VOL 3, ISSUE 34 Salt Spring Island, B.C . PRICELESS
REFERENDUM 2000 ~~...., ... securing Land For Future Community Recreation ~~·~ ~&:: Jt. ' .,. saltsprlng~ VOTE SEPTEMBER 30 parks arts recreations ~~ ______i_sl_a_nd_~_n_ew_s ______Rec ·centre funding depends on referendum outcome by Kelly Waters raised, PARC will be able to afford to keep For years Salt Spring residents have indi the land and will also initiate a Capital Re cated that an indoor recreation centre is a serve Fund to pay for other projects, in high priority. Th e September 30 referen cluding the future expansion of Pmilock dum is one more step in the long process of Kanaka R Park, an athletic park in the south end of bringing that dream closer to reality. the Island, trail linkages, and the expansion Last year, Islanders voted against selling Elementary and upgrade of the Ganges Public Pathway. land that had been donated to PARC. The School Many opportunities to purchase land have money raised from these sales would have been lost in the past because such a reserve paid for land designated for the recreation High School fund did not exist. centre-land that has already been pur If, however, residents vote against having chased but not secured outright. Now resi their taxes raised, PARC will be forced to dents have the opportunity to speak their take $100,000 from its operating budget per minds again. this time indicating whether Rainbow Road year until enough of the land holdings at or not they are willing to see their taxes Rainbow and Kanaka Roads are sold. Since the Commission's budget is already fully raised in order to keep this designated land. The property at 256 Rainbow Road is identified as "2" in the above map. The recreation centre The prope1ty in question is a 7.82-acre lot used, a cut as big as this would greatly im could be located anyvvhere in the 7. 82 acres. at 256 Rainbow Road. PARC purchased pede its ability to deliver services the public has come to e>."Pect. Another effect of such this site for $4 75,000 in 1996 with the spe become useful at some time in the future. services would not have to detract from its cific purpose of developing an active park, a vote would be the lack of a capital reserve The Rainbow Road si te also has a variety natural beauty. including indoor facilities. This parcel fund, potentially hindering future growth of All plans surrounding this site are contin meets requirements for an indoor centre as of natural features that make it a great PARC's properties and services. gent upon securing the land. PARC pur set out by the Commission's Master Plan choice to accommodate the recreation fa PARC's mandate in this referendum is to chased the Rainbow Road lot under a and the Islands Trust OCP. It's bigger than cilities. Along with the field that can be learn what the public wants and then to im ten-year borrowing bylaw, which included plement its wishes. The commission is pro the minimum guideline of 5 acres, it's close seen from the street, the parcel also has a the possibility of refinancing at the end of viding all the information necessary to to the high school and the downtown spring (which could be utilized for some of that period. The refinancing option has facilitate the electorate in making an in Ganges core and it can share in the infra the water supply) and a beautiful grove of been eliminated following recent changes formed decision: brochures will be mailed structure (i ncluding the sewer system). It trees. The wooded area is ideal for creating in the Municipal Act, leaving PARC with a has a safe walking route to the school, it to everyone, a website is running nature trails and constructing a picnic area. deadline of December 31, 2005 to pay the could easily be linked to the Ganges Public (http://www.crd.bc.ca/ssiparc), two public The proximity to Kanaka Road not only of outstanding principal of $450,000. (Most of Pathway System and a geotech test has al the interest on this debt is covered by the forums are planned, and PARC representa fers a safe route to th~ high school but also ready been performed and the result is that rental of the house on the property.) Just tives will have a presence at the Saturday the land is suitable for building. This site is means that the nature trails created could like you can't put a cart before a horse, you Market and at the Fall Fair. They will also also close to two other PARC-owned easily be linked up with the downtown can't build an indoor recreational centre answer telephone and email inquiries and parcels: .46 acres and .76 acres at 220 and pathway system. Plans to develop this site without the land to build it on. attend speaking engagements at group 210 Kanaka Road respectively. These could into an active park with many assorted If voters agree to allow their taxes to be meetings as requested. Fall Fair ·trophies 'due now before·going ' on display
!y!ouat's Trading Co. will be dis rating every part of the Fair popular part of the Junior Horticul (two adult and one youth), one item made from recycled materi playing many of the Fall Fair tro Grounds. We invite Weavers and ture section so we're doing it again. best jam, jelly or marmalade als was awarded to the "wooly" phies in their street level display Spinners to do their "Fair Share" But this year, in keeping with made with Bernardin Fruit sheep made by John Unruh. window for about a week starting and enter Class 33 with an article the theme of the Fair, we are Pectin, and one Gift Basket The BCAAFE competition has on the Labour Day weekend. It's that is handwoven and/or is made doing a "Flower Garden". To Award. The winner of this award been expanded this year and fairs a great opportunity for people to from or incorporates handspun enter this class, kids need to take gets to compete in the National may now enter their winning view the trophies that don't often yarn or handmade felt, and that their entry form to Foxglove Bernardin Gift Basket Contest. items in: Best Fair Theme Article get seen other than by the win includes a representation of a Farm & Garden Supply, at which Last year, Donna Cochran made (knitted, sewn, crocheted, needle ners. flower or a flower-inspired motif. time they will be given a kit that a basket with garlic she had grown point or craft), Best Recycled Ar Two trophies in Needlework This Class is included for this year contains a peat pot, a seedling pot and filled with various items in ticle, Best 4H Educational were inadvertently missed from only, to celebrate the Blooming with 4 different flower plants cluding her own homemade pre Display, and the Best Scarecrow . the trophy list. They are: Seams New Century theme. The class is started, some seeds, and instruc serves. Her basket won first place Entry deadlines Right Sewing School for highest as broad as can be: you are, limit tions on how to put it all together. in the Bernardin Gift Basket Class Entry forms will not be accept points in junior needlework - ed only by your imagination. It is important that the kits be at our fair and then went on to ed after 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Sep under 10 years and the Kay Avi Spinning and Weaving picked up soon as the seedlings win runner-up out of 125 entries tember 9-no exceptions. Don't son Perpetual Trophy for Best There are four new additions to need to be transplanted and the in the national competition. put off completing that entry Fair Isle Knitting, class 39. the previous schedule of classes to seeds planted in order to have a The British Columbia Associa form. Do it now! Send it by mail Last year's winners who haven't reflect what people are doing blooming pot for the Fair. tion of Agricultural Fairs and Ex or drop it into Foxglove Farm and yet returned their trophies to the nowadays. These are: Because there is a limited hibitions (BCAAFE), of which Garden or Mrs . Clean Laundro Farmers Institute caretakers' cot Class 9-Handspun yarn spun amount of display space at the the Salt Spring Fair is a member, mat. The "bows" to enter are on tage, FREE to every household and business on Salt Spring ranteed market penetration rates for display and classified ads , we can deliver your flyer to every residence and business itorial content that reflects our community speaking to itself a layout that is pleasing to read. 2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • ._he :Ua,:riJLa,c:t.e ~~ island ~ _n_e_w_s______ SOLARIUMS • SHOWER DOORS CANOPIES • GARDEN WINDOWS SKYLIGHTS • MIRRORS WINDOWS • AUTO GLASS #3 - 327 Rainbow Road Tel: 537-4545 Fax: 537-4585 Volleyball players gathered this weekend at the Middle School Field for the annual West Coast Volleyball Tournament, a popu Cash & carry while supplies last Official grade lists available for reference. lar outing for Vancouver Island players . Phone ahead and we'll have it ready for you! Earn a 5% rebate for your school. PLUS ... every school supply purchase of $ 1o ~ oo or more wins a " Gimme A Break" ticket. Doctor shortage looms as two You could win a full refund of your purchase price. physicians leave Island practice : - _~r~~,( et cete/*11 _\'!!!~ ~ (Salt Spring Book & Stat ionery) 11 (-"'. 1975-2000 by Peggy Abrahams Shea also pointed out that while and obstetrics," he said. ~;- "'- in the Upper Ganges Centre Physician Scott McNie, a general CPs in nearby Duncan are not accept Myers said he currentJy has between Phone/Fax: 53 7-5 I IS • [email protected] practitioner on Salt Spring for three ing new patients, there are at least two 600 and 700 patients. He said he is years, has announced plans to leave doctors in the Saanich Peninsula with seeking a replacement, but plans to his Island practice the end of August, open practices. _ close his practice in the next few and has not found a replacement to "It's better to have a doctor in Sid months. He said he is informing his take over for him. Another local doc ney than none at all," he said. · patients of his plans. tor, Charles Myers, said he plans to Hospital administrator Karen "''m suggesting they stay on >vith me CAREER -OPPORTUNITY stop practicing conventional medicine Davies said that the hospital would now, but if they have other options it and will likely close his local general like to keep the complement of family would be understandable. I'm accept FOR FASHION ENTHUSIAST practice by January. physicians on the Island at ten. ing new patients into the practice to We take great pride in our quality products, Currently, only two of the eight CPs "We've been following any lead we make it attractive to a new practition merchandising excellence, and customer on the island- Myers and James can. There are a number of medical er," said Myers. Buchan-are currently accepting new journals that we will be placing ads in Dr. Morris Van Andel, deputy regis relations. · patients. The closing of McNie's and and we have faxed an ad to a number trar of the B.C. College of Physicians We provide - medical and dental health Myers' practices will leave Islanders, of facilities across the country. We've & Surgeons said that doctors are insurance for our staff and their families upon pmticularly newcomers, in an even tried to step up our efforts recently," under no obligation to find replace greater quandary about their health she said. ments, but the College does have qualifying as a trained fashion sales expert. care. However, Shea said that it is difficult guidelines for such circumstances. A full -time and part-time position in fashion Don Shea, chief of staff at Lady to attract physicians, even to a seem '"Physicians must make provisions sales is available immediately. Minto Hospital, said the hospital is ingly appealing location like Salt for custody of their records so that pa The applicants should be: not responsible for recruiting general Spring. tients can have access to their records. practitioners. At the same time, he "It's going to be an uphill battle. We do not accept a physician locking •knowledgeable in current fashions and said, on the community's behalf, the There are attractive places all over. up the place and saying, Tm out of trends hospital is participating in an attempt We're competing." here.' •creative, motivated and outgoing to attract at least one new general McNie has been seeking a doctor to "What we suggest to physicians is to practitioner to the Island. take over his practice for some time. give as much notice as possible, a cou •a team player "There are steps that are being ac He was off the Island last week, and ple of months if possible. Put a notice •have an eye for detail tively taken, not necessarily to take could not be reached for comment, in the waiting room, a notice in the •have excellent people skills over Dr. McNie's practice per se, but but in an interview with the Barnacle newspaper, identify another doctor in ' Please send or drop off your resume to: to attract another physician to the· a few months ago, McNie said he had the area and make it the least disrup community." decided to leave because his practice tive possible." Mouats Clothing Co. He said the hospital has applied to here is limited. In addition to his fam Van Andel said this is a fami liar sce 106 Fulford Ganges Road (Harbour Bldg.) Health Match B.C., a provincial pro ily practice, McNie practices anes nario in Canada's medical profession gramme designed to match rural and thetics and obstetrics. today, when increasingly doctors who Salt Salt Spring, B.C. VSK 2S3 outlying communities to medical pro "There is not enough to do here retire or close their practices cannot c/o Kim Mailey fessionals. from the pain~ of view of anesthetics see SHORTAGE p31 'the :Un,:r:n.n,cie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 3 ~ lllail ~ box ".·.·.;·.·.·.s·· moae, · .... ···.··.···· I sat on the grass in English B;y one wann evening a few weeks ago and en· joyed the Benson Hedges Symphony of Fire. The blend ing of music and fireworks is a sensual delight (to me at least). It seems clear that Benson & Hedges will withdraw their spoi}Sorsh.ip of this event next year. .Th e reason is simple. As of Janumy 1, 2001, tobacco c01ppantes. .~ll ?nly~ . allow~q to advertise to adult audiences and only on the site of th(/ eve1}t they are sponsoring. 11J.is means nq ra~o , TV, or newspaper ads for the 'Benson & Hedges Sy!f1phony o[ Fire, or the Du·Maurier Pops, or the Player's Open. ··· I'm a nou.. ~;mok~ r. ij av~ . 9~enJo~ J5 yeu;; ;.rnq.,l'mveh We encourage your submissions on any subject, but please include your name, address Publisher Editor Production Manager and phone number. We reserve the right to edit submissions for accuracy, brevity, clarity J eff Outerbriclge Shelagh P lunkett Peggy Sidbeck and legal obligations. Please keep submissions to 300 words or less. The publisher cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, or artwork. All letters become the ~~u~!l!~!?le . Advertising Sales Ad Design & Accounting & property of The Barnacle. Anonymous letters or those under a pen name will not be pub A publication of Barnacle Pr·ess Ltd. J eff Outerbriclge Production Office Manager lished. The views and opinions expressed in articles are those of ~he authors. Health-retat· Gt·eg Dtll'wai"Cl P eggy Sidbeck Linda Pickell ed articles are for general information only, and are not to be regarded or relied upon as medical advice. Copyright 2000 by Barnacle Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduction or 324 Lowe r Ganges Road Christina Tatnall Gillian Pilon Lynne Durward Salt Spring Island, British Columbia V8K' 2V3 use without permission is strictly prohibited. Printed by Island Publishers Ltd. Phone: (250) 537-4040 Fax: (250) 537-8829 One copy of each edition of the Barnacle is available free to E-mail: barnacle@sahspl"ing.com Contributors residents and visitors each week. Anyone removing papers in Pt~ ~'Y .AJ)rtthams, A1·thur Blttck, June Boe, Joe Clemente, Elizabeth Courtney, Alan Fairlie, bulk will be prosecuted on theft charges. Office hours: Judy l·larper. Kar·en Hudson, Paul lsscrlis, Linda Koroscil , Amci Parkes, J ohn Pottinger, Salt 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday thru Friday Spring Loea l Arlvieesory Committee, Gail Trafford, KeUy Waters The Barnacle uses newsprint containing a minimum 14% Other· times and days by appointment. recycled paper and is printed with non-toxic soy ink. ' 4: TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • -t;h.e :Ua,:r:n.a-el.e ' (~ lllail .1. box · MAILBOX cont'd from p4 as saying that people's con the editors make a mistake·or cerns are unfounded and that is this just another example there will be no problem _ of fudging the news to make making changes to 355 and it fit the philosophy of the the next week saying that it owners??? will be very difficult to It seems obvious to me that change the 355 and we have Canadians want a health care to get it right the first time. system that vvorks and are Borrowman says that no prepared to pay for it even if more input to the law will be it means higher taxes . Pre accepted after August 1, but sumably, higher taxes on the David Essig said last week in rich who have most of the the paper that changes could money. The middle class cer be made right up to the last tainly doesn't have any to reading. _ spare. If you're not alarmed yet, BARON FOWLER, you should be. Chair, Health Caucus, In the summary to the sec Green Party of B. C. ond working draft, on page 7, Borrowman (because some contractors were abusing parking provi A journal as literary as the Barnacle can be found in the most unusual places. Take, for instance, these students from GISS and disappointment sions, and operating out of Yamate Gakuin performing "The Barnacle pose" in Narita Airport, close to Tok yo and Yokohama. Sixteen Island students spent two In the Driftwood August 9, residential areas) it says "any weeks on a return exchange with the japanese school. Population of Tokyo: 8 million. Population of Yokohama: 1 million +. 2000, I was very disappointed parking in the a zone would ' to see David Borrowman get storing unlimited amounts of You use words like war, win, need to be accessory to a prin Civil disobedience about the rights of the citi ting defensive and attacking fight, enemy, adversary, lib zen, but refuse to uphold ciple use on the same lot." heavy equipment... as long a wake-up call people instead of attacking as there is a screen. erally in your letter, anti you them, you lose face and Under Vehicle Storage, on the problems vvith LUB 355. All our properties have Rosalie (War mongers in also seem to be out of touch places at the negotiating page 27, the back door is re He accuses people of being been down-zoned and all our the peace camp the Barnacle with what has been going on table. In the vacuum left by a opened to these activities by Aug.l5), you've been away alarmist and spreading mis neighbourhoods have been in the province generally. succession of hypocritical for a year, and self (not to be · information. allowing all properties on compromised to cater to a cou In the absence of states leaders, (Premier Harcourt confused with Self) is com David is quoted one week Salt Spring to be used for ple of dozen non-conforming manship and real intelli liked MacBlo so much he pelling me to write to you. developers and contractors. gence, our leaders are "bought the company") "the While the Tree Klingons I hope people will continue abdicating responsibility for people" are acting on their have suffered assaults, dam with their efforts to correct the environment. 