENDMENT no experience, no memory (particularly in non- Despite an entire book devoted to the failures literate societies), or blindly following the only of societies throughout history and around the The Board of the Capital Regional District (CRD) gives notice that it precedents they knew. Perhaps they failed to intends to adopt CRD Bylaw No. 3295, cited as Capital Regional world, Diamond is hopeful that mankind can recognise the problem until it was too late. And, deal with what mankind hath wrought. He puts District Southern Gulf Islands Harbours Commission Regulation most interesting of all, perhaps they recognised Bylaw No. 1, 2000, Amendment Bylaw No. 3, 2005, at its meeting his faith on leaders who are capable of long term the problem but were unable to do anything thinking, and in the increasing of September 14, 2005. about it because of clashes of interest within their interconnectedness of the world. The CRD Southern Gulf Islands Harbours Commission Regulation society or economy (the ‘tragedy of the But solutions, he feels, must be found at least Bylaw (Bylaw No. 2844) makes regulations for the safe operation commons’ is an example) or because of the within the lifetimes of today’s children. Time is and administration of the docks operated by the Commission in the actions of self-centred rulers. not on our side. The title of this book, ‘Collapse’, Southern Gulf Islands. Diamond identifies, among numerous other is obviously intended to call our attention to this. Bylaw No. 3295 amends Bylaw No. 2844 by: reasons, the ‘sunk cost effect’, where the powers His objective is a heightened awareness. that be are so invested in their prior behaviour • adding 'RCMP' to the definition of 'authorized personnel' He feels that our apparently limited ability to that they find themselves unable to change; and • adding new sections regarding the removal and impoundment learn from our mistakes in the past does not the clash of short term and long term interests, of vessels, watercraft, chattels, and obstructions mean we couldn’t do better in the future. Clearly, exemplified by the modern economists’ • adding fees for the removal and impoundment of vessels, it’s not enough for us merely to hope he’s right. discounting of future gains in favour of ‘Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or chattels, and obstructions to Schedule A - Fees and Licenses immediate ones. And not to forget decision- Succeed,’ Viking Penguin, New York 2005, • adding Hope Bay dock, North Pender Island, to Schedule B - making paralysis—the problems of ‘groupthink’ CAN$44, ISBN 0-670-03337-5 i Docks Administered By The Commission and psychological denial. Enquiries regarding Bylaw No. 3295 may be directed to Mr. Al Cannon, Southern Gulf Islands Harbours Commission Ports Manager, FUEL-EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE WOOD HEATING (telephone 250-539-3036). A copy of Bylaw No. 3295 may be viewed in full during normal working hours, excluding statutory holidays, from Aug. 29 to Sept. 14, 2005, at the CRD offices listed below: • CRD Administration Dept., 524 Yates Street, Victoria, B.C. (8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Mon. to Fri.) Telephone: 1-800-663-4425 (local 3129) or 250-360-3129 Serving the Gulf Islands & Greater Victoria • CRD Building Inspection office, 4605 Bedwell Harbour Road (Driftwood Centre), North Pender Island, B.C. 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BLACK GOLD from page 8 BEFORE YOU SHOP from page 5 Running Out of Oil: we won’t conserve the fossil energy needed to tastier than conventional counterparts. Still, Securing the Future of Food bottom-line minded shoppers find it difficult to What Will We Eat? manufacture alternative technologies.’ 800,000 people starve to death every year. So is this our big chance, now? overcome the mental obstacle of paying more Running out of oil has far reaching implications. Here’s the crazy part: North American farmers Shifting to Windpower for the same amount. Here’s where the extra have a glut of wheat, soybeans, and corn, and The world’s fishing fleets, its forestry, its mines, money goes: In May this year a survey of wind power records they’re going broke trying to off-load them. and its agriculture all are powered by liquid, • Increased labour costs—no pesticides around the globe by Stanford University found Canadian farmers are being forced off their portable fossil fuels. The greatest value of oil and means more hand-weeding and natural pest there’s ample energy from wind alone. Known land and out of business by corporations and gas to civilization is in agriculture. Before fossil control; crop rotation takes extra effort too. fuels, famine was a reality to be feared. wind sources reveal a barely tapped 72 terawatts regulations. The Agricultural Land Reserve • Animal manure—organic farmers fertilize Through agri-business and industrial food of power—40 times the amount of electrical (ALR) continues to rapidly shrink under the with manure and compost rather than the processing we are using more fossil energy than new rules adopted this year. power used by all countries in the year 2000. If cheaper chemical pesticides and sewage sludge. solar energy to produce the food we eat. Is there anything more sacred and worthy of just 20% of the estimated 72 terawatts of wind • Organic certification—requires additional Seventeen percent of the US energy budget is power were tapped it would satisfy all the administrative costs; organic feed for animals is protecting than our primary source of energy? used just to grow, process, and transport food. world’s energy needs. And there must be far twice as expensive as conventional feed. The issues can seem overwhelming, yet Oil and natural gas are used to produce more available because worldwide wind records • Demand outweighs supply. consumers have so far been able to control the agricultural fertilizers and pesticides, making are far from complete. A UN report lists food production market. With