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AUG 1930 9.2 AUG 1755 10.8 Ganges/ I Phone I 4HP-5HP-10HP-15HP FR 2350 10.2 TU 2310 7.2 406 9:30am Vane. Harbour I0:00·1 0: ISam Sat. only 2 year warranty Maple Bay I Entry valid August 15 · 25, 2000 I Ticketing available through your local travel agents. ."<>' """" "" ~------~--~ -t;he :0-.:riJL-.cl.e • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 ~ ~~ island ~ _n_e_w~s______Come & See High school graduate dies after accident Dance dedicated to Max's memory by Peggy Abrahams Other youths on the Island have Many in the Island community were been upset by Abley's death, and have shaken last week by the accidental come forward to offer their help with death of Max Abley, 18, who graduat the dance, Maltby said. ed from Gulf Islands Secondary "We've had a number of kids call Chris School this June. He was the son of and volunteer for the dance, because David Abley and Melva Geldreich, they wanted it to be what Max wanted and brother to 15-year old Nick. it to be. They do know Max would not Abley suffered injuries after diving have liked it if we had cancelled. He The REAl~ off rocks at nearby Prevost Island a was so fu ll of life, we've got to go for week ago Saturday and died early last' ward." week. A celebration of Abley's life was held Marks Bros.. Abley had been hired, along with at the United Church on Saturday af Adrienne Butcher, by the Community ternoon. His best friend, Mark Sloan, at Services Society to run a summer said that so many people attended, youth action programme. Subsidized they could not all be accommodated SALTSPRING'S DECORATING STORE by the government, the programme inside. was designed to create activities for Sloan said he and Abley grew up PA I #tiT youth on Salt Spring. together. Cathy Stringer, receptionist at the "We spent our earliest memories as PLUS Community Services Society, had Max Abley carefree days on Salt Spring soccer fields and in the pre-school at the - UPPER GANGES CENTRE • 538-5555 known Abley for many years. She said (next to Dagwoods) Abley had a significant impact at the cated to his memory. Abley had nego community centre ... Max's death was tiated with the Legion to produce a Centre. devastating to many people. I knew Bring in this ad and enter to "He was a refreshing ray of sun series of five dances for youth under him about as well as I know myself. I 19, once a month from now until shine. He was always smiling and suppose, if Max had to go, he would Christmas. win $100.00 in paint laughing, and had a great sense of have wanted such a send-off. Shelley Maltby of the Legion (retail value, excluding taxes) himself. There are counsellors here "He loved life with a passion, and worked with Abley in setting up the lived life as few will ever manage. who only met him once, who are event, Cloud Nine Hip Hop Dance. Watching him leave-was the hardest deeply affected by his loss. That's the She said a dance would be held the thing I will ever have to deal with by a NEWSITEM? presence Max had." third Friday of each month, as thousand times. Friends come and go, PHOTO OPPORTUNITY? I Stringer said that Abley had planned planned. but true friends are hard to find and Let us know! Ph. 537-4040 Fax: 537-8829 . . .. · . to travel next year. "We formed the Meaden Hall Max was a true, true friend to me and email: [email protected] I'\ -D~.!~.~.le 324 Lower Ganges Road "He'd been given a graduation gift Dance Club in June. Max was hired many others. I will miss him more i from his family of a ticket, and he was by the community centre as a youth li than he will ever know." going to use it." aison. He's going to be sadly n1issed .. . Robin Voaden, a friend and class A youth hip hop dance, organized by He was one of those tall drinks of mate of Abley's said: "He did a lot of Abley. will be held Friday at Meaden water. He was so full of enthusiasm, good things and contributed to a lot of Hall as scheduled, and is to be dedi- always smiling," said Maltby. people's lives." SWOVA trainees hired as facilitators by Attorney General's office by Peggy Ab rah am s prevention to school chil Voaden said that she be SWOVA co-ordinator, said Marika Swan and Robin dren from kindergarten to lieves the cause of vio that the hiring of the two HOROSCOPE FOR THE WEAK This week emphasis will be placed on your physical Voaden, who both gradu grade 12 throughout the lence prevention is very young women was gratify health and how you look in, skimpy clothing. Of ated from Gulf Islands province. The women important. ing, particularly as they course, if you're a bit lumpy in places it's not quite so began five weeks of train Secondary School this "Working with SWOVA have just completed high easy but si mplicity in diet and outlook wil insure that June, have been hired by ing with the Office of the opened my mind to how school. you need not worry about it. A fl thi ngs pass. the Attorney General's Of Attorney General last much violence there is out "We never intended that Yo u can not step in th e same cow patty twice. Once fice as interactive work week, and will be based in there, what sexual harass our work would be job is enough if you watch where you step. Forgiveness shop youth facilitators. Burnaby. ment is , and what is , and is training, but it's happened then, can and does work miracles. It al lows you to pull Both had worked and Swan said that her expe not, acceptable. I think a as a spin-off and it's quite your feet out of the mud and across the kitchen floor. been trained as youth fa rience with SWOVA in lot of awareness needs to a lot of recognition for our A stranger jumps out of the closet and surprisingly, cil itators by Salt Spring cluded learning job skill s be raised on that." work here," said Laush it's you! And you're wearing a dress. Women Opposed to Vio like preparing workshops, Lynda Laushway, way. Try to see th ings wi th new eyes. Or at least glasses. lence and Abuse self-motivation and team The other questions you've been asking yourself will be answered shortly and you' II wonder why you ever (SWOVA) for two years. work. uses newsprint containing a worried. They will be responsible "They gave me all the minimum 14% recycled for writing and presenting skills I needed for the paper and is printed with workshops on violence job," she said. non-toxic soy ink. Are you ready? • for wireless Internet? 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During that time two Haised anchor at seven this morning ... 1(/~p~ (~ police di ed (1918; of flu ), and two Inuit heading for Cambridge Bay, went through were tried and hanged for murder there. light ice, saw soi11e seals or the splashes Park Ranger Andy Tardiff told years later they made, but no polar bears. Where are Paul Isserlis i_s Elbow Room, a bar written up in Playboy of how he and yo ung friends would swing they? aboard the Simon Fraser, accompanying as an exciting place to be when the fishing on ropes in the police warehouse used for Mark and Gilles assure us of more polar the St. Roch II on its voyage ci rcumnavi fl eet's in port-something about belly surf th e hanging. H e also showed photographs bears , and Na1whals and Bowhead whales gati ng No rth America to raise funds to re ing on beer the length of th e bar. Our ex of his grandfather as a special constable in the future. Sure, polar bears yesterday, store the original St. Roch. You can follow citement was a fi sherman buyin g a $300 and grandmother who was a guide and polar bears tomorrow but never polar bears the voyage on the St. Roch website, round for alL when he rang the bell at the cook to Stefenson, an ex:plorer, early in th e today! tvu;u;.st roc h.o rg. bar. century. Tomorrow off to Tuktoyaktuk, where we July 25 Today we are anchored near th e A further Salt Spring connection is Car 't16mk., e ....·...... fOIL ~. will receive fu el, stores and two passengers. St. Roell II in a nameless bay on St. olyn Dymond whose parents are at Long Tuk is too shallow for the to IIL.e our lo" Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, waiting Harbor. Carolyn, a teacher, is running a Simon Fraser enter, so a barge will bring everything to us. for a northerly gale to die off, so we can web page updated daily, (when the satellite Then, unfortunately, on past Paulatuk, fu el the St. Roch II and proceed to Point phone is working) for the Vancouver school PRICES% where Inuit scultor Abraham Anghik is Barrow. at the nmthernmost tip of Alaska. board. From the web site: www.stroch .org We had a great time in Dutch Harbor, click on the "Learn on board" icon. from, on to Cambridge Bay. 0 0 " Unalaska Island (part of the Aleutian Is " 0 0 August 1 We andhored thitty mil es from lands chain). Sunday, June 23, we were July 30 We have just left Herschel Is Tuktoyaktuk because of the shallow waters. open to visiters and had a barbeque on the land, in the Beaufort Sea just off the Yukon Laszlo and Peter went to Tuk on the St. pier, put on by the town of Unalaska. coast, which was the first RNWMP post in Roch II. I stood by the fuel barge. Appa An ex-U.S . mivy man asked to see a mon the Arctic. Herschel has a fasinating histo rantly Monday was a holiday so the main key's flst made, then bought it for twenty Just $6.75 + GST ry: in the 1880s, up to 20 whaling ships with store was closed, unlike the American dollars US to the Save the St. Roch Fund. Liner ad, 20 words or less over 2,000 men would winter there, along towns where stores were open till ten every Each additional word: 25¢ Monday we had time off to see the island. with hundreds of Inuit, to party and trade, night. Also no TUK U T-shirts, because of The locals are very friendly; when we hitch making it the the biggest town north of San a copyright case. hiked into town they insisted on taking us Francisco. By the turn of the century, In Tuk we were joined by Seth and Beth everywhere and showing us everything. Canada was worried that all these Ameri Berkowitz, photographers; Leann Parker ·B~!dl_!~~le After Summer Bay, th e Russian Church can whalers would claim it for the USA, and Norm Torp, RCMP film crew; and, The Best Deals in Town! and the museum, we ended up in the and about how much booze was being sold from Ocean Sciences, Patricia Bay, with 324 Lower Ganges Rd. to the Inuit, so they sent two RNWM po- Salt Spring connections, Mark Trevorrow, 537-4040, 537-8829 (fax) GEORGIA. Natural Gas Pipeline STRAIT CROSSING INFORMATION SESSIONS MARINE PIPELINE ROUTE PROJECT *' The Georgia Strait Crossing Project (GSX) is a joint proposal The first two hours of each event will be a drop-in open by BC Hydro and Williams to build a pipeline to transport house followed oy an overview presentation and discussion natural gas from the supply hub at Sumas, Washington to period. The sessions will be held at the following locations: Vancouver Island's popula Vancouver Island . The new pipeline will provide a southern Saturna Island - August 24th (Thursday) tion and economy are link between the existing Centra Gas transmission pipeline on Vancouver Island and the existing transmission systems Saturna Community Hall growing and the Island will 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. presentation) require additional electrici owned by Westcoa~t Energy (Canada) and Northwest Pipeline (U.S.). (see map below) ty supply. Currently, only Galiano Island - August 25th (Friday) about 20% of the electrici Galiano Community Hall ty supply is produced on Is 141 Sturdies Bay Road land. Some components of As part of ongoing efforts to obtain public input, the GSX 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. presentation) the aging transmission sys Project team is holding information sessions on the prelimi- tem supplying electricity to . nary marine route. The sessions will include an overview of Salt Spring Island - August 28th (Monday) Vancouver Island from the the marine survey and environmental studies which have Royal Canadian Legion Hall been conducted during the summer months. As well, there 120 Blain Road, Ganges mainland are reaching the 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. presentation) end of their serviceable life will be opportunities for the public to ask questions and pro vide their input. and the lost capacity has to Pender Island - August 29th (Tuesday) be replaced. Two new nat Anglican Church Parish Hall ural gas-fired facilities are 4703 Canal Road, North Pender Island being developed on Van· 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (7 :00 p.m. presentation) couver Island to generate the required electricity and Mayne Island - August 30th (Wednesday) the GSX pipeline will sup· Mayne Island Agricultural Hall 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (3 :00 p.m. presentation) ply the fuel needed by these power plants. The Sidney- August 31st (Thursday) GSX project, combined Sanscha H;:lll with'the new generating 2243 Beacon Avenue plants, will help ensure a 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. presentation) reliable electrical supply on Vancouver Island. For _more information, please call our project information line at 1-800-663-1377 (toll free), e-mijlil us at gsx@bchy- THE POWER IS YOURS dro.com or check our web site at ' lfn ~msWilli~ . . 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Talk to Greg, Christina I 5 I Kangro Road, Salt Spring Island or Jeff at '537-4040 -u~!.'::r!.~Ie Call Diana • 537-2930 FuUord Day 2000 ~ . fi\1~0 00 {k )/® Fulford . Day 2000 was supported by many local and· off-island businesses, organizations and individuals. In particular, we thank: E A Thousand Words Gulf Islands Fuels Patterson Market V) c Picture Framing (McColl's) Paul McGowan & friend Q Q) Ace Courier Services Gulf Islands Driftwood Pepsi E u0 (Bob, Lisa & Tom) Harbour Hair Gallery Pinnacle 2 for 1 Pizza HCIIIIiiWt!!U-s:its next to his latest work, which was installed at the new Aroma Acoustic Planet Music Harry Burton R. C. M. P. Crystal Therapy store in Gasoline Alley on Sunday With him are store owner jane Janzen Andy McNish Hostess Potato Chips Ray Simard and manager Catherine Lilly-Hooper. Th e painting, depicting an Aegean oceanscape, was Anonymous (K. Sadler Foods) Robert Bateman mounted on' stole's the front counter, which was designed expressly as a setting for this B. C. Hydro Crew ICECO Robin Bardon work. In describing the painting, Halliwell wrote: "All of jane's products are designed to B. C. Parachute Team Island Star Video Ron Pultke Barb's Buns Jambalaya - Beads, Ron & Sue Spencer heal the skin (or balm the senses), and we wanted to represent all five senses in the paint Beaver Point Hall Hats, Curios Rose's Seaside Cafe ing.· sight by the beautiful scene and colour itself, sound by the musical instruwents and run Betty Ford Jesse Mclaughlin Royal LePage Realty ning wafer, smell by the aroma of the flowers and essential oils, taste by th~ bowl of fruit, Big Bear Services Jim Akerman Ruckle Farm (Mike and spirit by the crystals and crystal ball at the center of the fountain. " Bob Ballantyne Jim Fogarty- Tax Lane) Bristol Cutter Hair Co. Consultant School Dist. 64 Bryan Zapf John Pottinger Maintenance Carol Evans Just Mike's Pure Department Sensitive ecosystems focus Carron Carson Mountain Water Salt Spring Aquafarms Dave Beck Repair K2 Park Services -· Salt Spring Kayaking Service (Ruckle Park) Salt Spring Roasting Co. of stewardship workshop Dave Hogarth Kathleen Horsdal Shelly's 4 x Pottery Dave Moulton Kay Catlin Slegg Lumber Do you long for the property. Depending on contact the Salt Spring Declan Noonan Leaf & Limb Stuff & Nonsense spring display of Chocolate participants' interests and Conservancy office by Dennis O'Hara Lillian Mack Ted Akerman Lillies and Blue Camas? Do level of knowledge, the first phone at 538-0318 or email Denton Farms Marjorie Clark Terra Bella you suspect that Shooting part of the workshop will be s s icon se rvancy@ sal t Don Smith Markus & Deirdre The Barnacle Island Stars and Blue-eyed Mary spent learning about Garry spring.com for location de Donald Gunn Tessmann Journal Elodie Stauffer Merv Walde The Bread Lady once coloured the rocky oak ecosystems and on tails and to reserve a spot. Embe Bakery Mike & Bev Byron The "Face Pai nters" knolls around your home? plant identification skills. Salt Spring . Conservancy Foxglove Farm & Mike Lane The Music Emporium Are your Garry oaks being Most of the day will be stewardship a d vi ~ ors Garden Supplies Moby's Marine Pub The "Pie Bakers" swallowed by a thicket of fir spent on removing exotic Patrick Walshe, Robin An Fred Moulton Morningside Studio The refreshment garden trees and an inpenetrable species and planting and derson and intern Blake Fulford Elementary Moss and Rain crew undergrowth of Ocean seeding natives species. Richards are also available School Mouat's Trading Co. The Wardrobe spray? If you worry that ex The workshop instructor to visit your. land and an Fulford Hall Association Mythica - The Fairy The Wrangellian otic broom and grasses are will be Carrina Maslovat, of swer questions on steward Fulford Hall crew Nicholas Bardon Gumboot Dancers choking out a Garry oak Woodland Native Plant ship issues, and library Fulford Inn Noella Fraser and 4-H Thrifty Foods meadow near you, then this Nursery in Victoria and resources and handouts are Fulford Inn kitchen staff members Tom , Josh and Willy workshop is for you! who is studying competi also avallable from the of Ganges Village Market 0 . A. P. 0 . 170 Tom Pickett ~ Through the Stewardship tion between native and in fice in the Upper Ganges Garry & Bly Kaye Old Dutch Potato Chips Tree Frog Daycare project, funding is available troduced grasses for a center which is open to the Grimm's Fine Foods Ltd. Pacific Produce. Treeline Pottery (Peter & to provide free professional Masters degree at the Uni public Tuesdays and Thurs Gulf Islands Brewery Parks, Arts & Recreation Dorothy Price ) Commission Windsor Plywood ecological management versity of Victoria. Next days 10-2. plans for landholders who time you are in Victoria you The Salt Spring Conser WE ALSO THANK THE MUSICIANS: Black Velvet, Burgoyne Bay Blues Band, want to protect sensitive can see an example of her vancy Stewardship Project Dennis McCue, Evil Twang, K. C. Kelly, Richard Cross, The Barley Brothers, ecosystems or restore areas work in Fernwood by visit is sponsored by Ecoaction The Escape Goats, Triskele Celtic Band of their property. The Salt ing a small Garry oak · 2000, The Real Estate Spring Conservancy has restoration and water-wise Foundation, Mountain RAFFLE WINNERS: Larry Cross, Lydia Purser; Betty Swindlehurst, H. Campbel l, Mona Warren, Pat Barclay, Jill Woodward (Langley), B. Finnemore, El sy Perks, Mort Ransen, Bev Byron, Mari e commissioned a manage demonstration garden on Equipment Coop's Envi Wheadon (Duncan), Nicholas Bardon, Jacqueline Sutton, Colin Drummond, G. A Simpson, Nick ment plan for the Fulford the corner of Kings and ronment Fund, The Habi Langford , Bev Bolton, Simon Wells, A. Sadler, Stan Dereli an, Jill Edwards, E. Boekwyt, Laura area property where the Roseberry (1 block North tat Conservation Trust Moore, Arnie Hengstler, Val Gustafson, Keith O'Donnell , M. Nordine, Nadene McCoy, Kay De Garry oak workshop will be and East of Haultain and Fund, The BC Environ nofrio, Margaret O'Hara , Transition House, Clai re Brenton (Sidney), Dan Akerman, Tamara held. Fernwood). ment Youth Team, The Salt Lemky, B. Finnemore, Olive Mann, Jan Dodds, Denise Kickbush, G. A. Simpson, Wynne Miles Workshop participants Because of the practical Spring Founc!ation, The (Victori a), Kay Donag hy, Mariloo, Sharon Doobenen, Tam Miskey, B. H. Drummond (West Van.) , Dennis Parker, Bridgid Hoban, Colin Drummond, Martha Marcott·-:, Karen McKeou·gl:l will learn practical skills as nature of the workshop, Salt Spring Conservancy they help to implement the only 15 to 20 participants and many dedicated Con See you at "Fulford Day 2001 " • Sat., August 11, 2001 management plan for this ~an be accomodated·. Please servancy volunteers. 't.he .Ha.:r:n.a.cl.e • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 9 ______rn_~_d~ep~fu ______Half a century to get here Maxwell Lake ·protection efforts have long history by Tom Gossett Crofton, Frank Spencer, Don Lake watershed, the southeast successful due in part to the use would remain with Texada Storr, Nick Gilbert, Hank corner of the watershed (approxi complex, expensive legal process Logging and any revenue from n a sunny morning in Schubart, Maralyn Horsdal, and mately 50 acres) owned by Texa and ultimate lack of support by timber production on the proper June of 1978, Mike Lar Bob Blundel. The committee was da Logging Ltd., a British the Ministry of Forests and the ty for timber would go to Texada 0 mour and I stood on a well organised by 1981 and it was Colombia company owned by a extravagant demands of Texada Logging. All logging would be on rocky point overlooking M • 0 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • ~he :Ua ;r x.a,c•e ~~ - $100.00 WORTH OF island ~ _n_e_w_s___ __~ PROGRAMMING FREE WITH EVERY BELL EXPRESSVU 18" SATELLITE SYSTEM! • Over 400 on Saltspring Island • • Guaranteed Brilliant Picture • • Free Site Surveys • · True North Satellites 538-1705 ~IBC Canadian Imperial C Bank of Commerce Personal Banking Representative Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce currently has an opening for a Personal Bonking Repre sentative in the Ganges Branch. All applicants considered. Mortgage and.loan experience an asset. Please apply in writing with resume to: Vicki Johnson, Branch Manager An outing at sea-Greenwoods residents set out for a tour of the harbour aboard the Queen of de Nile last Thurs Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce day. The jaunt included a tea and sing-song. The annual excursion is sponsored by Salt Spring Marine Rentals. 120 Fulford Ganges Road - Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2S4 SWOVA gets $5,000 grant uses newsprint containing a minimum 14% recycled paper by Peggy Abrahams "It will bring skill-building and Prevention Centre enabled the and is printed with nol)-toxic soy ink. The Ministry of the Attorney education workshops into the class local production of a video on the General has awarded. a $5,000 grant room, particularly focusing on same theme as the school pro to Saltspring Women Opposed to healthy relationships. We've done a gramme. The video may be bor Violence and Abuse (SWOVA ), as lot more work on the material and rowed from .SWOVA's resource part of a project to help prevent vi feel very confident," said Laushway. library or purchased for $25. olence against women. Attorney General Andrew Petter Laushway and two students, According to SWOVA coordinator said in a statement: "Government is Marika Swan and Robin Voaden, . Lynda Laushway, the grant will be committed to helping communities who have been trained by SWOVA SOLD used to fund an ongoing SWOVA develop violence prevention strate as youth facilitators, recently trav program, Women and Violence: gies which meet their unique elled to Montreal to participate in IN ONLY 5 DAYS! Education is Key. The programme, needs. Projects like this one offer an international symposium on vic a series of workshops held in local localized solutions to address an timology. SWOVA was one of only schools, is co-ordinated in partner issue that affects everyone in the two Canadian groups to be invited ship with the Gulf Islands School community." by th e National Crime Prevention District Career and Personal Plan A previous grant awarded to Centre to be presenters at the sym ning Program me (CAPP). SWOVA from the National Crime posium, said Laushway. GREEN PARTY ~'Talk about effective advertising!" In the July 25th issue of the Barnacle, we placed an ad on the front page with a photo and a brief description of ou_r house for sale. Within two days we received a number of phone calls including one from as far away as Austria. The first offer came in only Jive days after the ad came out and our house was SOLD in one week! Talk about effective advertising. Thanks so much to the Barnacle. David and Alison McNamar . All welcome. 324 Lower Ganges Road a question and answer period. 537-4040 t;he Ha,:r:n.au~l.e • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 •• ~~ island ~_n_e_w_s____ ~------ · case of the mumps. I division, not to mention the I consistently fail to grasp I can see clearly now... missed about three weeks nuanced niceties of nouns, simple concepts like, well ... r of school during which tin1e verbs, adjectives and gram flying, for instance. W~ r::t W~ ... 1(1~ A~ EW my classmates, under the matical guff like that. How the hell does that despotic tutelage of Miss I missed the whole thing. Boeing 747 stay up in the I want to set the record I blame it on the mumps. Thatcher The Hun, cov I've been faking it ever since. air like that? straight: it is not my bult Away back in Grade Four ered the mathematical con I think this goes a l~mg Oh, I've seen the physics. that I am as dumb as I am. I came down with a severe cepts of multiplication and · way towards explaining why I know all about the princi ples of propulsion and air displacement and the eleventh law of aerodynam- ics and all that. · I just don't believe it, MIL['ENNIU that's all. ::NEW That's okay. I've been cruising along under my CUSTOM H6M·E& 0FFIC A:IIE '::;:SHOW personal cosmos of vast ig norance for years. As a mat :); '':;:}::~'=· ' - .):: s~fijrday, August 26tH ~ .·.· .. ter of fact, I was just getting , l~~~i used to it when they ; ,f ~ ' {:larbour House Hotel (Main Banq~~ t . HaU) 121 Voller Ganges, Salt Spring Island dropped the latest bomb shell on me. Last month am - 4:00 pm {;,!~" Time Magazine announced day in 1 lifi~ Blue F.oom that scientists have discov SSION & PRIZES; ered that the universe is flat. What? Flat??? What the hell are they talking about? Do they mean flat like a slice of Ryvita? Flat like a sidewalk slab? No, accord ing to Time, it's more like ... a carpet. Fine. So is Planet Earth on the topside of the car pet? The underside? Or buried in the nap along with the celestial dog hairs, cigarette ash and mustard spills? More important-what's beyond the carpet of our universe? Out there beyond the tassels, if you will? More carpets? Maybe ' a throw rug? A couple of lace doilies? I always thought the universe was infinite which I also had trouble vi sualizing. Colossal, I can understand. Colossal is Saskatch ~wan. Mel Last man's ego. Dolly Parton's ''ans1!Jt;r any. twin icebreakers. But never-ending? Turns out (according to the latest ex instlillatidn perts anyway) that it's not never-ending at all . It's fi nite-just lil~e Aunt Beu lah's Persian carpet. Only, um ...... bigger. No thanks. I think I'll stick with my favourite galactic philoso phers-:-the Monty Python gang, who reminded us so pithily in song: The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whiz · As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know 12 million miles a minute that's the fastest speed there is. So remember when you're feeling vert} small and in Nuble 11 Tu/lmn £ f.. . (: 0 . ,i-f ~~{:,;. . a '*'""' ?'.'.~ secure f ~ L.ITHDN.IA L.IGHT.ING How amazingly unlikely is J~ your birth. And pray that there's intel ligent life somewhere up in space Because there's bugger all down here on Planet Earth. •2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • ~he .Ua,:r:n.n,cie ______e_ n_t_e_r_t_a__ ~____ e_ n__ t ~ _a__n _ d__ t_ h_e__ a_ r_t_s______Mozart as he heard it by Elizabeth Courtney demands of listening to two such closely re Mozart's portrait never looked so at home lated sounds, the experience became as in as hanging behind the beautifully inlaid timately rewarding as a conversation honey coloured wood fortepiano, the pre between the soul and its beloved. cise elegance of its dainty legs foreshadow After the bell-like clarity and dancing ing the pleasures of the evening to come. measures of the opening Sonata, Phoebe Saturday night's performers took the time MacRae joined Dunn for a quartet of to describe the instrume11ts they were play songs. More robust and dramatic than ing. Michael Redshaw, a faculty member of Chvatal the week before, she brought a the Victoria Conservatory of Music, told us thrilling range of tone and feeling, beauti 2 his instrument was a replica of a fortepiano fully matched by the rich tone of the guitar { built in 1790 by a Dutch harpsichord to a selection which included one Chvatal ] maker who, apprenticing with the famous had sung, making for an interesting com ] Stein builders in Germany, would have parison. o built something very much to Mozmt's After this champagne feast of Mozart, 0 taste.The fortepiano stands between the fortepiano and guitar joined for two pieces Dancing .was definitely on the agenda for these and other teens, enioying the sounds of the New h arps1C. h or d an d th e grea t romannc. . p1anos . by Beethoven. The first, an Adagio written Town Ammals and the Grames Brothers (below} that were to supersede it with great banks when he was still very young, was per • d th of sustained sound, and it was a tremen- formed with exquisite soulfulness, the G00 d mUSIC, goo wea er dous pleasure to hear the intricately pat- brighter echo of the guitar full y exploiting terned contours of Mozart's endlessly joyful the yearning quality of the melody. Never ~:~:~con an instrument so sublimely suited have the acoustics of ArtSpring done such ma ke Street Da nee a success . justice to a performance, I thought. The by Kelly Waters band enjoys Redshaw's touch on those lightly leather next piece, Variations on a Theme of Moby's Street Dance 2000 was a great playing fam- padded hammers as deft and sure as cats' Mozart, had been originally written for success, as usual; even the weather co-op- ily events paws running over the strings. At first it cello and posed more of a challenge for the erated! like the took great concentration to really hear the lower strings. Many Core Inn volunteers spent last Sat- S t r e e t following contours of Alexander Dunn's The Fantasia 'in D. Minor was sheer urday afternoon converting the parking lot Dance. plucked strings on his small bodied guitar, pleasure, the silvery runs and melancholy next to Moby's into a live music venue. "The kids itself a replica of an 1885 instrument built chords of the minor section concluding in a Others ran the concession stand during the are always . by C.F. Martin, the great-great-grandfather vivacious finale of the major section, again evening's event. The Core Inn will receive b e t t e r 0 of the now famous Martin guitars. Not for providing an interesting comparison for the funds raised at the dance. d a n c e r s { long, however. As the ears adjusted to the see MOZART p31 New Town Animals kicked off the night than the with tight punk music. The band had high, adults," he high energy, especially the drummer, observed. ~ Varied programme at M&M Nathania! Renaud, who grew up on Salt The band Spring. Friend Micah Booy commented, · even got the audience to sing _along with Music and Munch on Millerd, 13, whose talent to the piano after a 10- "He's a machine on those drums!" them. A different batch of girls danced to August 23 wil l be offering as a trumpeter has earned year break, having gradu Renaud's parents also attended the gig. this band, along with a lot of teens and an eclectic programme of him several awards this ated from UBC with a BA "It's great! It's fast," laughed his mom, adults who had shown up by this time. music for trumpet and season. Audiences at this in music. Lynne Richardson. Organizer Trish Nobile was "happy to see piano, scoping the event will enjoy both his Mitch Howard has ap The crowd also appreciat~d the music, a starry night" and enjoyed seeing so many Baroque and Romantic ·skill and mature, calm peared before at Music especially one group. of girls who didn't young people and families having fun to era and into the 20th cen presence in an assortment and Munch, bringing with stop dancing. gether. Nobile mentioned that many teens tury. Presenting this excit of trumpet duets with him his teaching skills to After an hour-long wait, the Grames would be having a difficult time Saturday ing lunchtime music will Mitch Howard and in sev demonstrate the fun and Brothers took the stage. Their sound is pol- evening because they had attended a serv be trumpeters Mitch eral deli ghtful pieces with the fundamentals of play ished-;-a mix of reggae, rock, and blues. ice for Max Abley earlier in the day. (see Howard and Simon accompanist Jennifer ing the trumpet. They played mostly original tunes with story on page ..... ) The Street Dance was Millerd and pianist Jen Howard. Free music begins at some covers thrown in, especially when the dedicated to Abley as a celebration of his nifer Howard. Indeed, it was Simon's 12:10 p.m. at All Saints' audience requested them. life and several of his friends were to sing a Youngest member of the need for an accompanist by-the-S ea followed by Johannes Grames, lead guitarist, said the piece in his memory. family trio is Simon that brought Jennifer back lunch for $4.75. Wednesdays & Thursdays 7:30p.m. 1 HR. 34 MIN. -the :U n,:r :ruu~Ie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 •a entertaininent ~ and the arts Designer & High-end Top Qu ality Lab els NEW WORK5-New large works from Northwest Coast Master Carvers have recently arrived of Pegasus Gallery, including Grace Point Square (opposite the Liquor Store) a four-foot Sun Mask by Mervyn Child Hunt. josh Prescott, under the tutelage of john Livingston, has brought in an amazing Open 7 Days a Week- 537-5955 circular carved panel of-yellow cedar with the Whole, Thunderbird and Hawk design. Bateman previews in Sidney The only North American preview the Everard Read Callery was estab underwater orca, both mysterious Prepare for of artist Robert Bateman's new show, lished in 1912. Its directors are ar and monumental; a smaller piece (3' Diversities, will take place at the dent conservationists, an aspect of x 3') features an elephant skull that Mandatory Peninsula Callery in Sidney from Au the organization that appealed great evokes the sculptures· of Henry Licensing gust 26 to September 4. ly to Bateman when he was invited Moore. For the past two years artist Bate by Mark Read to paint challenging Bateman admits to being influenced THE GOVERNMENT .OF CANADA HAS INfRODUCED man has been working on 28 major pieces both in subject matter and by 20th century abstract artists such as LEGISLATION WHICH MAKES IT MANDATORY FOR ALL works for his first one-man show in a size. Although the majority of the Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko and PLEASURE-CRAFTERS TO HAVE AN OPERATORS CARD. decade. The show will open at the resultant works have an African evidence of this can be witnessed by a Enroll with the Soltspring Island Everard Read Callery in Johannes theme, the range is global, encom- . discerning eye in some of his works . . burg, South Africa, on October 24. passing Antarctica, Ireland, India, More information about the Sidney Power &Soil Squadron One of the most respected and so Bali, Israel and North America. One exhibit, call 250-655-1722 or visit the Fall Boating Course phisticated galleries in South Africa, of the larger works (4' x 8') is of an website: http://www.pengal.com. 13 weekly 3-hour classes Evening of sacred music at Lions ·Hcill at G.I. S.S. starting Sept. 6th @ 7pm A very special evening of original dience will be invited to interact and found" aijd "liberating." {Every Wednesday) music with local, accomplished ·musi participate with the performers This is a rare opportunity to catch Cost $ 165.00 per person cians Barry Livingston, pianist/com throughout the ceremony. There will Livingston in an intimate on-Island REGISTRATION DEADLINE poser, and percussionist Laurent also be chair and floor seating avail setting, before he goes on to perform- SEPTEMBER 1st, 2000 Boucher will be presented Friday, Au able for those who desire primarily a . ances in Seattle and the Sacred Music For further information call: gust 25 at the Lions Hall by Inspirit listening e:>.:perience. F~stival in Vancouver. Joining Liv Brian Tolman 537-1737 Music and the West Coast Sacred Arts This event is a fundraiser for Liv ingston will be Laurent Boucher, a Note: Early registration recommended due to class size limits Society. ingston's first CD of original uniquely talented percussionist heard The evening, beginning at 8 p.m., music, and tax deductible dona in many Salt Spring musical settings, will take the form of a sacred music tions will be welcome following including the band Sunyata. ceremony, to be performed within the the concert. Livingston's last per Suggested admission for the Lions context of Livingston's song cycle-, the_ formanee on the island was called Hall event is $10, and pmticipants are Earth Prayer Project. This is a com "the event of the season," and his requested to bring a co mfortable Come see our munity-orientated event, and the au- music has been described as "pro- blanket and/or cushion. full stock of DA ILY LUNCH SPECIALS GE Dishwashers ~ $5.75 ' ~ LUNCH ...... Tues.-Fri. 11:30-2:00 ~ DINNER ...... Tues.-Thurs. 5:00-10:00 ~ .. : ...... Fri.-Sat. 5:00-11:00; Sun. 5:00-9:00 :t:} LICENSED- CLOSED MONDAYS Golden Island CHINESE RESTAURANT Upper Ganges Centre- Ganges • 537-2535 Thank you for ENJOY READING THE BARNACLE? your support! Voluntary subscriptions are a way in which readers can show their afpreciation and suppott by helping us with the cost of publishing. I you would like to purchase a voluntary subscription, please drop ·hH~!l!