information, our food supply completely dependent on these Then there are the hidden costs of conventional windpower growth of 23.9% a year over the last food: bankrupt family farms, increased risk of they are ultimately empowered to change non-renewable resources. This type of decade. The biggest problems for the wind methods of production again. agriculture cannot suddenly be switched to cancer, and water and soil contamination. power industry is that investors want instant On his Salt Spring farm, Brian Brett praised organic production. Organic agriculture will Four million farmers have disappeared in paybacks and poor public acceptance (people his chickens, eggs, and organic produce. ‘I have take decades of land replenishment to leap-frog the last 40 years, and regulations friendly to complain that non-polluting wind towers are the honour of eating good food—real food,’ he from the fossil fuel-based agriculture of today. agribusiness promise to push out many more in unsightly!). Among the best sites for wind said. ‘We should all be so lucky.’ No suitable substitutes are yet in sight for the the years to come. One organic grower noted fossil fuels used in heavy farm machinery, power in the world are around the Great Lakes that farmers have seen organics as a glimmer of Go to www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca for more construction and mining equipment, diesel and the westcoast of North America. hope for economic survival. information on organic foods. i trains and trucks, and oceangoing freighters or In August, the UN reported that the share of jet aircraft. We need high-intensity fossil fuel to renewables around the world, including large WIGAN PIER from page 9 produce the machinery and infrastructure hydro but excluding biomass, has yet to reach town of Wigan. I could not find the famous somehow, that although these islands have required for most alternative forms of energy. 3%. That’s a long way to go to establish a For the present, solar energy itself cannot be renewable energy economy, but we can make it ‘Pier,’ none of the signs told the truth, but I did produced, arguably, the most remarkable body used to manufacture the high-tech devices happen. find the ‘George Orwell’ pub and, until I stopped of literature in any language, they have never required for solar energy conversion. Back in 1981 Hazel Henderson explained it shaking, had a quiet beer in comradely produced anyone capable of writing a set of History informs us that every switch to a new all in The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives contemplation of the great documenter of the parking regulations that make enough sense to energy source for civilization was made on the to Economics. She predicted a new age of misery of industrial England. It is odd, be taken seriously. i backs of the source that it replaced—energy enlightenment evolving from the replacement ‘leap frogging.’ We need oil in order to move of non-renewable fossil fuels by renewable beyond the age of oil, and yet we are simply energy sources. Henderson exposed the PARKS PRINCIPLES from page 10 burning it. hopeless inadequacy of eighteenth century for the past century. and top management priority over recreation. Leap Frogging to Renewables European economics to develop a sustainable ‘Never before has it been so vital to restate, • Parks must not be sold or privatized; they If oil consumption continues at the current rate, future for the twenty-first century. reaffirm and rally in support of the principles should be fully supported by taxes. we are foreclosing on the ability of our She wrote that the switch from fossil fuels to that have guided the management of our parks • Parks are for the public interest; private grandchildren to grow and transport their food renewable energy would be the greatest as it is today,’ says Silver. Sherrod says, ‘the leases in park land undermine the rights of the because we are depriving them of the ability to undertaking in history and result in a great new driving forces behind all our protected areas public. develop a non-fossil fuel, renewable energy age of health and prosperity. It requires the were the spirit, the will power and tax • Parks are meant to be permanent. supply. Global warming will not permit them to cooperative expertise of our best science and contributions of the public. Unmaking parks, changing their boundaries, or The Declaration is based on the principles on go back to burning coke, coal, charcoal, or wood. technology as well as full employment for all the changing park laws to weaken protection are all which parks were originally founded in both With our demands for cheap gasoline and world’s population. Most of all it requires a betrayals of the public trust. electricity we are consigning our future countries and the views of the organizations that vision of a better life for all humanity and the ‘The Declaration forms a guidepost against generations to a new Dark Age. When I say Dark signed the Declaration and public opinion future. which all claims about the purpose and intent of Age I mean persistent famine, war, and disease. garnered from park planning processes. They For the entire life of the human species we our parks can be measured,’ concluded Silver. ‘In In much of the world we witness this now. Is this include: only get to burn oil and gas once. It’s a one-off, the future we want for our families? • The purpose of parks is the preservation of these troubled times, with wild winds of change energy gift from ancient dinosaurs and forests. Bill Rees’s advice is that, ‘We need higher nature. This means no logging, mining, drilling, blowing, our parks help connect society with our Every time you wince at the price of gas think of energy prices now to signal the scarcity to come. hydro development or human settlement. most outstanding natural, cultural and historical Without higher prices we won’t invest in the it as your chance of investing in the future of the Commercial tourism development should stay treasures. The more firmly we hold fast to the technologies needed for a smooth transition to human species—and feel good about it. outside park boundaries. principles of parks, the greater will be the benefit the post-petroleum age. Without higher prices See also article on wind power, page 6. i • Preservation is the most important purpose for all.’ i

ISLAND TIDES, Sept 8, 2005, Page 12 Holidays with a difference You may know that The Land Conservancy of wire fence, de-commissioning an old trail, BC is a group that has been spectacularly planting seedlings, or removing invasive successful at raising money to conserve and species such as Himalayan blackberry and preserve land in BC. But did you know you can Scotch broom. have a holiday and help out at some of these places? But it’s not all work, say organizers, there’s TLC holidays take place in spectacular ample time to explore and enjoy the property habitats at eight different properties and the company of your 8 to 12 fellow throughout the province. Locations are diverse participants. A typical work day starts at 9am and include ranchland, grassland, an island, and ends around 4:30pm with breaks for woodland, farmland, and riverside lunch and tea and bird-watching. Time off can surroundings. For a modest cost holidaymakers get fed be used for a planned activity—anything from and housed and help carry out important tasks going for a hike, to swimming in a nearby lake, in the management of the property they kayaking or horseback riding or to drink in the choose. The basecamps vary for each holiday beauty and solitude of the location. location; you could be in a cabin, barn, or There are two more Vancouver Island under canvas. Meals are provided and you receive rave holidays this year. For more information visit: reviews after a day of outdoor work! You may www.conservancy.bc.ca/conservationholidays/ find yourself clearing a trail, building a barbed i 4-Day Stonebuilders Intensive ‘Bootcamp’ Thursday 22–Sunday 25, September on North Pender Island Photo: Christa Grace-Warrick Hands-on design, site preparation and building of mortared stone steps, Innovative Islanders customize their Smartcar. Irene and Sam DeMueller have home-crafted walkways and retaining walls. This small group workshop is taught by cup holders, a flower vase, and an iPod holder, tucking them into their gas-saving, mini renowned Gulf Islands’ stonemasonry teacher, Bill Child. Instructional transport. They simply enjoy their ferry line-up wait with all the comforts of home! materials and tools provided for the workshop. Topics covered include: • personal safety while doing stonework Salmon genes being mapped at UVic • site design and preparation Using genetic knowledge to improve the health physical map of the Atlantic salmon genome. • quarry visits and stone selection and conservation of salmon and their relatives ‘Four years ago, less than 200 salmonid • mixing, using and curing cement is the goal of a new $15.5 million, international genes were known,’ says Koop. ‘Since then, • cutting up boulders and dressing stone research consortium co-led by University of we've confirmed the identity of about 25,000 • building permanent stone structures Victoria biologist Dr. Ben Koop. genes, and expect to identify another 15,000.’ Registration limited to 5 participants. Fee: $500. The Consortium for Genomics Research on The next step is to determine what the genes All Salmonids Project (cGRASP) is one of 33 do. To this end, the GRASP team developed the Now! By Popular Demand new large-scale genomics research initiatives world's largest salmon gene ‘chip,’ or Hands-On Weekend Workshop being funded across the country by Genome microarray, which allows scientists to study Saturday 24 & Sunday 25, September on North Pender Island Canada, Genome BC and other Canadian and 16,000 genes at once to determine their international partners. The funding, totalling function and sensitivity to disease and Introductory workshop covering most topics with hands-on stonecutting, foundation $346 million, was announced recently in environmental conditions over time. The building, mortar preparation and building experience. Taught by renowned Gulf Islands’ Winnipeg by federal Industry Minister David technology is now used by 40 research stonemasonry teacher, Bill Child. Instructional materials and tools provided for the Emerson. laboratories worldwide to study many aspects workshop. Fee: $250 The consortium brings together dozens of of salmonid biology and conservation. salmonid experts from Canada, Norway, the Over the next three years, the cGRASP Transportation, food and lodging not included in course fees. Bring your own personal safety US and the UK. The other co-leaders are Dr. project will build a genetic map for other gear including: work gloves, safety glasses, steel-toe work boots and knee pads. Come Willie Davidson from Simon Fraser University salmonids, including Pacific salmon, trout and prepared for rain or sun and bring a lunch each day. and Dr. Stig Omholt from the Norwegian smelt. The team also plans to develop a 26,000 For more information contact: University of Life Sciences. gene chip and to identify salmonid genes that Christa Grace-Warrick 250-629-3660, [email protected] The salmonid family of fish includes regulate the immune system and control salmon, trout and char—all of great economic growth and development. The results will be and societal importance to coastal, rural and used to answer questions of economic and aboriginal communities through the fishing, social importance to conservation, aquaculture aquaculture and tourism industries. and the environment. cGRASP builds on the work of the ‘The ultimate goal of this project is to Genomics Research on Atlantic Salmon Project understand how salmonids react to a changing (GRASP), also co-led by Koop and Davidson, environment and to identify the adaptive which winds up this December. 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