~~le by, or send your cheque for Ph: 250-537-4040; Fax: 250-537-8829 On-Island Voluntary Subscription $39.00 yr._ 324 Lower Gang~s Rd Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2V3 or $79.00 yr./within Canada • 4: TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • -t;h e Dn,:riJLn,cie A visitor's look at Salt Spring Island Salt Spring ?lta,Weed- J!tBOOKS Boardwalk Cafe Books, magazines, FULL BREAKFAST newspapers, internet &LUNCH MENU access and art supplies Sam- 4pm Now open 7 days a week + Licensed (dockside, Mouat's Mall) 537-5747 t out Q 0 _£ Q. Jl c: 2,"' Basketry incorporates new ideas with tradition by Judy Harper tionol and new age materi spends ~ great deal of time ore intricately woven tiny Isla nds Community Arts · will feature internationally "Baskets ore containers in als and techniques.Though searching for and gathering copper and stainless steel Council, and a member of known masters from around which the threads of human busy during the summer cedar, red and yellow osier, baskets, Iorge wood-bot the Salt Spring Island the world holding work history and the natural tourist season, the studio grapevine, wisteria, sedge, tomed abstract baskets, toll Basketry Guild. The Guild, shops on the shores of world intertwine and hold offers workshops and class tule, willow, and kelp, (to vase-shaped, and boot together with Pacific St. Mary Lake. If you ore endless possibilities of cre es during the slower winter name just a few) much as shaped baskets. The. diversi Basketry, is sponsoring a interested in this event, or in ative expression ." months with all of the con the ancient aboriginal cul ty is unlimited, bounded week of willow basketry any of the classes at Lorna's The ancient croft of basket tributing basket makers tures did. The gathered only by the craftperson's classes and workshops at studio you can reach her at making is al ive and thriving teaching their individual materials ore then bundled, at Pacifi c Basketry Stud io, specialties. stored and dried; then imagination and skill. the end of August. Dubbed 538-0033, or visit stud io 7 own ed and operated by Lo rna stresses that it soaked in water for pliabili Lorna Commoert is also a the "Fa bulo us Willow on the tour at 190 Lorna Commoert. Lorna would be impossible to be ty just pri or to use . ch a irperson fo r the Gulf Week", this unique event Broadwell Rood . was born in Calgary, but involved in the croft without Each artisa n has a has lived in various comm u bei ng mindful of its tradi fa vourite material or nities on the West Coast in ti on, but is all fo r incorpo approach, resulting in on the States as well as rating new ideas and mote endless variety of baskets, Canada. When she retired rials into her work. There is, some for practical use, and to Salt Spring, she took her she says, on enormous others simply for aesthetic first class in basketry and amount to learn, and has appeal. Lorna's fa vo rite fell in love with it. That was token several courses and technique is a trodional five years ago, and she has workshops over the years, cedar weave, sometimes never looked back. including a retreat in incorporating copper for Today, Pacific Basketry is Washington State and les contrast and a contempo a thriving little business and sons from aboriginal rary look. the only basket Studio on women. Often row materials such the Salt Spring Tour. She Finding, at the beginning, as bull kelp change shape that supplies were hard to shores her studio space with as they dry and toke on a five other basket makers: come by (subject as they ore life of thei r own, producing Pot Bennett, Joan Carrigan, to seasonal gathering), she Donna Cochran, Lionel had to look farther afield, abstract shapes which may Demondre, and Elno ordering from supply spark a creative image. Gravelle, whose creations houses in Canada and the Procion dyes, subtle or ore all on display in on States, and eventually vivid, con be woven into amazing variety of trodi- becoming a supplier. She patterns old and new. There 25 SUNNY ACRES ~ ToM NAVRATIL WITH MANY VIEWS ~ MLS & Re/Ma> Ach;,.ment Aw.,ds •Super investment •1999 taxes: $131 Rf{Mfl< of Salt Spring •Great building sites •Recently opened up Close to Mt. Maxwell Park 131 Lower Ganges Rd ., Salt Spring Island, BC (250) 537-9977 or 1-800-787-6972 (Ca n/US ) ~225 .. 000 www.saltspringrealestate.com Out & About "the Du,:r.-.u,cl.e • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 ·~ Tuesdays 8pm S1moneso ) Summer Jam with Mike Lammers Thursdays 5-9pm Ethnic Vegetarian N ight This week: GREEK Open 7 Days a Week - 537-8585 TUESDAY On the Waterfront AUG. 22 - SEPT. 2 AUGUST 22 Al Desert Island Choices Reading, music and a visitor-what would you pick if you were ~ Toy Li b rary. Portlock Portable. ~ Children's Art & Craft I ~ s· 9:30-1 0:30am. Beaver Point Hall. Family Place. 9:30-11 :30am. Free. C stranded on a desert island? 12-l pm Stories at Fables Cottage T This week's castaway is Candace .0 Engine Room !0:30am C Buckler. Candace has lived most of ,® Treehouse Cafe. 7-9pm Calligraphy Fables Cottage, j C her life on Salt Spring with her small '" Davidson, Moffat and Wood I~ ¥ family of four. "One sister" she says, 1 Vo rtex Gallery. Friends & Neighbours Lunch F< "and parents who have stayed .0 Musical Comedy. K together. Must be the family sense of A rtCraft Mahon Hall. Daily I 0- Harbour House. 12pm ar humour!" Her literary career started Spm Music & Munch C in Grade I 0 when she met Leah Bob Rogers Mo by's J & M Howard, S. Millerd: Piano & F1 McColm and started writing poetry, .0 Diana Dean: Paintings Trumpet.AII Saints'. I 2:10pm N quickly followed by stories, essays, Talon's Lisa Maxx Treehouse Cafe. 7- M and finally the Grade 12 writing class where she really Margie Korrison 9:30pm H appreciated the support and encouragement of other writ Bristol Hair Cutters 6: ers. The magazine Aurora she helped to found is coming Wednesday N ight Live Michael Aronoff Sweet Arts 'i1. Open Stage. Moby's Pub. 9pm Si along nicely, and Candace will be reading a selection of her Michael Levy: Photographs ~~ Arge ntinian Tango Se poems for the AIDS Walk next week. Roasting Company Come and visit our ,®Practice. Lions' Hall. 7:30pm The Book: "Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. It was so 0 Summer Show 2000 Ewart Huichol Exhibit & S ale H crazy, so all over ~he place. and yet made such perfect Gall ery ArtSpring Gallery. 11-?pm F1 sense. I could probably re-read it a hundred times before I CObD Asha Robertson: Masks. @> Cente ring P rayer c got it all. And then there's the Lord of the Ring-oh dear, I Lu igi 's suppose that's not allowed!" Contemplative Centre. 7:30am. ® c Beer and Wine Store Huichol Exhibit & Sale S. End Centering P r ayer M Great selection of local and imported beer & wine. The Disc: "Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. I've ArtSpring Gallery. 11-?pm a:;jil St. Mary's Fulford. I I am u, already listened to that a million times and will be ab le to @> Soup's On Free soup and C aregivers Support G roup. ~ II Free 2 for 1 Pizza Delivery in Fulford area (or pick-up)! handle a million more without any trouble." ~ Pizza HotLine: 653-4432 Best Pizza on the Island! a:;jil sandwich.AII Saints'. ll :30-1 pm Seniors' Centre. I I am j\ E< Fellow castaway: "I would like that to be Kurt Vonnegut. at the head of Fulford Harbour • Phone: 653-4432 ~ SSI Paddler's Club 50-Plus Bowle rs AI I've always wanted to meet him and have wondered how ~ United Church Ha ll . 7:30pm ~ Meeting. Kings Lanes. I I am p, to fin agle it-and he's getting rather old so I can't leave it i\ Easy Summer Fit i\ P u blic Sw im Shelby Pool 3- Sh much longer. I've thought of wri ting him a really interesting All Sai nts'. 8-9am Spm B; letter and if he wrote back with a return address, I'd just Public Swim Soccer Co-ed Drop-in Gl Specializing in the natural use sell a few things and get on a bus an d go visit." of fresh seasonal Shelby Pool 3-S pm Portlock. 2pm flowers. VOTE September 30 REFERENDU1 __ owerSby LEGEND . MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Special Event AUGUST 28 AUGUST 29 AUGUST 30 Arraf18ement *~ Children PerfonningArts ~ Storytime 1.0 Little Marty & I* Corlnternet Cafe Open House ~ c ~ Beth Cherneff Music West of the Moon. Cousin Harley I A(] Connect to the Web! Core Inn. l-4pm Co .0 I Oam Tree-ho use Cafe. 7- o/ Children's Art & Craft 520 Long Harbour Rd. Dance 1-4 537-9252 ll' Kindercraft 9:30pm 1 Family Place. 9:30- 1 I :30am. Free. ~ St< Gallery ® Fables Cottage. ,®Willow Week I Stories at Fables Cottage I 0:30am 10: @> Interfaith I lam Exhibition & The Wall 2 Day Climbing Camps. Th Meetings & .0 Midnight Cafe Discussio n. SS Community Services Lectures ss 8 Acoustic Jam. ArtSpring .0 Bookbinding Fables Cottage, I pm Rose's Cafe. 7pm w. 0 Health @> Soup's On Friends & Neighbours Fan Susheela Dawne Lun ch Musical Comedy. Harbour House. Noon Jhro/afofl ~ Sports and Free soup and .0 Fri Trio Authorized Shipping Agent i\ fitness sandwich. All Another Open Stage Robert Delion host. Di r Tree-house Cafe. Cinema / TV Saints'.ll:30-lpm King Lane Rec. Centre. 6:30-9pm Ho Located at , a:;jil ?-9:30pm 0 The Wisdom of Music & Munch Sin Review in this ~ Georgia Strait issue Menopause Ted Hickford, Bruce Smith: Flute & Guitar. All Sen Mrs. Clean Laudromat ~ Crossing Saints'. 12: I Opm The easiest part of your day Video & discussion Op CALENDAR BC Hydro Project. . Shilo Zylbergold Tree-house Cafe. ?-9:30pm in "Gasoline Alley" Public discussion. of Dr. C hristiane Ful ':t Argentinian Tango Practice. Lions' Hall. 7:30pm CONTACT: Legion Hall. 5-9pm Northrup. Seniors' ®co ~ Centre. I 0:30am 0 Blood Pressure @> Centering Prayer l!;jil Uni i\ Easy Summer Elizabeth Clinic Contemplative Centre. 7:30am. ~ MS Fit S. End Centering Prayer Sen Seniors' Centre. ~ Courtney Drop in . I Oam- All Sai nts'. 8-9am a:;jil St. Mary's Fu !ford. I I am #9-149 i\. Ea! 12pm Public Swim ~ Caregivers Support Group. All Fulford Ganges Road ~ Ph: 537-4040 i\ Public Swim Shelby Poo l 3-Spm ~ Seniors' Centre. I I am 537-4133 Pul Fax: 537-8829 Shelby Pool 3-Spm i\ Public Swim Shelby Pool 3-Spm Bac from 8am daily email: [email protected] Soccer Co-ed Drop-in Portlock. 2pm LARRY J. LeSAGE, A.I.LC. Arlene Modderman In-store demonstration of both INSURANCE 537-4090 systems. Compare picture . . AGENCIES LTD. quality, sound, programming, AN C H 0 R 5 year bank rate: etc. right in the store! Phone: 538-0022 8.25% • Bigger really is better. .. Toll Free in B. C . ... ask us why ~ 1 -800-663-0877 Insurance for Home, Business, Rentals, Travel, RV & Boats Variable rates at less than prime. C a Ia C::; r-c:::1-t-a! Mozart montn at ArtSpring FINAL. :2 PERFORMANCES Dancer$ Dancing -Aug. 25 THURSDAY Jame$ Parker - Aug. 27 AUGUST 24 ~ Stories at Fables Friends & * Mozart Festival Dancers Dancing: J: * Mozart Festival Cottage I 0:30am AJ Clarinet Concerto.ArtSpring. 8pm Neighbours ,.., James Parker: Piano.ArtSp ri ng. 8pm TheWall2 Day o/ Stories at Fables C ottage I 0:30am Dinner Musical • • Sout hern G .I. AIDS Walk we never lower our standards. Climbing Camps. SS Comedy. Harbour ~ Painting Fables Cottage. I pm Concert. Cent. Park. Meet I Oam Just our prices.N Community Services House. 6:30pm Friends & Neighbours Dinner Paper Boys at Everlasting Water Park Fun Barrington Perry 537-1522 Musical Comedy. Harbour House. Summer Garden Faire. I I am-5pm Family Place. I 0-noon Alfresco. 6:30pm 6:30pm Susheela Dawne & Ramesh Kindercraft Age 6 Harry manz Sacred Music Treehouse I I am-3pm and up. Fables 'i!. Treehouse. 7-9:30 ,.., Cottage. I pm Barry Livingstone & Laurent Boucher: Friends & Neighbours Concert/Ceremony Lions' Hall. 8pm ...: Swing 'n Wheel Lunch Musical Comedy. Harbour •• Friends & 2000 Salty Wheels House. Noon Neighbours Dinner Ba rrington Perry Dance Weekend. Musical Comedy. Soft jazz. Alfresco. 6:30pm Farmers' Institute The O t her Brothers Fulford Inn . 6-9pm Harbour House. Little Marty & Cousin Har ley Tango Party Lions' 6:30pm Treehouse Cafe. ?-9:30pm 1Q1 Hall. 9pm-midnight Susheela Dawne Trio Treehouse Cafe. ?-9:30pm Sing Along Group Open Stage Rose's Cafe. Fulford. ~ Library Book Sale Seniors' Bldg. 2pm 7pm Library. I Oam-1 pm Dinner jazz www.mobyspub.com 537-5559 'i!. Ron Hadl ey Trio. Moby's Pub. 8pm Open Stage with ~ Salty Wheels Su mmer Sq uare Dance' Green Party Host Vaughn Weekend. Farmers lnst. Leadership Jl ~ Swing 'n Whe el 2000 Wednesday Fulford Treehouse Cloud 9 Hip Hop Youth Dance All Candidates IQI Farmers' lnst. .00 Cafe. 7pm Meaden Hall. 8pm-midnight. Meeting. 136 Lr. ~ Outdoor Market & Auction Night 9.PM @)Community Swing 'n Wheel 2000 Salty Wheels Ganges Rd. 3pm Fu lford Inn. 9-4pm LIVE! ~ Meditation fiiiiJj Dance Weekend. Farmers' lnst. i1- Power Yoga with Garry Oak Restoration W kshp. Hosted by ~~l~lrlefli United Church. '''illttll ' Marla Thirsk:Acrylics & Peter Bennett ~ Fulford. I 0-4:30pm ~ !1 :30am Watercolour ArtSpring till Aug. 27th Fulford Hall. Bam-Noon j1. Power Yoga with Peter Bennett i1.. Easy Summer Fit B Divining the Goddess Public Swim Shelby Fu lford Hall. 8am-12noon -·-·-·-·-·-·-·- All Saints'. 8-9am Weekend Workshop on Land and Sea Pool 12:30-3:30pm Public Swim Public Swim ~ with Aland ra Mclaren Saturday Lap Swim Shelby Pool 3-5pm Shelby Pool. 12:30-3:30pm i1- Public Swim Shelby Pool. 3-5pm Shelby I I :30-12:30 Badminton Club Badminton Club RON HADLEY Power Yoga with Peter Bennett Yoga workshop GISS gym. 8pm GISS gym. 8pm SS Centre. I 0-5 Fulford Hall 6- 1Opm Yoga workshop SS Centre. I 0-5 Trio securing Land for Future JM 2000 community Recreation THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Hastings House AUGUST 31 SEPTEMBER l SEPTEMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 3 RELAIS & CHATEAUX Corlnternet Cafe Open House * Corlnternet Cafe * Corlnternet Cafe .0 Friends & Neighbours Cjjummer cj1ne 0:aining Connect to the Web! Core Inn. Open House Launch Lunch Mu sical Comedy. Harbour l-4pm Connect to the Web! Balloons, BBQ and House. Noon Three Splendid Courses at 6 pm $59.00 ~ Stories at Fables Cottage Core Inn. Web. Core Inn. I l- The Other Brothers Five Exquisite Courses at 8 pm $75.00 l-4pm I 0:30am 3pm IQI Fulford Inn. 6-9pm Stories at Fables Friends & Cocktails served from 5:30 T he Wall 2 Day C li mbing Camps. ~ .0 ~ Outdoor Market & Auction SS Community Services Cottage I 0:30am Neighbours . . ct 250-537-2362 I goo-661-9255 ~ Fulford Inn. 9-4pm Reservatwns reqUire Water Park Fun Painting Din ner Musical Comedy. Harbour i1- Badminton Club {; Fam ily Place. I 0-noon Fables Cottage. I pm House. 6:30pm GISS gym. 8pm Casua_l Dining in the New Veranda Friends & Neighbours .0 Friends & Neighbours Dinner Musical Comedy. Harbour Dinner Musical Comedy. Barrington Perry House. 6:30pm Harbour House. 6:30pm Soft Jazz. Alfresco. IQI 6:30pm Sing Along Group Barrington Perry Seniors' Bldg. 2pm Soft Jazz. Alfresco. tl Library Book Sale Upstairs Library. I Oam-1 pm Open Stage with Host Vaughn 6:30pm from 9:00am Fulford Treehouse Cafe. 7pm Open Stage @ C ommunity Med itation Rose's Cafe. Fulford Ql United Church. I I :30am 'i!; Harbour. 7pm Jlt Atomic Blues Band ~ MS Society Sway Dance. Meaden ~ Seniors' Building. 7pm ~ Hall.8-lpm it Easy Summe r Fit NOTE: your listing in the Community Calendar is sponsored by the advertisers on this All Saints'. 8-9am i1- Public Swim page. Help us keep this calendar as current, up-to-date and extensive as Shelby Pool. 3-Spm possible and please support its sponsors. To see your event listed in the Community Public Swim Shel by Pool 3-Spm Calendar, you can drop by the Barnacle office at 324 Lower Ganges Road, and pick Badminton Club GISS gym. 8pm up a form to fill out. Thanks! Harbour Bldg. (enter beside the Travel Shop) Martin J. Hoogerdyk Certified Financial Planner Buying or sellingt Call me for a FREE market evaluation Call Patrick Akerman 537-9977 24hrs. BERKSHIRE Toll Free: 1-800-731-7131 e-mail: [email protected] 225 Connorant Crescent ~ ni:./AA ...V Realty of 537-1730 ""':ttl! fllt.I7'P'I~ Salt Spring e-mail: [email protected] & 131 Lower Ganges Road li------il-t;h.e :Ua-:rxuu~Ie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • ~ ------<:::lt + ~Ollf o~n~S~al~tSLpr~in~g~Is=la~nd~------Sailing charters offer adventure by Amei Parkes When I visited the Caribbean two su mmers ago, it seemed my family and I were the only people there without a boat. Sailboat, speedboat, barge, small reach before sunset. channel over there?" ferry .. . you name it, that's how people "I just want to lie down Answer: "A guy used to run zipped about their business. We looked for a few hours and enjoy the a coffee stand, but he got tired like misplaced European tourists, back ride," says Deb from Salmon of waiting for customers.") packi ng around Bequia . Where was our Arm, setting the tone. Excitement peaks when we boa t? , people asked us . And enjoy, we do. cut the motor on this not-so Salt Spring, like the Grenadines, has En route to Galiano to windy day, and set the sails. a boat culture. The marinas buzz with re-fuel and top up our tea What do we do, asks fishers, sailors, plea sure cruisers and cups, we gaze at lofting Edmontonion Mel, who is kayakers, all going about their business. birds and passing boats. roused from her slumber. As a landlubber, I've become pretty When we are not lying hori "Hold your breath," entrenched in my life on the rock. So, last zontal on the deck, we ques quips Mellor. Ahhh, sailing is the life. in this sweet summer breeze. week I decided to see what all the fuss tion Mellor about life on the Zig-zagging from Prevost I write this aboard the Eight of us-3 Salt was about. I booked myself on the sail water. Conversation drifts Island to Beddis Beach, we boat cruise, L'orenda, or "spirit" in 40-foot sailboat L'orenda, as Springers and 5 visitors from sailing info (his boat is seem to do just that. Iroquois, for the afternoon. (See A Quick we tootle around Trincomali relax on Don Mellor's after fashioned after an 1850 For more information, Look for more on this adventure). channel. The gentle lull of noon sailing charter. There is Norwegian vessel) to down call Don Mellor at 538-0084, And, as they say, there are more fish waves, the surrounding vistas nothing goal-oriented about right tongue-in-cheek or check out his website, at ahem, sailboats-in the sea. You can hitch and the hum of happy con this voyage--no fish to humour. (Question: "What's www.saltspring.com/ rentals/ a ride with any number of cru ising outfits. versations saturate my senses catch, no destination to that big red buoy in the main.htm. Take the Curlew II. Four to eight peo ple can set sail on th is 36-foot trimaran aficionados, aboard his 36-foot sloop, course. Harrison also teaches lnternations handling, navigation, anchoring and at $40 per person for four hours. Mark Malaika, out of Fulford. As a sailor at Sail and Power Association (ISPA) cours emergency procedures. Four students at a Coulter, who also lives on the boat, runs heart, his first love is for the experience. es. These five-day, four-night courses time practice aboard a 25-foot Catalina. his tours from the Ganges Marina. He "I just want to get out and do some teach participants about navigation, The courses, says "Captain Mike," are calls this ex-racing boat fast, but stable. sailing," he enthuses. anchoring, rescuing, motoring and land incredibly popular, with only a few spaces "I can be sailing at eight or nine He also caters to visitors' desires to ing at dock under power. By the end of left in August. Courses start at $479 (with knots, and the dishes are still on the· combine sailing and hiking. Portland Island, the course, graduates will be certified to out accomodation) and $679, including table," he jokes. near Swartz Bay, is a popular destination. charter a boat in fami liar waters during B&B, some meals and course material. Coulter usually starts his journeys Its windy trails and close location make it daylight. He a lso teaches the next level, Perhaps I should have taken the sail without the motor, and sails right off, an ideal place to visit for an afternoon. advanced coastal skippering. · ing courses before naively venturing off well ... right off into the horizon. But Harrison's self-proclaimed trademark Another sailing school, the Salt to the Caribbean. O r maybe I just had to cliches aside, this adventure starts from a is self-made, baked treats and a warm Spring Sailing School, gives a three-day wait to find a sailing adventure waiting in my own backyard. canoe, as he paddles you to the three coffee or tea. He and his wife, Susan cruising course, replete with a Canadian Call 538-0084 to sail on the hulled sailboat. Cat on the bow, and all . Evans, also run a garden-rich B&B near Yachting Asociation (CYA) certificate L'orenda. Call 1-888-708-3580, ext. "W~Icome Aboard," with Ted Weston Lake. upon completion. Harrison, also offers a potpourri of sail If loafing and lingering (or hangin' Michael Friedman, one of the CYA 2390 to make a booking on the Curlew ing adventures. Harrison charters every out, then hiking) are not your cup ot tea, instructors, spearheads the school. II. Call 653-4311 for Welcome Aboard's kind of sailor, from rookies to Harrison offers a hands-on sailing "People are very excited about it," he charters and sailing school. Call 537- says of the programs. Students learn boat 2741 for the Salt Spring Sailing School. • artisans & info • farmers & food • beaches & events The market and more. / ~V_ V\._~ saltspringmarket.com AUGUST 25m- SEPTEMBER 7TH "SHOW STOPPERS" A mixed media exhibit with new work from jane Stafford, Shirlee Lewis, judy Weeden, Donna Vanderwekken, Melissa Searcey, IJenys St. james Out & About ·~ TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • ~he :0-.:r:n.-.cl.e ------0 t +AOllt ~o n~S=alt~SCpr;~n g~I s=l a=nd~------ WATERFRONT RESTAURANT & CAFE RESTAURANT upstairs CAFE ground floor Jresh seafood. pastas. famous soups. lunches. steak. lomb. chicken. coffee. baked goods ribs & duck I /> At Grace Pora~g~ ~~;~~~~~~ ns 537-597~ .;(> / 0 FERNWOOD "Y 0 0 ~ «JJw~l]l &l]l~ I C©>l]]lJP&l]l V GANGES TEA COMPANY Specialty Teas and Cuswm Tea Blending • Dana Soapworks 1 •Ha ndmade Soaps & 170 Fulfo rd Ganges Road Personna[ Care 537-2578 I Products @) %e llom-llpm Vesuvius every day Inn NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB It's An Island Tradition Great Pub Food Large Smoking Patio • Next to the Ferry (19 and over) O ~ z • _Showers & Bathrooms • 18 Cabins 'Z • Poo ( Sauna, Hot Tub • Banquet Room ';)>' 7) 1136 North End Rd. 537·2205 ';:e 0 ~ ,/' c., SPACIOUS PATIO Cold Beer, Wine & Cigar Store • 9am-11 pm 12 1 UPPER GANGES ROAD • 537-557 1 (i} ...:Par-fsser{e &' cafe TOSWARTZBAY, ~ VANCOVY'EPIIC\.AJitO All_Day Breakfast from $3.99! VICTORiA AI«> U.S.A Mon.-Sat. 7:30-5:30; SWl. -7:30-3:30 378 Lower Ganges Rd. (next to Fields) Map of Salt Spring Island courtesy of SSI Lions Club . A Ncrtural Source creenside ofWellness 537 - 4111 ~--~ct1aant 1460 Nor-th Beoch Road SSI Reservations Recommenc:lec:l Located at Salt Spring Golf & country Club "the Da,:r.-.a,cie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 ID .~---...... ~ !",., ..... _..__ ... ' ... .. -...... - · .. - ...... ~ .. .:. ~ .- . .;:;..;~ ...... ~ '0 +A . onSaltSpring l sland t out $1 Galiano SOUND, SIGHT AND SENSES Mayne PRESERVATION ••• In 1990, the Water Wed.-Sat. (4 days!) Preservation Society had gas motors July & Aug. banned rrom St. Mary Lake. This lake sup Departs Salt Spring ...... 9:00am Departs Mayne ...... 3:50pm plies most of Salt Spring's drinking water. It Ganges Miner's Bay Arrive Galiano ...... 9:50am Departs Galiano ...... 4:00pm is aerated and treated with chlorine. Sturdies Bay Sturdies Bay Arrive Mayrie ....•...... lO:OOam Arrive Salt Spring ...... 4:50pm Miner's Bay , ----,-- INTO THIN AIR••• The net loss to evap No charge for bicycles oration from April to September is about 12 ~uulf ISLANDS WATER TAXI inches on each Salt Spring lake. Reservations ••• 537-2510 DEEP SUBJECT••• Maxwell Lake is the deepest at 63.3 feet. Ford is the shallow Bowling est, at 11 .5 feet. Shelby pool is 4 to 4.5 Billiards feet deep (and 25 yards long). Arcade POWER IN NUMBERS ••• Shelby Pool Gredt Food! Try our halibut & chips has six certified lifeguards on staff. Three or famous burgers are full-time and three are part-time. About 500 people are enrolled in swim 9-9 Mon.-Sdt. 9-5 Sun. 154 Kings Lcmc 537-2054 ming lessons from July to August at Shelby pool. Last year the Salt Spring Stingrays swim team had 85 members. 0 0 ..<:: WHAT'S IN A NAME? Stowell Lake a. developed from the name of an early set Jl • Colour ~ • Complete hair care tler named Stowe. So where did those two 2, extra l's come from? PILGRIMS TO PARADISE-Lise Nadeau left Quebec City to Proud When "lake" was holiday on SaiJ Spring because she heard it was paradise, a healing sponsor STUDIO 103 abbreviated on a of the B.C. island. She says it is a good place to visit and it would be a nice place Summer HAIR DESIGN map, it appeared as to come back and stay. Games 2103 Grace Point Square - 537-2700 "Stowe L." It then became "Stowel. L," which then became "Stowell L." Queen of de Nile HARBOUR FERRY MEET YOU AT EMSLEY'S••• WHERE??? Stowell Lake was first 7Days a Week during July &August Fisher's and then Emily's. Blackburn Lake was first Conery's, then Brown's. Leaves Moby's lour Weston Lake was once Olsen's and later Stewart's. Maxwell Lake was once 9:00am • 1O:OOam • 11 :OOam • 12 Noon • 1:OOpm ISLAND de Mainses'. Ford Lake, named after the Salt S13ring pioneer, Fredrick Ford, • 2:00pm • 3:00pm • 4:00pm (Fri., Sat., Sun. only) -.... TRIVIA started as Ford's, but was changed first to Mollet's, then Price's Lake before • 5:00pm (Fri., Sat., Sun. only) taking its current name. Confused yet? Leaves Dinghy Dock 9:30am •10:30am •11:30am •12:30pm •1:30pm • 2:30pm MAKE IT, BAKE IT, GROW IT••• The Saturday Market takes its mandate from other farmers' markets around • 3:30pm • 4:30pm (Fri., Sat., Sun. only) • 5:30pm (Fri., Sat., Sun. only) BC. But because the market was experiencing growing pains, it decided to nix two vendors who offered psychic serv ices. Leslie Wallace, who gives channeled readings and Kathryn McDonald, who does Tarot readings, were turfed out in 1996 when they didn't offer a tangible service. Wallace, who made a "huge fuss" was allowed back in for two Colours more years. Cuts Styles Perms MARKET MUSIC INFO FROM THE WEB ••• "In the heat of the afternoon, there_is usually an impromptu drumming and didgeridoo session taking place in the park. The local marimba band is a favourite, and you might catch musicians from any part of the world travelling through as part of the summer Festival of the Arts." For more LOCKS, STOCK & info, see http:/ /www.saltspringmarket.com/. 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I I 1Q /o OFF (,o:~~") : SAVE $4.00 EACH TIME YOU GOLF. ~ -..r ,~ ~ -...... :::t:t (i • Screen Repairs P.HONE 537-2121 FOR DETAILS. ~cou••n _ ~ ~ • New Screens • Window Repairs !I I I I ~ I GsLtandG ass Ex ires November 30, 2000 3-327 Rainbow Road • 537·4545 ~------·------~Out & About 20 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • -the :Ua,:r:n.au~Ie The 2000 S.S.I. Invitational ~vting 4 entertainlnent ~ and the arts was once agam• a great success ~r_-y-~ .~;.,.?- due largely in part to the following hole sponsors: "~c-l' .Holy Cow! Katz' misadventures in India Greenside Restaurant Hastings House Hotel Harbour House Hotel Cedar Beach Resort Thrifty Foods Windsor Plywood by Elizabeth Courtney beautiful and funny by turns. Indians Pharmasave Mouat's The pews were full. The setting I have met are sick of the cliches evocative. Incense burning, candles about their country. Their cuisine is Ganges Village Market flickering, Indian art and sacred unequal!e·d anywhere. Their architec Th ank you also to contributors and golf club sculpture forming a backdrop to the ture, performance arts, literature, members who volunteered their services. storyteller's empty chair. At the pre mythologies, traditional crafts, engi scribed moment, a cloaked figure ca neering, medicine, costume, poli pered up the aisle wearing the tics-all repay serious attention a Ganesh (elephant headed) mask that thousand-fold. But often tourists denotes the unfolding of an epic tale. speak only of the the poverty, chaos or Tossing aside his disguise, Stewart possibilities for enlightenment. Kafz's Katz sat down and proceeded to di selections had a tendency to steer a vert his audience with extracts fro m little too close to the cliches of th e his book-in-progress-Holy Co,w! hapless traveller, an impression he as NEWS ITEM'? Katz explains to us that his journey sures me refl ects his choice of open 0 OPPORTUNI to India as a 29-year-old and the sub Stewart Katz with Ganesh ing chapters to read, and will be balanced in the chapters to come. sequent process of writing a book was Let us know! Meanwhile, the audience thorough about "finding his voice," a transfor India, he dealt almost exclusively with Ph. 537-4040 mational process that turned an inno dreadful hotels , suffocating crowds , ly enjoyed his hilarious recountings of dire excretory facilities, food reminis his often terrifying first six weeks in Fax: 537-8829 cent, vulnerable and unprepared email: barnacle@saltspring .com cent of shit and boils, the constant ha this challenging and rewarding coun westerner into an appreciative trav. rassment by pove rty ~s tricke n try, appreciating fully the moments eller who can laugh at himself while children, evil-eyed old women or when he is awe-struck by the depths gradually opening to some profoundly limbless men. An insightful moment revealed in unexpected meetings healing e>:periences which deepen the comes after a shame-inducing scream with the wise and gentle eyes of a meaning of being human. The voice to "get the f... away from me" when he temple elephant for instance, or in the he has found is somewhere between is struck by the realization that the ob eyes of devotees as they wait for the Woody Allen and Bill Bryson, highly scene old man just wants to be "seen. " Dalai Lama and the surge of smiling successful humourists. This should be My Own feeling is that India, like energy when he passes. quite encouraging. anyone anywhere, wants to be heard As a polished performer, Katz is un Probably unintentionally, the first as well as seen and I would have en half of his presentation was enough to joyed hearing some of the chapters usually equipped to entertain with his deter any sane person from setting where he gets into more revealing en own writing and it should be even foot on the Indian subcontinent. Fo counters with his Indian hosts. more enjoyable when balanced out cussing on his first impressions of Stewart Katz writes very well: terse, with some of his. later adventures. PlenJy, of nothing goes a long way by Elizabeth Courtney sheer musicianship and at rin times five, add in dra How Shall I Fitly Greet ,In spite of . the rave tention to detail of both matic choreography and Thee , and gave it an utterly reviews which preceded acoustic and visual space very cool clothes, an unbe contemporary treatment, M-Pact's electrifying per demonstrated by these five lievably tight back up band losing none of its history in formance to a full house at mesmerizing young men of bass, wailing guitar, in the process. Lead singer ArtSpring on Friday night, from Seattle. spirational drum, sweet Britt Quentin's range must I was bowled over by the · Imagine Bobby McFer- horn and various other be five octaves at least with sounds emerging from lim a soaring high soprano itless vocal chords and (counter tenor gives the sheer imagination· and you wrong impression) and begin to have it-a vocal spectacular scat effects. As jazz-based a capella group they moved from the who can take anything gospel flavoured Your Love from ballad to rock to blues Keeps Moving Me Higher and shape it with a unique through popular songs (the ly rich harmonic and rhyth theme from Mr. Rogers) to Get an early start! mic sound, armed only inspirational originals (A with judiciously used mi Mile In My Shoes ), Broad crophones. way favourites (My HOBBY ARTS There is something par Favourite Things) or a Fall Fair 2000 ticularly inspiring about Miles Davis tune, it be Adults • Teens • Kids hearing and seeing so came obvious they can do much pouring out from the anything. Put your artistic talents to work and create a bare naked human voice The gift is in the integrity picture, painting, carving, sculpture or ?? ! ! (and yes, the Bare Naked of their original lyrics, so and enter it Ladies are among their phistication of the arrange at this year's ments, the richness of the sources of inspiration as a Fair. group), and seeing so harmonies, imm'aculate much talent so evenly dis timing and control of dy tributed and used to en- namics, the joy of the pres hance each other's entation and the sheer · For information on Hobby Arts rules, QUEEN VICTORIA-is out of mourning and ready to performance-the tri- inventiveness and vocal and the many categories to enter, refer to party! Cfeather McPherson, Vancouver comedian-a.k.a. umph of the group in har magic in the imaginary in page 27 in this year's "Love A Fair'' Entry Queen Victoria-will spend the day at Everlasting Summer's mony with the solo. strumentation. As they Catalogue published by the Barnacle. Garden Faire & Music Fest, m.c.-ing the event and chatting From the first number, it mimed their air guitars, · to the visitors. She will award a prize for the best garden was clear these were no or bass, keyboard, drums or All entry forms must be submitted by party hat. Th e Garden Faire run s from · II a.m. to 5 p.m., · horn, it was hard to believe Sunday Aug. 27 at Everlasting Summer, 194 McLennan dinary musicians. Visually Saturday, September 9, 2000. · Drive. Parking is on McLennan Drive or on site for those with stunning in black and red, there weren't five more NO LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED difficulty walking. stripes and velvet, they guys somewhere. took an Elizabethan ballad, see MPAC T p31 'the :Un.:r:n.-.eie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 2• ------+---,--- ~- -~~------::~-e_n_te_r_ta_inm__ e_n_t ~ _a_n_d_t_h_e_a_r_ts--'--, Square dancers descend on Island for ~ weekend fest If you've ever wondered what more ·square- and round evening's big Dance. At least 12 Spring's own Alan Mob; rg. dancing or just looking to spend moves (apparently) sane and dancers at Swing'n'Wheel 2000, squares of dancers will be step Everyone is invited for breakfast ~ couple of hours with some sensible adults to don colourful a camp-in and dance event at ping in time to a panel of callers at $4 per person and public ad great folks having a whole lot of costume~ and practice their alle ~ the Farmers Institute on Rain from all over Vancouver Island. mission to the Gospel Sing is by fun, please come out and join us. maride lefts and do-si-dos, the bow Road. Sunday morning the dancers cash donation for the local Food For times and more details weekend of August 25 to 27 is Programmed events include a will be enjoying a pancake Bank. please call Angela at 653-9346 your chance to find out. Trail-in Dance Friday evening, a breakfast prepared by the Salt Spectators are welcome at the or Margaret at 537-98,48 or The Salty Wheels Square Round Dance workshop on Sat Spring Lions Club and an hour Saturday events, so if you're cu check bulletin boards around Dance Club is hosting 100 or urday afternoon and Saturday of Gospel Music featuring Salt rious about square- and round- Ganges. ·- --- - ~------~------School District #64 (Gulf Islands ------· SSI BUSSING SCHEDULE 2000/2001 Fernwood Elementary School Start Time 8:40 am - End time 2:40pm "" BUS BUS # 5 route change - Broadweii/Channel Ridge BUS #4 Walker Hook/Stark R Lv from SIMS 8:06AM #5 Ves./Broadwell Mobrae 1/Woodland 7:53 AM Channel Ridge/Sunse 8:05 AM Suffolk Rd . 8:13 AM Sunset/North End Mobrae 2 7:55AM West Eag le Drive 8:12 AM Stark/Walker Hk 8:16AM Stonecutter 7:57AM Southy Point 8:14AM Grantville Rd . 8:20AM Chu-Ann 7:59AM Epron Road 8:23AM Maliview Rd 8:24AM Broadwellffeal 8:02AM Fernwood School 8:26AM Fernwood School 8:27AM Broadweii/Channel Ridge 8:04AM Fulford Elementary School Start Time 8:40 am - End time 2:40pm #1 Fulford/Ganges Hwy Leaving from SSE 7:55AM #2 Isabella Pt Rd. H0lmes Rd . 7:50AM #2 Beaver Point Forest Ridge Rd. 8:18AM Blackburn Rd. 8:02AM Roland Rd. 7:53AM Bullman Rd . 8:26AM Top of Lees hill 8:08AM Musgrave Rd . 7:56AM Reynolds Rd . 8:29AM Fulford school 8:19AM Fulford School 8:04AM Fulford School 8:35AM Salt Spring Elementary School Start Time 8:30am, - End time 2:30pm #3 Old Divide Rd. Old Divide/Cranberry 7:46AM #6 Long Harbour/Eaglerid Old Scott Rd 7:46AM j!ulford/Ganges. Hwy Garner Rd. 7:55AM Mansell/leisure Lane Quebec/Eagleridge 7:51AM Cusheon/Beddis Rds Cusheon Lake Rd. 7:59AM Thomas- Rd. 8:02AM Stewart Rd. 8:02AM Leisure Lane 8:07AM Samuel Cr 8:06AM SSE School 8:17AM SSE School 8:20AM / Saltspring Island Middle School - Start Time 8:30am- End time 2:30pm #3 Old Divide Rd . Old Divide/Cranberry 7:46AM #6 Long Harbour/Eaglerid L.H. Ferry Terminal 7:48AM #7 Beaver Point Rd. Forest Ridge Rd . 7:45AM Fu lford/Ganges Hwy Garner Rd . 7:55AM Mansell/leisure Lane Quebec/Eagleridge 7:51AM - Reynolds Rd . 7:53AM Cusheon/Beddis Rds Cusheon Lake Rd . 7:59AM Thomas Rd. 8:02AM Top of Lees Hill 8:06AM Stewart Rd . 8:02AM Leisure Lane 8:07AM SIMS 8:20AM Samuel Cr 8:06AM SIMS 8:13AM ' - SSE School 8:20AM #4 Walker Hook/Stark R Stark I Acheson 7: 38AM #8 Ves/Sunset!North end Epron Rd . 7:40AM ' Maliview Rd. 7:48AM Ves/Sunset Rds. 7:58AM Whims Rd . 7:53AM Stonecutter Rd . 8:02AM Central 7:58AM SIMS 8:1 5AM SIMS 8:05AM / Gulf Island Senior Secondary School _Start Time 9:15am- End time 3:30pm #1 Beaver Point Rd. Forest Ridge Rd. 8:35AM #2 Isabella Pt Rd . Mountain Rd . 8:45AM #3 Old Divide Rd . Old Divide/ Cranbe 8:34AM Reynolds Rd. 8:43AM Isabella Rd . stop sign 8:49AM Cusheon/Beddis Rds. Stewart Rd. 8:42AM Burgoyne Triangle 8:53AM Garner Rd. 8:57AM Samuel Cr 8:47AM GISS 9:05AM GISS 9:10AM GISS 9:02AM ~ #4 Walker Hook/Stark R Fernwood School 8:37AM #5 Sunset/North End . Ves/Sunset Rds. 8:37AM #6 Lo,ng Harbour . L.H. Ferry Terminal 8:42AM Fort I Grantville Rd 8:46AM Southy Point Rd. 8:49AM Manseii/Leisure Lane Cedar & Mansell 8:52AM -I GISS 9:00AM Epron Rd. 8:56AM Leisure Lane 8:55AM I #8 Vesuvius Loop Broadwell 8:39AM GISS 9:10AM GISS 9:00AM I I I Stonecutter Rd . 8:43AM - - - I· I GISS . 8:54AM I ------I ' I I I ·--~------ii..--- · - -· --- · --- · ------· ------~---~--.------. -- ·· -~·---· 88 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • "the Hn-:r:n.n,cie living; ell, well The Barnacle ------Really 324 Lower Ganges Road Big island calls with Ph. 537-4040 Fax 537-8829 Delivers! email: [email protected] slower, quieter pace by Gail Trafford SCHOOL DISTRICT #64 Long time Salt Spring (Gulf Islands) residents Tom and Dorothy Hamer are setting sail for retirement life in Saltaire near Ladysmith. The Hamers have made consid erable contributions to the Salt Spring Community and they will be missed. ABC Ferry deck hand for • GULF ISLANDS SECONDARY SCHOOL 32 years , Tom most recent 537-9944 ly 'sailed on the Skeena School wi ll reopen August 28 to Setpember 1, 9:00a.m. to 3:00p.m. for registration of new Queen out of Fulford Har students. Pick up of Student Schedul e Packages and collection of Student Fees will take place bour. From1972 to1990, he on Thursday, August 31 and Friday, September I from 9:00a.m. to 2:30p.m. OPENING DAY was a member of the ONLY, Tuesday, September 5 wi ll be early di smissal (9:15a.m. to 12:30 p.m.). Ganges VoluJ!teer Fire Principal: Ms. Nancy Macdonald. Department, much of the time serving as Lieutenant • SALT SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and for his last two years, 537-9928 Captain. He was on hand to School will be open week of August 28 to September 1, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for registra fight major fires at both the tion of new students. OPENING DAY ONLY, Tuesday, September 5 will be early dismissal (8:30 a. m. to lO:OO a.m.) Harbour House and the Vesuvius hotels. He has lots KINDERGARTEN of memories from those STUDENTS DO NOT ATTEND OPENING DAY. Parents of Kindergarten students will be days, both good and bad contacted by their teacher the week of September_5. Principal: Mr. Robert Brownsword Brinkworthy Place is also ship-shape thanks to Tom's 7 ~WorkStation ~ Ron . Need WeisnerBAsc 5ale5 • Service • Tutoring a Painter? ./Computers ./Cash Registers Call ./FAX Machines f!:! Unicorn ./Photocopiers .; ,. ~. ~····Painting (250) 537-5058 ; 1 537·2732 [email protected] ~ Cell: 537·6204 EDEN LODGE WORK CREW-Close to 30 teens dug, mowed, washed, chopped and weeded during a community volunteer week hosted Retirement Home by Salt Spring Baptist Church. Guests from South Delta Baptist church in Tsawwassan camped in the church yard for a holiday that • An all inclusive, secure hqme included lots of fun and food. One young visitor asserted that you couldn 't pay him to miss it. The party lasts until August 24. environment Watch for cheerful working teens out and about during the week. • Owned & operated by a registered geriatric nurse (B.A., BScN, RN( • Qualified staff on site 24 hours per day . August is· maintenance time Your hosts Bill & Vicki Clark lll Lautman Drive, Salt Spring Island, B.C. Canada V8K 2C2 ~ , •11 _ /~A .J ,._ throw them in the compost. Also I J11 11 Phone/Fax: (zso) 537-4033 """V"' """"' ~ r w-.r~ • . . clean any debris that may be lying ~~~~•11 Jet I1A_ _ •- around on the soil surface such as -w~ ~ dead veggie leaves or stalks. If these dry days continue be sure Enjoy Reading the Barnacle? The month of didn't have that to go on about, then to irrigate on a regular basis. Water August is just fly we wouldn't have reason to complain. ing in the morning is better for your Voluntary subscriptions are a way in which readers can show ing by and before you know it the After all, aren't we living in one of garden since it will give things a their appreciation and support by helping us with the cost of days are going to be that much short the best places? chance to dry out in the day, not giv publishing. If you would like to purchase a voluntary sub er. It always amazes me how fast our Although it won't be long before ing any molds or mildews a chance to scription, please drop by, or send your cheque for best months go by. September is here, there are still a set in. On-Island Voluntary Subscription $39.00 yr. Although our spring was nothing to few things to do around the garden. By mid-August I'm one to stop --.. brag about, the summer hasn't been Keep your summer perennials look or $79.00 yr./within Canada Thank you feeding my broadleaf evergreens, all that bad has it? Most of July's rain ing great by removing spent flowers and other marginals. It's time for fall fell in the last couple of days, and as soon as they have finished bloom them to slow down on growth before · u~!J!~Ie . :~~:~ August has had no precipitation ing. August is also the month to plant the colder weather hits us . It's usual Ph: 250-537-4040; Fax: 250-537-8829 whatsoever up until this write-up, your winter veggies, and for the best ly the new tender growth that gets 324 Lower Ganges Rd Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2V3 which is happening on August 16. I tasting summer squashes, pick them zapped if an early cold snap should have seen a lot warmer days in past while they are still young and tender. hit. Once spring rolls around then it's summers, but I'm not complaining. If you want a healthier vegetable time to restart your fertilizing rou A lot of gardeners love to complain garden, pull out any plants that have tine. about our weather, but face it: if we done their thing, chop them up and Have fun . CENTRAL VACUUMS • Sales • Installation • Service Guaranteed for as long (250) 748-4115 Good Selection of Used Vacuums Co,.; nf~nef Cofe LouncJ.. Sof u...-d oy1 Sepfetrtbe..- 2 - 11-3 of fhe Co~e Jnn 1 134 ·MePhillip$; Aveo For info call 537-9932 24 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • "the :Ua,:r:n.a.cl.e living ell, · well "Let us get up close ------and personal with your engine." Congratulati,,,.J,"'-.. ·''L>' yournewb Volunteer labour as well as donations of landscaping materials are still needed to complete the Salt .Spring Island Cooperative Preschool Preschool nearing completion Is your air cond· · With the start of the school year just Ditlof, who helped spearhead the who came forth to finance the pur ready for the around the corner, parents at the Salt building campaign. "There has been chase with a long-term low-interest Spring Island Cooperative Preschool so much volunteer effort from the mortgage. The property is located in are looking for volunteers in the com parents and community in realizing Ganges at 110 Aldous Road, behind munity to help complete the building the dream to build a permanent home the elementary school. of their new preschool. for a co-operative preschool on Salt The preschool is held close to the Parents and community volunteers Spring Island. I am in awe of the way hearts of many Island families who have been busy all summer on the Salt Spring Islanders can pull togeth have benefited from the their partici project, but they need more help in er and have projects like this succeed. pation in the school over the years. their final push to get the building It's such an amazing community. " "We were, involved with the cooper ready for the 3.: and 4-year-old chil The building project began three ative for four years," said preschool dren who will be attending this fall. years ago when the preschool, which alumnus Susan Garside. "During "We need help with painting, car has been operating on Salt Spring for those years my husband, both our p~ntry, siding and many odd jobs. 25 years, began looking for a new lo We:re looking for people who would cation after their lease at the Commu children, and I found invaluable fami be willing to come out to a work party, nity Centre eli.1Jired. Parents at the ly support, community commitment or take on a task and work whenever school undertook the daunting· task of and ultimately, the most nurturing, it's convenient for them," said build raising $60,000 for the building project safe and holistic learning environment ing committee member Jerry Fitz and with the generous support of the for our two children." WE HAVE All THE EQUIPMENT TO KEEP YOUR AUTO AIR patrick. "Donations of plants, trees, community, they achieved their goal. To find out more about the building CONDiTIONING RUNNING AT PEAK PERFORMANCE. sand and other landscaping materials The preschool society was then able project or to make a donation, call are also needed." to purchase a· piece of property from Sandra Ditlof at 537-5769. To volun 1)..04- (/l..W~ 115 Des,:.ond Cres., Ganges "This is an inspiring project," said the Gulf Island's School 'District #64 teer your time or abilities, call Jerry l:elLISieN 537-2513 building committee member Sandra with the help of an anonymous donor Fitzpatrick at 537-1182. Cats of the Week I'm Zorro and I'm big, black and ut terly adorable. I love to cuddle and be brushed and I Waste & Recycling walk quite nicely when wearing a Tuesday thru saturday, blue halter and 8 am . 5 pm Next to Ganges leash. Of course, I Village Market have been neutered. Waste & Recycling Pick-up service My name is Blackjack and I'm about 5 years old. I have Large clean-ups been neutered which makes me a laid & recycling back kinda guy. service Please call the SPCA at 537·2123 or come to the open house every Saturday from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Jln Isfan£fami[y s~rving The .adoption fee of $60 for a mole and $70 for a female covers CALL 653-9279. cell. 537-7904 Isfanaers since 1861 the cost of spaying or neutering and a voccino~on. -t;b.e :u--:riii.--cie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 2~ ~"ORh~ .{ r.p;..: ; · · ~-- ~ liYin2; well ~ I JL ~ ~~-' ; cr-~~ GRAVB. SALES 1 Summertime is for parties 1730A Fu lfo rd-Ganges Rd. Owner: jason Fraser ~SaN ... Mon.-Fri. 8: 00am-4:30pm -w:..a.A~F~ Products available Rate per yard PIT It's one of those lazy, lets of the hosts. RUN 5.25 crazy, hazy days of Musical entertainment was impromptu 3/4 ROAD summer, and long-time resident Bill with COs, or in some cases such as last MULCH 7.25 11/2 DRAIN Webster is reminiscing about Island life week, there was a piano, sax and guitar in and customs, then and now. ROCK unwashed 13.00 perfect harmony! Be a part of a OVERSIZED "During July and August we Islanders "These parties went on usually until Special Salute to ROCK unwashed 12.00 pretty well gave up our beautiful piece of about 2 a.m., or until everyone was real estate to the tourists," he said. pooped," says Bill nostagically, noting that Fill 3.00 They settled instead for working in the they are still an important part of summer FAIR DAYS Prices In effect 'til August 2000 garden and around home and held week life on the Island. •Other products also available ly barbeques for their friends and neigh New season starts September 5th • 12 yard trucks can be arranged bours. Each week the party was held at a Our next column, in two weeks (the 2000 •Minimum $10 charge A photo journal of this ye ar's •PST & GST extra ·different location. Featured were ham September 5 edition of the Barnacle) will Fall Fair (including n ames of 5'57·7797 burgers, salmon and other meats, while start our second year of this missive. t rophy winner:-s) to be published the ladies brought salads and des"S erts and Things will be operating again at Seniors September 19th other treats . - Beer flowed like wine. Services and we hope to have many new with the Barnacle. NEED HELP! Since everyone brought their own edi items as the season progresses. .. . with your advertising bles, there was no great strain on the wal- Have safe and happy holidays .. . To advertise in this special issue, needs? call the Barnacle at Talk to Greg, Christina 537-4040 or Jeff at "537-4040 T~ f~ &). ~t f~ ... ~u~!dl!~Ie -w~ :tk 5J;t ~ 324 Lower-Ganges Road Lod.Ak~~ Dear Nervous, We can't go to the dog, since our ca- . nine reporter, alias: Gromit, is on bury duty, so we'll give this a shake. We sus pect that these invisible leashes were bought at the same Invisible Store Dear Thinkers, where folks buy their invisible dog li Why is it we have: delightfully dug ditch censes, their invisible Handicap identi es, marvelously mown margins, superbly fication car placards, their invisible swept sides, but deforming, dangerous de building permits and print their invisi pressions (apart from purely punctuational ble letters to this column. Unfortunat~ pot holes) and really rough riding roads at ly, the problems this can cause are strategic spots? And just who is JJM any very visible. Aggressive. behaviour is f)~ way? part of a dog's survival system that CALL US FIRST AT FARMS Just Jolted, Too Twisted and Lane says "act now" in the face of any per THE Lashed 289 Rainbow Road REYNOtD~ ceived threat. A dog on a leash tells Open 9:30-5:30 Mon.-Fri. TRAVEL SHOP CARPET & UPHOLSTERY 537 -9911 others who share the space, that this CUT FLOWERS CLEANING Dear JJTTLL, animal is in someone's control and all M-F 9-4:30; SAT 9-2 So you think you are a smart buns CUSTOM CUT is right with the world. But just in 653-4201 writer just because you have a pen case, we also say, walk on the grass BOUQUETS chant for a little alliterlliteration? 537-8168 pager and carry a big stick. GREAT SELECTION We're not sure, but after editing your letter we guess you are asking "who is Dear Slackers, responsible f or fixing big potholes?" I'm excited about the new entry in the The late-breaking news is that potholes Fall Fair - the zucchini races!! The F.F. are not illegal on Salt Spring; in fact Guide mentions axels and wheels but not some people have even adopted their ~R.A.M. anything about motors, so how are these ' I APPUANCE CEN1KE favourite pothole and are upset when veggies going to really GO? the ducks take it over in the rainy sea Soles. Service. Ports lnew I used) Konfused Kid We service what we sell son. They like the f(lct that these glori fied indents slow down the local traffic 2943 Soys Rood Duncan Dear Big Kid, 748·4368 and keeps "lookieloos" away. Perhaps Does 'this island know how to have the real problem is too many pothills in fun or what! -the zucchini 5001 Warn the vicinity of a demure little pothole? the ferries 'cause here come the specta Philosophizing aside, JJM stands for]. tors for that one! There is a co-ordina Miller Maintenance (rumour - these tor listed at 653-4744 who may be able are two brothers), with a branch in ~WorkStationE ~- to answer your "motor question", be SALE Victoria -and the parent company in cause, quite frankly, we are konfused Ron Delta, B.C. (Hmmm ... isn't a delta a tri *3 pc sectional-couch &chair, foot stool too. We suspect that the entrants will $200 obo angle of land in the middle of a really · ' Husqvarna chain saw 36 16 " bar $180 WeisnersAsc line up on a well chosen pothill and let *15 speed Game Fisher electric mower Sales • Service • Tutoring Big water-filled pothole?) $40 gravity do its thang. *8&0 hedge trimmer $15 .!Computers Dear S.S. Local Advicesors, *Valor kerosene heater $15 .!Cash Registers 0 Please make yo ur letters VISIBLE if *Double bed with headboard, Oualofil Since you seem to be going to the dogs .!FAX Machines yo u have a peeve, concern, comment, or Interior/Exterior Carpentry, duvet, skirt, bedding $1 00 obo · lately, I wondered if you could explain a Painting, Cabinetry & more. *Flat mirror 36x24 510 .!Photocopiers question for the Advicesory Committee's Renovations • Decks• Additions *40" dining table with leaf, 4 chairs, worrisome observation I've made while dark wood $150 (250) 537-5058 enjoying our public parks; many of the considered response! please send to: Call Charles at 537-21 27 *Singer sewing machine in walnut cabinet $50 [email protected] dogs seem to be on an invisible leash even SSLAC c/o the Barnacle, 324 Lower 537-5153. though there are clear signs posted to the Ganges Road, OR email barnacle@salt contrary. sprin g.com 0 be sure to put "attention a Mutt Nervous SSLAC" in the subject line. ' 26 TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • t;he :Uo,:rn.o,ci e 110•DEATHS 140 • COMING EVENTS 140 • COMING EVENTS 170 • NOTICES • BUSINESS WALDORF KINDERGARTEN WIGEN offered for 3-6 yr olds. Bread ATTENTION: Sydney Oscar baking, gardening, hikes, nature art & crafts, seasonal All 1999 Fall Fair 110 • DEATHS Syd died August 20, 2000 at stories, circles free play. A Trophy Winners: PERRY - HECTOR Duncan, 2: 30 am in Lady Minto Child's Garden 538-0246.34oo It's time to turn in your died August 1 3, 2000 peace Hospital after a long struggle SALT SPRING OLDBOYS. trophies for the upcoming fully at horne on Salt Spring with Parkinson 's disease . "An Island Tradition." Mens Fall Fair 2000 Island at the age of 80. He was Syd was born in Nelson soccer tryouts through August. Please return trophies born November 2, 1919 in If you are 33 or older and have Glasgow, Scotland. Hector first Hospital in 1923 ; grew up on by AUGUST 23rd a strawberry farm in the at least sorne experience. Why discovered Salt Spring Island not corne out for a run? to 351 Rainbow Road Kootenay's; graduated from by boat in the 1950's, in 1960 Sundays 11 :00 arn . Portlock. (caretaker's cottage, Fall Fair grounds) UBC with a civil engineer he purchased a 52 acre farm Chris Cottrell 537-2251. 35oo on North Beach Road and ing degree. He was a mem ., ~ !.. // If more convenient, 528 Computers commenced life as a "week ber of the A ssociation of HUICHOL ART exhibit and • • · you can drop your 530 Contractors ender" for 22 years. In 1982 he Professional Engineers and sale. Isabel jordan of Yelapa, ::;____;- trophy off at 533 Dental becarne a full time resident of the Canadian Institute of Mexico is presenting her col -.9- the '(ravel Shop or lection of spiritually inspired 100 Births 535 Designers the island. Hector was a Surveying. He served with the l!arnacle visionary art. join us at the 537 Drywall founding Director of the Salt the Canadian Hydrographic 110 Deaths ArtSpring Gallery, jackson 0 0 Thanks! Peggy Sidbeck Spring Island Foundation and Service from 1945 to 1984 120 In Memoriam 540 Education later happily installed toilet Avenue frorn 11 :00 a.m. to .. . 537-43/l and was head of Tide & 140 Coming Events 541 Electronic Repairs seats as part of the All Saints' 7:00 p.rn. Tuesday and i~ Trophy&: Ribbon Co-ordinator Current Survey for Pacific Wednesday, August 22 and 23. 145 Community Services 543 Equipment Rental by-the-Sea construction crew. ~ 170.33 Coast and Western Arctic for 545 Excavating Hector first heard the call of the 150 Meetings many years. Syd spent two YOU'RE WELCOME to display sea at age 16. He commenced your event posters and meet 160 Milestones 548 Finance/Mortgage years in Hawaii working for a distinguished maritime Ing notices for 2 weeks on the 170 Notices - Business 550 Garbage th e United Nations in tsuna DIG career, earning his Deep Sea Barnacle's Community Bulletin 180 Notices - Legal 555 Gardening/ Master's ticket and command mi warnings for the Pacific Board located in our office. COLOUR 190 Thanks Landscaping ing his first ship by the age of from 1975 to 1977. Drop off during office hours.tln 23. He served in the British 560 Health & Fitness Before his retirement in 50 PLUS BOWLERS annual PRINTS Merchant Navy and later in the (35mm colour machine prints) 563 Heating Royal Naval Reserve. He was 1984, he was the tsunami meeting at Kings Lanes 565 Machining/Welding seconded to the Royal advisor for Canada. In this Wednesday August 23 @ 11 5x7 ...... 99 rol e, he traveled to Rus sia, a.rn. Season starts Tuesday, tt' 570 Marine Canadian Naval Reserve and 8xl0 ...... China, Chile, the Phillipines, September 5. 3400 S .9 9 @ 573 Miscellaneous during his service he survived the torpedoing of his ship and Peru and Japan. 8x12 ...... 6.99 Services TANGO PARTY (Milonga) ~ a harrowing 16 days at sea in Syd was pre-deceased in Saturday, August 26th, 9 - 12. 575 Moving/Storage i~: an open lifeboat. Hector mar 1958 by his first wife $5 .00. Visitors welcome. ~" 578 Music ried joan Caveen Meredith of Barbara Frankham. He re Lions Hall Ga nges. Phone \j 580 Office Services Ottawa in 1943. Together Margie Korrison 537-2707 for @ they raised three children, Alan married in 1970 to Nancy 583 Painters information. 3400 M (Deborah), Susan jane and Lane (nee Howland). 585 Plumbing Sandra (Garry). joan prede Syd is survived by his loving TANGO WORKSHOPS Sept 20-23. Sr Miguel Pia returns i?}: 587 _ Pools/Spas ceased Hector in 1972. In wife Nancy; children: Ken ~=~ frorn Buenos Aires. Phone m 300 Antiques 590 Rentals 1946 Hector began a new Wigen, Brian and Becky ~;::: Margie Korrison @ 537-2707. 121 McPhillips Ave • 537-9917 ,:.:; 305 Appliances 595 Sewing career ashore with Canadian Wigen, Joanne and Ross Mon.·Sot. 9:30-5'30 M Stevedoring Company becom All levels. 3400 l{: 310 Building Supplies Neuman, _Don and Diana ·:::.~ ing eresident in the early Wigen, Carolyn and David GREEN PARTY all candidates E 315 Clothing 1970 s. Hector left his mark on Philip, Bill and Barb Lane, meeting for B.C. green party w 320 Computers the B.C. waterfront as a w Mike Lane, Doug and Sue leader. Aug 26th, 3 p.m. at 1j 325 Crafts Director of the B.C. Wharf the Green House, 136 Lower Lane, Mary and Patrick 335 Farm & Garden ' • 600 Acreage/lots Operator's Association, Ganges Road . 3400 Wilmott, Pete Wigen and y 620 Commercial Waterfront Foreman's ~6TRU6T Equipment ,f Association and Neptune Bulk seventeen grandchildren. SACRED MUSIC, SALT SPRING ISLAND 340 Firewood Properties Concert/ceremony with Barry LOCAL TRUST Terminals. He was also a Funeral Date: COMMITEE 0 345 Food Products 64() Houses for Sale Livingston & Laurent Boucher. T' AI CHI CH'UAN founding member of the B.C. Sat., August 26, 2000 650 Real Estate Wanted Maritime Employers Friday, August 25th. Lions Hall. - Beginners classes start 350 Free/Recyclables 2:00pm NOTICE OF 8 pm. Suggest donation $10. on Monday II th 355 Furniture Association and served as a BUSINESS director for 20 years and as Location: September. If you would 360 Garage Sales MEETING ' > Chairman for six. Following his Saint Mary's Church, like to begin study of e 365 'Health Products retirement frorn Canadian Fulford T'ai Chi or would like The Salt Spring Island Local 370 Miscellaneous Stevedoring, Hector served as Trust Committee will be n 700 Apartments for Rent Afterward: further information 375 Musical Instruments Chairman of the Vancouver please- phone Osman meeting to consider various 710 Commercial Rentals Port Corporation for six ·years Everyone is welcome to d 380 Pets/Livestock Phillips. 537-5667 matters of general business, 720 Holiday and was also on the boards of attend a gathering at Fulford such as applications received, 382 Photographic Equip. Community Hall, Fulford. Accommodation Ports Canada and Canada 140.3700 bylaw reviews and meeting .S 385 Sporting Goods 730 Houses for Rent Harbour Place. Hector was a IN LIEU OF FLOWERS: notes. 390 Wanted mernber of the Vancouver 740 Housesitting Donations accepted · 145 • COMMUNITY SERVICES Club, Ca nadian Legion Branch gratefully in Syd's name for: DATE: Wednesday d 750 Miscellaneous Rentals 92, The Association of Master n 760 Room & Board Mariners and West Vancouver The Salt Spring Conservancy August 23rd or Lady Minto Hospital. 770 Shared Yacht Club, (Commodore TIME: 1:30 p.m. e 1954). Hector is survived by 0 Accommodation his devoted wife june whorn he 120 •IN MEMORIAM PLACE: Hart Bradley 780 Storage married in 1973. Hector will Memorial Hall 790 Wanted to Rent also be missed by his chi ldren (Lions Club) r (mentioned previously) along HAYWARD'S' .. . your community with step-children Mark FUNERAL SERVICE 103 Bonnet Ave, (Suzie), john (Sheila), Barnaby foundation. Ganges (Doug) and grandchildren Help enhance the quality of Diane, joanne, Andrew, life in your Island community. The Public is invited to attend, and will be provided an Meredith, Christy, Marina, You can do this by contribut Mark, Spencer, Owen, and opportunity to speak to the 500 Accounting Cars/Trucks ing to our I your community Caitlin. A memorial service will Local Trust Committee on any 505 Appliance Repairs endowment fund. Even $10 Motorcycles be held Monday August 28th, matters of interest at the 510 Architects Recreational Vehicles 1:30 p.m. at Alf Saints' by-the PATRICK BEATIIE will help make a lasting conclusion of the regular 515 Auto Body & Painting Trailers Sea on Salt Spring Island. A Funeral Director difference. All contributions business meeting. Those who are pooled and preserved in 518 Beauty Vehicles Wanted reception will fonow at the wish to present a petition or family horne. In lieu of flowers 320 - #2 Upper Ganges Rd the endowment fund. The make a delegation to the 520 Caregivers donations are welcomed by Salt Spring Island wat:er<.p-l.ont interest earned on it is Committee must advise 522 Carpentry the Salt Spring Island Tel: (250) 537-1022 galler<;y distributed annually to a wide Islands Trust staff at least 524 Child Care Foundation - Hector Perry Trust Fax: (250) 537-2012 range of worthy island chari three weeks in advance of the 525 Cleaning Services - #2 - 110 Purvis Lane, Salt ~\rtff r 11N Ill ~ : fm 1 0 rml!<: table organizations. These meeting so that they can be Spring Island, V8K 2S5. 3400 vary from year to year as added to the beginning of the 140 • COMING EVENTS /lf:.aauin_r; community priorities chan ge. Agenda. For information about Further in-formation, includ the agenda, please call the CLASSIFIED LINER RATES 50T H BIRTHDAY Party. Islands Trust at 537-9144. ing latest annual report, is We're turning 50 this year and First two words BOLD & CAPITALIZED. Taxes extra. " Regular Ads": DISPLAY freely available upon requ es t, planning a JOint celebration. !h~ 190•THANKS First 20 words: $6.75, each additional word 25¢. " Hold the Press": Everyone born in '1950' please & without obligation. Fim 20 words $8.75, each additional word 30¢. YOUR contact 538-0004. 34oo GARY CHERNEFF Phone 537-2501 TO ALL M ERCHANTS who participate in the Welcome CLASSIFIED DISPLAY RATES DIVINING THE Goddess. G Wagon program: Thank you $9.75 per column inch, based on 6 columns per page, 9picas 6pts width Sailing & exploration for for your most generous gifts NOTICES Wornen. August 25 - 27. A 170 • NOTICES· BUSINESS and warrn welcoming to Salt ( 1-1/2"). Includes your logo. $1.00 extra for regular line border. $3.00 sumptuous celebration of YlrMJmaw Spring. We will be sure to extra for designer borde!. DISCOUNTS for display classified: I 0% off and posters fo r feminine energy. $165 (slid remember you in our future ing). Friday evening free . SAYER with SIGNS for 4 week run; IS% off for I 0 week run; 20% off for 16 week run. upcoming events on & ventures here in Salt Spring. Includes accommodation & Handcrafted Wood BARBARA HICKS Thank you also Marlie for tak Errors or Omissions: Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be sail. Call Alandra & Shannon Residential & Commercial the Barnacle's gian t ing the time to introduce us to withdrawn at any time. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in 537-4819. 3400 Installation the event of typographical error, that portion of the advertising space bulletin board. Drop NEW HOURS: these businesses. Bruce & occupied by the erroneous item, together with reasonable allowance for SPCA GOODS & Services Mon.-Sat. 10-5 Appointment . Frankie Watkins. 34oo signature, will not be charged for but the balance of the advertisement Auction will be on Satu rday, off during office hou rs Sundays 11-4 (~SO) 537-98'47 will be paid for at the applicable rate. No liability for ad omission. We October 14th. For more info The Classifieds 537-4525 reserve the right to reject any advertisement. or use our mail slot call Cathie at 537-1414. 3aoo 170.3400 continue on Page 28 ... -the :n-.:riJL-.cl.e • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 27 Clnssifieds------ 190•THANKS 320 • COMPUTERS 370 • MISCELLANEOUS 370 • MISCELLANEOUS 370 • MISCELLANEOUS TO EACH imd everyo ne who COMPUTER PROBLEMS? COPIES MADE from large 19" SONY ,T.V., excellent he lped make the pie stall a Set-ups, In sta ll ing Software, originals of house plans, su r condition, $150. Small wal success. Thank you from the Tutori ng, Internet. Your place veys, posters, family trees, etc. nut desk, 3 drawers, $100. Fulford Pie Lady, Mona. 34oo or ours. Yes, we make house up to 24" x 48". 537-4290 .ttn Phone 538-1937. 34llo 305 • APPLIANCES rHE RARE fiND 420 • WORK WANTED calls days/evenings/weekends. SECONDHAND EAT, DRINK and MOVING SALE. Couch & WORLD FAMOUS on Salt DRYER CLEAN & check over. $25/hr. 18 years experience. Brook's Books & Tunes Phone Robert, 537-2888 http:/ /cetsi.net/BeMerry. ttn chair $200. Chain saw $180. Spring for excellent renova $39 Sam Anderson. Anderson Double bed with headboard Arvana Consulting. 4Boo NEW CANQE fo r sale, 16' tions. Call now for estimates Appliance Service. 537-5268. & bedding $1 00. 40" dining WANTED on your summer projects. Cedar Canvas. Built for west table with 4 chairs $150. 537- coast travel. 68 lb . paddles, TO BUY! Peter Blackmore 537-4382, 5153, 6-8 p.m. 34oo 537-8085. tfn 210 • CAREGIVERS cargo boxes, also yokes. Can ''Wooden Boat Building" ~R.A.M. ~WorkStationE ~- be carried by one person. Last FOR SALE certified Osburn I APPLIANCE CENTRE JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER Ron of. the line . . Bob Ball. 537- fireplace insert. Excellent con RECENTLY IN available for work. Additions, Sales • Service• Parts I new/ v>e 420 • WORK WANTED 440 • HELP WANTED 525 • CLEANING SERVICES 578 • MUSIC APPLEFORD 'S HOME Open 10-6 HEMP/ Improvements - interior/exte 551 Employment Fulford Wharf ORGANIC rior- carpentry, painting, cab Services inetry & more. Renova tions, Allowed Sound COTTON decks, additions. Call Charles Are you unemployed ond need 537-2127. Quality wo rkman help with your job search? Are Studio CLOTHING ship, excellent references. 3soo you thinking about retraining? MUSIC NEED SOME time for your If you are receiving Employment self? Respite caregiver, specia l Insurance Benefits (or have LESSONS needs, seniors & child r ~n. received these benefits within the Qualified 15 yrs. exp. First last 3 yea rs) we have a variety of KEN HAMM aid, driving licence, excellent programs to assist you. CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING , Blues & Slide Guhm• references. Amanda 537 - Counsellor comes to SSI once a 2349. 3400 week and services are free. BARRY LIVINGSTON NATURAL BODY CARE PRODUCTS GULF ISLAND Gardening & 653-4201 l"inno & Jazz Please call Marta 537·8168 pager Painting. Landscaping, lawn at 1·888·993·2299 Coaching, Composition, maintenance, cleanups, haul Music & genuine open and constructively ing; re sidential painting. 525.aetfn Spirituality/Healing smiles and critical approach is the call. Reliable & competent, reason SALT SPRING ISLAN D .,4• ;.., able rate s. Call Phil at 653- COMMUNITY t" ';~, RAMESH MEYERS encouraging Harmony requires flexibility 0066. 3400 Culf Island statements as opposed to pushing SERVICES ~;ui•m·. nus.... ~~ Com position, s e r v e . fixed attitudes. OUTER ISLAND CRISIS Imagine that 440 • HELP WANTED WINDOW Arrangement, Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20) Sagittarius (Nov 21 • Dec WORKER/FAMILY others somehow know RELIABLE, PERMANENT Recording Production You are beginning to take 20) Making new inroads ADVANCEMENT CLEANERS Coaching whether you are sincere or part-time clerk for small retail WORKER your self and the world and laying new foundations store starting in September. Complete Janitor Service not. Happiness begins and in your public and profes Galiano Island Residency much more seriously now. Training provided. Mus.t be 537-2294 ends in the heart. sional life is now in focus. available occasional Saturdays. Required Maintaining a clear focus is email: Leo (Jul 22 - Aug 22) To this end take a methodi Reply to Departm ent 31 c/o Term Position: [email protected] the major challenge. Many Barnacle, 324 Lower Ganges September 18, 2000 to objectives and interests Amb itions to bring more cal approach and be ever Steam Extraction 578.3400 harmony to your life contin Rd. , Salt Spring Island, B.C. June 30, 2001 - are drawing yo(Jr attention . willing to negotiate ·new V8K 2V3. 3SOO The Outer Island Crisis ue. To this end you know deals. Remember that . 590 • RENTALS It is time to deciding which Worker position provides · Carpet- Guard· that you must be disci SALTSPRING SOAPWORKS ones are mere distractions compromise is not negoti requires a manager for our community development PARTY TIME Rentals We rent plined. Th is means being ation. It takes strength of and crisis-referral servic dishes, glasswa re, cutlery, and which ones are worth downtown store. Retail expe true to what you feel as es to residents of Galiano linen, tables, chai rs, assorted while. Beyond your own character and awareness ri ence helpful but will train 521.dn much as being organized. Island . As the Family party supplies. Tel/Fax 537- needs, some key relation to strike win/win deals. successful applicant. Call 4577 and phone 537-0909. Amber 537-2811. 3soo Advancement Worker you ship involvements are The fear, lack of awareness Pushiness will backfire wi ll provide prevention 540 • EDUCATION Inquiries, pick-ups and drop and resistance of others now. Direct your energies _cJ_ffs at Love My Kitchen. pushing you to make some SSI REFUND Centre has part services, individual coun un SYLVAN LEARNING Centre conscious changes. Write can sway us into compro toward working towards time opening for a strong, selling to youth and now on Salt Spring Saturdays. neat, punctual insect lover. 595•SEWING a pro and con list! mising our true hearts what is truly fair. adults, and family coun Build Self-esteem. • Boost desire: It takes discipline Please bring resume in person selling. Close liaison with Grades. Programm es in Math, ELEGANT CARING personal Taurus (Apr 21 - May 20), Capricorn (Dec 21 • Jan to 370 Lower Ganges Road. to know what that is. Yet, the elementary school, Reading, Writing, Beginning ized approach to alterations . Romantic considerations 19) Educational interests and sewing needs. the effort requ ired involves PART TIME babysitter need professionals, and com Reading, Study Ski ll s and are moving you to dream and pursuits are important ed starting Sept for three chi l Homework Support. Call for Consideration to changes in simply being receptive. munity representatives is lifestyle, aging and health . about the possibilities. to you now. Public speak dren aged 9,6, & 3. Days & an integral aspect of this information (250) 746-0222 . Journal or keep notes. Margie Kornson, Vesuvius Bay. These dreams may be with ing might have special hours needed per month job. Supporting clientele 537-2707. 3400 Virgo (Aug 22 - Sep 23) appeal. Working with and would be 10 a.m.s.(7:30 - 575 • MOVING I STORAGE another person and or by maintaining confiden Pioneering efforts to break gaining inspiration and 2:00) & 10 p.ms (1:00 - 5:00) tiality and prese rving pro linked to larger scale inter new ground are calling you for a 10 on 5 off rotation, fessional and personal SALT SPRING ests that have long been support from group excluding weekends & holi boundaries is essential brewing in your mind. out. Your challenge processes is key. You are days. Would prefer my home when working and living includes knowing what you on the verge of some but wi lling to go to yours if Clarify what you want with in this small comm·unity. MINI STORAGE want and this involves earned recognition., Still , you can p/up & drop off at as much vividness and SSE School. Must be patient, A Bachelors Degree in • Private rooms 600 • ACREAGE/LOTS color as you can . Focus ori expanding your habitual you are wise to share the counselling, and/or human self-concept. Some fairly limelight and recognizing caring, & fun. References are • Sizes to suit your needs TRIPP ROAD on St Mary keeping the romance but services plus three years large changes in your life required . Rate negotiable. Lake, 5.88 acres - 250 It lake curb the dream with a the· efforts of all involved Please call 537-9867. 3400 of related work experience • Clean, safe and secure front. Meadow and wooded healthy measure of real are looming. Whether you whether they are present or is required. areas. $260,000 Canadian. HASTINGS HOUSE is looking ism. Dreams move closer know it or not you have not. Work humbly and dili to fill the following position: 14 Hours per week; 537-5888 53 7-2226. 3400 been working unconscious gently now. $15.96 per hour. This is a to reality when they Full Time Gardener. 347 Upper Ganges Road SOUTH SALT Spring, 2.96 ly to break through any Union position . become intentions backed Aquarius (Jan 20 • Feb Applicants should be experi tranquil acres . Mature trees, fears that might block you . enced in all aspects of garden Closing date September 750tfn by action. 19) A process of purifica potential views. $105,000. Be willing to wear different ing with an emphasis on cut 5, 2000 at 4:00p.m. Firm. 403-254-0278. 3soo Gemini (May 21 - Jun 20) tion and refinement is now hats until you find one or flowers, vegetables and herbs, Please submit applications With Saturn in your sign upon you. Look to your lawn maintenance, pruning two that fit. including resume and cover 640 • HOUSES FOR SALE now the leader in you is physical, mental end emo and general repairs and main Libra (Sep 23 • Oct 21) tenance. 3400 letter to: RARE 22 ACRE oceanfront awakening. Demonstrate tional needs. Seek guid Paul Gregory, Director of post-and-beam home, creek, Th e fight without is call ing ance and inspiration from FULL TIME grounds person: your executive abilities by Adult Counselling Services, pond, forest, pastures, 475' clarifying your current you to go within . The time others who have been a general knowledge of lowbank beach . Interactive Salt Spring Island 578• MUSIC objectives and following has come to entertain the there and who really care. repairs and maintenance is a Community Services Society, webs ite: www.saltspring must. This position requi res a prospect of obtaining more See your actions as sym 268 Fulford Ganges Rd. , Salt PAUL VERVILLE is now dreamhome.com. 1soo through until every one is self-motivated and person accepting piano and theory met. Much of your focus knowledge. Sometimes we bolically connected to a able individual who is wi lling Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2K6. SMALLER 2 BEDROOM students for Fall 2000. will be upon the home front must consult our higher whole new foundation to take on a variety of tasks ~ No telephone calls or taxes home on 1/ 3 acre in Ganges, Lim ited space available. Call mind before we are ready around your life style. Please send resum e including please. 537-2937, leave message.36oo newly renovated with mature and upon finances. You references to: Hasting s landscape and pond are also in a playful mood. to engage the lower linear Emotional health may be House, 160 Upper Ganges $139,900. 538-0083 . 3400 The best executives enjoy faculties. This is one of your priority, but they are all Rd ., Salt Sp ring Island, B-.C. long lunches, get in some those times. Examine your linked. Intend to clear and V8K 2S2. 34oo MUSIC 5.1 ACRES exercise at some point in options, narrow your pref cleanse. the day and enjoy a healthy erences then give yourself Pisces (Feb 19 • Mar 20) SOUTH FACING some time to reflect. 522 • CARPENTRY LESSONS Fenced, 3-4 social life. Do you know Tending to the quality of ACCOUNTING Making the choice is espe FOR bedrooms, 2 why? They know how to your relationships is a main OFFICE GUITAR, PIANO, bathrooms , delegate responsibility. cially easy when you give it focus now. You are deter ASSISTANT SAX, FLUTE, VIOLIN. fa m i I y Cancer (Jun 21 - Jul 21) up to your higher mind . mined to really come from TRUMPET, TROMBONE. kitchen, On one hand you feel more Scorpio (Oct 22 - Nov 20) your heart. All efforts to Part time and/or full time Learning about your self by assistant required for CLARINET, CELLO, large deck. ambitious and together constructively work on pat very busy, (and growing) VOICE , DRUMS, Wood floors. than usual. On the other, way of association with oth terns that block harmony accounting office. BASS, BANJO. Fren c h many questions are linger ers is a central theme now. will bear fruit. You are The position requires doors . Separate 16x12 ing in your mind as to the Involved is a process of learning that rue power strong computer ski ll s, ALSO OFFERING studio. Pond . value of your pursuits. acquiring new skills, espe can only be shared. with concise knowledge ,~,,:; ~~~zrP-iANo c.:·"· ··' ' $297,000 Consider that when you are cially skills around leader Consider that powerful of Windows operati ng Call 653-9926 able to render meaningful ship and creative imagina people are able to empow system · and Excel. .. JAZZ: TRUM Per ·. service you feel the most tive thinking. This includes er others while weakness Familiarity with Simply O: Jt\lZGUITAR Accounting , M.Y.O.B., and fulfilled . Even fond actively exercising empa always resorts to control Caseware wou ld be useful. thoughts, prayers and/or thy and compassion. An and intimidation. Strong bookkeeping skills, and a good under standing of accounting principles are requ ired. A professional attitude, LARGE 1 BEDROOM base . ment suite, wood stove, wash excellent commu nication 524 • CHILD CARE er/dryer, close to town . Long skills, flexibility, and will . term . $475/mo. 537-5733. ingness to learn are BABYSITTER: EXPERI . essential. ENCED. 12 years old. Cal l LARGE, BRIGHT 1 bedroom, 537-9922 ask for Ushi. J fii1DII•UM!I~;tllt!1•;1~1it!,§:l 730 • HOUSES FOR RENT 790 • WANTED TO RENT 810 • BOATS/MARINE We'//. Have You FOR RENT. Unique house on RENTAL INCOME. LOOKING TO purchase a 5 acres. Very private. 3/4 bed Prospective tenants require small pilot house sailboat. rooms, 2 bathrooms, large long term accommodation. Such as Pacific Pilot 21 or 26, UPPER GANGES kitchen, living/dining room, We will be the matchmaker. any condition. Please call large deck. Close to town and Salt Spring Property Helmut (250) 629-3593. 1soo Fulford. Furnished $1 ~ 300 per Management. 537-2580. ttn CENTRE month . Available October 1st. Call 653-9926. tfn EXPERIENCED ORGANIC • 2nd floor office farme rs looking for good SAM ANDERSON • 554 sq.ft. 2 BEDROOM DUPLEX with arable acreage for long term Marine Mechanical • 2 pee. washroom big backyard. Several fruit situation. Must have water. Repai r trees. Space for vegetable House not necessary but will • Chairlift garden. Storage shed with consider. Phone 537-8568.35oo Electrical & Pumping The -uarnae~~ • Lots of parking greenhouse extension. Systems Specialist. Available 'september 1st. CARETAKING EXCHANGE. Machine Shop Services For more information $675 per month plus utilities. Sma ll cabin I cottage. Trade for rent or open to options. Fine Machining Cln·s-Sifieds or to view, please Long term, No Pets. Phone Milling & Welding 537-4998 days or 537-2837 Experienc ed tradesman. bring results! call 537-9220 nights. ttn Please call 653-2051 . Tel/Fax: 250-537-5268 References. Hoo pager: 250-538-9000 710.tfn 2 BDRM UPPER for rent. *Regu lar liner View, deck, w/d, mid island. RENTAL INCOME. Prospec tive tenants require long term 810.tfn 730 • HOUSES FOR RENT $695/mo. 653-9188. · 34oo clas.sified, up to 20 accommodation. We wil l be words. Each PEACEFUL, UNIQUE 2 bed FOR OCTOBER 1st: two fur the matchmaker. Salt Spring Answers to additional word room waterfront home with nished lovely ocean view Property Management. 537- today's 40¢. Private party large sun room, wood stove, homes with wa lk-on beach 2580. ~ ads in any regular etc. Long term rental avai l access across the street, avail M:I(ID:!eUi:!JMl1;MI CROSSWORD classification only. No Sept 1. ·· Furnished, able until May 1st. Suitable PUZZLE commercial or home $11 00/mo., unfurnished, for caring couples. $800. 81us WE BUY & se ll new & used $1000/mo. 537-5380. 37oo hydro. Please call 653-00 7. business ads. outboards. Yo ur "Nissan" out Changes not per CABIN/TRAILER. · PRIVATE, 770 • SHARED ACCOM. board dealer, 2 yea r warranty . ••• COHOE•o"o l "u""I SA A ••C . idea l for work ing single person Ross The Boss Marine & C A 0 N Y N V E R N 0 N mitted. HALO SRO .E C H O only, queer friendly. Close to ROOMMATE NEEDED to Equipment. 537-9908. ttn Advertisers must U T 8 E A U T.l 0 Ganges. $375/month + some sha re large character 4 bed u 23' DIVING BOAT. john M E ••0 E p A R A 0 E S call to cancel. utilitres. September 1. 538- room hom e on 2 acres. Close Deere In board. Good condi • T •I • c • 3400 to town. September 1. $306 1990. tion . Previously a crab boat. ••C A M E R 0 "! C A N ••D Y plus utilities. Call ~37-9689. ttn "• "• FULFORD, FURNISHED exec $5,000 obo. 537-3550. 34oo 0 v N 0 8 L 0 R E s 0 ••N G .A•• R E A utive home. 2 bedroom, 2 790 • WANTED TO RENT BOATBUILDING SUPPLIES T I 0 I E 0 A X M A N baths, office. Oceanview, hot •• TWO SSI Wrinklies. NS, MD for less. Fibreglass, epoxy, .0 E L T A L > A 0. & L A c y E L 324 Lower Ganges -Road tub, workshop, fruit trees seek a month in the sun. hardware, fasteners .. . Best ·· L •• gardens. Pets/children wel Know a warm driveable desti prices; will ship anywhere. The •• ~~ B~!.. l!!!:~le Phone: 537·4040 come. $1200 month. Call nation available ]an/Feb 01? Marine Supply Store, 1-888- The Classifieds collect (250)474-2841. 36oo Please call 537-5694. 3400 748-1149 or lmarine.com. ttn continue on Page 31 .. ACCENT Fail-Safe /'\/\RDON ELECTRIC POWER DARI, -RMT LTD. for remote sites. 0 Total Electric Service. Trannormational Healing Arts 'centre ;.: ) .. ::' _,{"' • Free 370 Stark Road ,,,, ,/!£,• . .:~,. y consultation Lancer Building En. 32.1 Lower Ganges Road 537-2156 Fax: 537-5782 OptiOnS - ~~s~~nm 537-9362 GVM Mall• 537-8371 .. This space ~MINUTE+ We Paint &Redecorate is available. ~MI{F~kAfk~ with Care Give us a call! FREE INSPECTION • NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY SPECTRA·TOOE PAlm· e PARA Paul Brosseau · B~!.. ~~~le J~i ISLAND MARINE 2\jviera 2\pofing M ~ CONSTRUcnON'SERYICES Lm. NO~AD 653'4565 Mailed FREE to over Wayne Simons M1JSJC www.nomadmusic.com Welding, 537-1312 4,650 Machining Salt Spring homes & Fabricating PROFESSIONAL RECORDING & Specializing ill: STUDIO businesses every week. Aluminum & Stainless Steel • Full Production Albums for under $5,000 324 Lower Ganges Road Phone: 250-537-4040; Fax: 250-537-8829 537-9710 635 Sunset Drive. Salt Spring Island. B.C. V8K IE8 • Demos for under $1,000 email: [email protected] Dash-wood When you want SSPM CONSTRUCTION LTD. Salt Spring Property Custom Homes • Renovations 'f. Additions • Timberframe joinery INSULATIO Management Inc. •Project Management You want Windsor! Management and maintenance of you r horne and property Services include: Landscap ing, Groundskeeping, Irrigation Over 15 years of accurate Top quality products at Systems, Water-Sav ings Programs, Property Rentals workmanship in Salt Spring competitive prices. Locally owned a operated. "Takina Care Of Salt S8rina " Don Dashwood Ph/Fax: 537-5210 Office:0 537-258 "' email: sspm@saltspring .com :JO TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 • -the Hn,r:n.n,cJ.e continued from Page 30 ______e_ t_c_. ~_e_t_c_. ______ 820 • CARSITRUCKS HOLD THE PRESS 1994 PONTIAC Firefly excellent BARGAINS! BARGAINS! condition, 50,000km. New tires, Bargains! Moving & Garage Sale. am/fm tape player. Perfect island 3 piece kitchen set $25. Medichair :car. Very low gas consumption. - a steal at $275 . Older type :$6500. 537-5372. 3400 portable Singer sewing machine ;1990 JEEP Cherokee Laredo, $20. Queen size box spring & mat :Automatic, Air, Cruise, Power Door tress on frame, very clean. $295 . .locks, Power windows, power mir Nearly new Shop Vac, newly serv :rors, 4 door, Red . 183,000 kms. iced $30. Hedge trimmer - Echo Tuned, new brakes, clean. $10,500 brand, new cost $400, for only $50. Sabre Saw - never used $30. obo. 537-8433. ttn Above open to offers, to view now. NICE LITTLE '87 Toyota Wagon. Phone 537-9241. Automatic. 4WD. Good condition. 185,000 kms. $3800. 537-9684 FLOCK REDUCTION sa le. 13 healthy 2 & 3 year old ewes. All 3500 shots, wormed - good producers. AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTA Phone 653-4444. TION '85 Subaru wagon, lady driv MANY GOOD items in Garage en, 4 speed. Clean and rel iable, Sale. Craft books, tabletop BC asking $1,500 (neg) 537-2521 wilderness books, assorted bed evenings. ttn ding, silk flowers. Knitting wool, '91 SUBARU Legacy all wheel drive garden cart and much more. wagon, air conditioned, power Saturday, August 26, 9- 12:30, rain locks etc. Very clean $7,800 obo. or shine. 125 Hillview Place. 653-4558. 3600 FOR SALE. Computer desk/hutch 1986 BRONCO 4 X 4. 4 speed, 59" w. Oak and 'wood product' well maintain ed. Good condition construction. Used 6 month. $200 body & mechanical. Removable obo. ($350 new). Kenmore wash- . hardtop. $4,800 obo. 537-4101. er. Runs well $75. 537-2209. GENTLY USED furniture, tools, and 1981 BLACK Chev van. Excellent many miscellaneous house hold tires & glass. Needs work. As is, items at S.O.S. now located in $500 o.b.o. 537-9847. 34oo Merchant Mews, 315 Upper CATHY AT THE BAT-and apparently the only one with her eyes on the ball (at the far left side of the picture}. Th e .Ganges Road (opposite Tread 1989 MERCURY Sable. $2,500 Shed). Please park in main lot and Molly Ackerman In vitational fastball tournament was held last weekend in Fulford. Vancouver team The Characters walked obo. 653-9566. 3400 walk around back to Unit #9. away undefeated, and the Viscounts took second place in the five-team tourney. Cathy George, Molly's granddaughter, is 1984 VOLVO 760 Turbo 4 door Wednesday to Saturday 9:00 to sedan, $4500. 538-1991 .34oo 1:00. For appointment ca ll 537- part of the Moby's team . The y and the Salt Spring Rockz were the two local teams participating under the watchful eye of 6250 or 537-9641 . Cathy's grandfa ther, Bob Ackerman, who was there for most of the weekend. 830 • MOTORCYCLES ANNUAL KAYAK Sale begins ea rly! Saltspring Kayaking has gen 1975 HONDA 90 179 miles tly used Kayaks and accessories on $1100. 537-9172. 3400 sa le now at the Fulford Wharf. Open da ily for rentals, sales, 830 • MOTORCYCLES instruction and tours as well as bike Shortage conra. from p3 m-pact cont'd.fromp21 re pai rs. Oh yes, and ask about our 1996 BMW RS1100, red, ABS Tuscany Kayak tour in October. brakes, heated throttlemeister, han 653-4222 . find replacements. Curiously, as they returned from the intermission with dle grips, black sadd le bags, 32,000 totally new looks, they wondered out loud if we were real kms, In superb condition . $13,500. '86 PLYMOUTH RELIANT station "Sell is a bygone idea ... There are physicians who have 537-2329. 3500 wagon. Good running condition. tried for years to find a replacement." ly enjoying them-the quality of our attention was , w~l $1,725 obo. 537-2763. He said the manpower crisis in nursing has been widely so attentive. Truth is, the quality of their attention-to every 840 • RVS 56' DELHI antenna tower, CDE documented, but the manpower crisis with doctors is even detail of their performance, as music, as theatre, as an ex rotor, bearing & mast. 3-element CAMPER, 8', fridge, furnace; in greater and more serious. Once the crisis is recognized, it pression of utterly modern pleasure in the joy of living, de-· excellent condition. $900. 37- beam antenna. 537-2100. - I 4726. 3400 BEAUTIFUL HANDCRAFTED 3 takes a minimum of nine years to train a new doctor, and served our rapt attention and I can only hope they left bedroom home across from ocean benefit from that, added Shea. assured that they had it. 850 • TRAILERS on private 2 acres. Walk from Fulford. Quest cottage included. 8s·coLEMAN 8' Tent Trailer. Press water, sink, 2 burner stove, flush Seeking immaculate non smoking occupant to rent or bt,Jy. No pets. along, an ecstatic groan escaped from somewhere nearby. toilet, awn'g. New 12" wheels, $900 . 537-9114. prop tank & reg, boat rack. Back for a set of Hayden songs, MacRae filled the hall Excellent shape. $3,995 obo. 538- KAYAK, FIBERGLASS, Current Mozart cont'd.frompl3 0070. 3400 Designs Pachena. $1 ,500. Great with her immaculate diction and powerful voice. Her ver HOLD THE PRESS shape, includes spray skirt. View at those who will be attending James Parker's concert since sion of Shakespeare's She Never Told Her Love brought a Saltspring Kayaking in Fulford. Ask fresh poignancy to the image of patience on a monument, NEWSPRINT ROLL ends now about Tom Grahams boat. Private he is including it in his programme. available for sale at The Barnacle Sale, No tax! 653-4222. The balance between the fortepiano and guitar was per smiling at grief. As the three performers joined together office - 324 Lower Ganges Road. for the final song, Mozart's Zufriedenheit, (Contentment), 537-4040. tfn Buying or selling, fect in the next Sonata, K.570-the pleasure of being not so much washed with sound as reaching out and hearing they quite literally charmed us . I hope we hear a great deal EAT, DRINK and bank on more of the fortepiano in the future-1'11 never listen to http:/ /cetsi.net/BeMerry. tfn the heart of every note can hardly be overstated. As the Mozart again without thinking of the pleasures of its FOR SALE: Flagstone for patios · B~!~.~le final allegro finished, the guitar singing and humming and stairs, stacking rock for walls sound. Like dancing in shoes that really, really fit. and gardens. Call Greg at 65 3- 4519. ~ Classifieds If you're looking for the best CHIMNEY CLEANING, window place to buy, sell, rent, or hire washing, de-mossing roofs, gutter almost any product or service, cleaning, power washing and look no further than Feeling Corny? more. No job too big or sma ll. Call the Barnacle classifieds! Greg, 653-4519. ttn Antiques • Crafts HOUSE FOR rent. September 1st, Appliances • Cars Hornes fry • Pets Apartrnents modern, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, Furniture ocean view, 1 acre, all appliances. Farrn Equiprnent $950. 653-9093 or (250) 721- 7404 . Building Mater~G: '82 HONDA 450 BLACKHAWK, With hundreds 44,000 km. $800. Will finance . of people li sting %$~ Also have '86 jimmy 4x4. Very and buying things t clean. 653-9258. every day, the Barnacle Z HELP WANTED. Full-time house 1 classifieds 1 ~ ~ keeper wanted. Apply to manager are like money ~ 0 Fulford Inn 653-4432 or drop in the bank. ~ Exciting New resume off. Put them .M) ~ . to work C::.il' SEMI-SUITE. 2 rooms, private entrance. Kitchen, share bath !myoo! ~ Prepaid Phone Deals room . Suit quite mature adult. $385 and 1/2 utilities. Close to •Just in time for school town . 53 7-5730. •4 phones from $79 (after rebate) FOR SALE. Used like new Burley ~~~· D'lite $400 obo. Adams trail-bike. $100 obo. 537-9616. • Includes $25 airtime PROFESSIONAL HOUSECLEANER needs housesitting or care taking •Offer good 'til Sept. 30, 2000 position. Can do light maintence and construction also. Have island references. Call Wolf 653-9839. 1976 VOLVO STATION Wagon. ~ GVM Mall --#"TELUS'" Classifieds Good condition. No rust. $1 ,200 537-8371 ~. Mobility obo. Call after 5 pm. 537-8737. 537-4040 -the :Un.:r:n.o.cie • TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 :J...... ~ ·---.. in \\, _d_e-=p_th______ Much more than iust YOGA twisting into knots Lila Ostermann is a miracu undermined of energy," in sharing her wisdom than in lous person. 1 met her last she says. "As we don't exhale earning money. Her workshop week and can't stop thinking enough, we can't inhale next weekend is very inexpen ~ about her and the lessons she enough." . sive and she offers a sliding taught me. At 80 years old, Because breathwork is so scale. she has more energy and en critical, Lila devotes a part of "If I could afford it to do it thusiasm than many people class time to teach breathing totally free I would .. .I just ask less than half her age. Her vi methods, especially to begin for my travelling expenses." tality and positivity are the re ners, and uses sounds to draw She has come here from her sult of a yoga lifestyle, which the breath out. home in Lindsay, Ontario to she has been practising for Lila also dedicates a lot of teach at the Salt Spring Cen most of her life. time in her classes to yoga tre's recent retreat. When Lila was younger she philosophy.. Her contracted cancer. upcoming work "It really turned my life shop is called around. Totally," she says. "I "Yoga as a Way gave up drinking, smoking, of Life." For her meat, everything." it's not enough to And she began practising simply learn the yoga. asanas (postures): Forty years later her reper "Yoga is body, toire includes techniques she mind, and sprit." has learned from masters of To gain the mos t benefits many different kinds of yoga: Lila Ostermann, a 40-year yoga practitioner, is Hara, Classical Ashtanga, and f rom yoga-t o conducting workshops this weekend. Chi-Gong, to name a few. reach new leve ls After being a student for 10 -of consciousness- a person Lila's kindness runs deeper years, Lila began teaching. must also chant, meditate, than financial assistance. She She wanted to share what she and commit selfless acts. Ask truly wants to share the good- had learned out of gratitude Lila about this early in the ness in her life with everyone. Baba Hari Doss working with students on "selfless service, " an integral part for the positive changes iii. her morning when she's cleaning. I learned an enormous of yoga practice. life. washrooms as part of her seva amount from her in a short The most (selfless) ser- talk and an hour-long class. A important Stories and photos vice. I have day with her would be magi- Follow the eight limbs thing to to admit that cal. As Lila says herself, "I • Lila is by I don't get a don't pray fo r miracles, I rely breath Kelly Waters spiritual high on them." P~rhaps she can to 1nner peace -.control. from doing teach us this, too. A famous movie intoned, "If you build it, they will come." For She is convinced that "the housework, Lila's workshop is August 26 the Salt Spring Centre, the reverse is true: when they come, they breath is your life." Along but for Lila this is just one and 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. build it. with the yoga techniques she more way of showing her at the Salt Spring Centre. $40 For the past 25 years, the Centre has held summer retreats with already knew (called pranaya gratitude for her wonderful per day (sliding scale), $25 for Baba Hari Dass and the participants have contributed their time ma), Lila studied breath ther life. And she gives without morning or afternoon session. building various structures on the land. This is karma, or selfless apy in Switzerland. She is reservation. No previous experience is service, which is an important aspect of yoga practice. dismayed to see how poorly This generosity is another necessary, but bring your own The Salt Spring Centre is part of the Dharma Sara Satsang So people generally breathe. aspect of Lila that amazes me. lunch. Register at the dogr or ciety, which teaches and practices Classical Ashtanga Yoga (eight 'We in the West are so She is much more interested call 537-2326. limbs), dating to before 200 BC. The asanas (postures) are only one part of yoga life. There is also pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (pulling the mind inward), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), samadhi (enlightenment), and the yamas and niyamas (virtues and moral conducts). The goal of yoga practice is to feel less pain inside and become happier, more at peace. This can be achieved by following any of the above "limbs", but is easier when all eight practices are observed. PoWer yoga seminar emphasizes good health Have you heard of "Power Yoga?" It's an energetic series of yoga postures that has become immensely popular in the last ~~~. . Dr. Peter Bennett will be on the Island next weekend to teach this kind of Ashtanga Yoga (as taught by Putabhi Jois). A Natur opathic practitioner, Dr. Bennett has seen "nothing as powerful in keeping good health." It improves the musculo-skeletal sys tem, organ function, and circulation in the body and to the brain. The seminar will emphasize conditioning and breath training. Tne workshop is August 25 to 27 at Fulford Hall and costs $120 for the weekend, including one meal. There are beginner and intermediate classes. You can register at the door or call 537-1495. Space is limited. 82 TUESDAY, AUGUS 22, 2000 • "C;he :n--:rxuu~Ie