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Savary Island Land Trust Society (SILT) for More Information on Visit SILT Preser Va Tion 07 EVENTS SUMMER SUMMER 2007 SUMMER Savary Island Fire Hall Sunday July 15, 1pm Geoduck Aquaculture Information Forum Hosted by the Savary Island Committee The Red House, 1265 Vancouver Blvd. Saturday July 21 SavaryStock II Music Festival & Auction Savary Fun Triathlon Sunday July 22 Bluff Manor, S. side of Vancouver Blvd, Wednesday July 25 Broom bashers planning session 5 lots E.of Henderson) 11 am - 1pm Firehall –Transportation from the Wharf SILT Annual General Meeting Monday August 6, 11am and Indian Point will leave at 10:30am CY SILT LEGA – A lastiNG the land. SILT works with donors hen SILT began in 1997 less to determine the future use of all than 2% of Savary had any properties donated. Canadian donors to SILT form of protection. Today receive a tax receipt for their more than 30% of the island has contributions. On May 2, 2006 some form of protection. the Federal government improved However, over the same period the benefits for donors. Gifts of development on the island has ecologically sensitive land made increased by 62%! At this pace under the Ecological Gifts Program our forests and greenspaces are and donations of publicly listed disappearing quickly; the importance securities are now exempt from of preserving land is growing. capital gains! For more information Since its inception, SILT has go to: www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/ecogifts received eight parcels of land on American citizens living in Savary. In keeping with the SILT the US may make gifts to SILT and constitution, lands acquired by receive a US tax credit for the gift. donation or purchasedupon request specifically by a American donations designated Indian Point donor who gives to SILT may be made through the cash for that purpose Tides Foundation in California. SILT Contact Ruth Bender (415) 561- lots may not be sold. Land donors sign 6347 [email protected] Committed to the preservation of natural Leavea formLand indicating When neighbours pool their intent with areas and biological diversity on Savary SILT lot resources to preserve a piece of Island, for present and future generations. respect to green in their neighbourhood As owner Second the whole island and in Point y of this 5 acre N T www.silt.ca [email protected] A NCIE fact the world benefits. L parcel, SILT also DUNES First s d owns a share in N T Point Box 141, Lund, BC VON 2GO the 35 acre strata. A NCIE Wharf Government DUNES Promenade a n T Come for a Music Festival and Auction in the Woods featuring: N T a ved Savary Lands A NCIE Malaspina V a Preser E S Green’s Russell Beer & Gray Monk Wine, Live Music, a ved by SILT Point DUN L Lands preser Beacon (or Mace) r Province of SILT lot Barbequed Food, and Kids Activities. y is held by the Point e 100% interest Duck Bay n Saturday Columbia Point Point British by the Whalebone Garnet interest held i 50% undivided Don’t miss the of British Columbia the Nature Trust between July 21st Forms a buffer d perimeter. lots. Auction at 3.30pm! c Crown land the smaller and most of high tide mark Includes: Recreational Tours 1pm to9pm • Art by renowned local T o artists • Health and Wellness Packages r s AT The Red House • Gourmet Meals usT 1256 Vancouver Boulevard and much more… A Peak at the Auction (& Julian Road) Tickets: $5 • Landscape on Handmade Paper-Dianne Free for kids under 10! Judith Cacchioni • W Kennedy • Painting - Barbara Painting- Webster Linda Stanbridge • Artwork - Harry and • Framed Photo-Larry Pinfield by Wayne George • Walking Stick • Kingston Trio All proceeds go to the • CD Autographed by Bring your dancing shoes, your picnic blankets, The Folk Reunion Concert Bob Shane Savary Island 2001 DVD -Autographed and your cash and chequebooks – proceeds help Shane. • Handmade Sweater by Bob Land Trust Society Pollen & Co. preserve Savary Island! (SILT) Dinner for 2 Laughing • Lunch for 2 El Nopal • Oyster • Dinner For more information on SILT, visit www.silt.ca for 4 Rick for 2 Ouisi Bistro • Dinner Thaddeus • Dive for 4 Rockfish Zodiac Tour Divers, Victoria • 3 Hour of Desolation Sound TerraCentric Chart Readings and more... • 2 Astrological A SILT event For more event information sponsored by: contact 604-483-4743 or [email protected] LAND TRUST NEWS SUMMER 2007 People pulled together to SILT Many people helped us achieve reach for a dream what some said couldn't be done one third of the Island. With this our vision was realized. By Liz Webster When DL1375 and adjoining or me it began with parcels is fully protected in a song, in fact just perpetuity our dreams will one line from a really come true. song. After completing my Donations from artists presentation to the Directors and the families of artists of the Powell River Regional, have contributed greatly to it just burst out of me like the efforts of SILT. The work a northwesterly. “Don’t it of Helen Griffin, Michael always seem to go, you don’t Kluckner, Frances Shaw and know what you’ve got til its many others have contributed gone”. These words began to successful SILT fundraising a seven-year struggle to auctions held over the preserve the best example of The first SILT board celebrates the signing of the constitution on August 2, years at the Savary a dune ecosystem in Canada. 1997. Standing, Chairman Sherwood Inglis. Clockwise to his right: Daryl Tennis Courts, at I didn’t need to sing the next by the Christopher Harvey Duke, Anna Linsley, Rod Kirkham, Brendan Allen, Hartland MacDougall, the summer home line, it echoed in the minds of the large family. November the same Norma Flawith, Liz Webster, Wynn Woodward. (Carol Wong, Charles Pitts of Wynn Woodward group gathered for the Public Hearing, year Fundraising Chair, Wynn and Paula Butler are not in the photo). Photo: Keith MacDougall and the home of Paul under the canopy of Douglas Fir trees Woodward and SILT member Leighton. at Duck Bay on August 22, 1995. Nicky Morgan organized the visiting Powell River. Armed with In order to try to address the over The Hearing was called to gather First Art Show in support of the Trust all of the scientific data available I subdivision of Savary SILT began to public input to a subdivision By-Law held at the home of Nicky Morgan and made a very low-tech presentation, encourage lot amalgamation in the being proposed for Savary Island by David Tupper in West Vancouver. using colour overheads I “walked” the early years. This effort was given a big the Powell River Regional District. The In October of 1998, the owners politicians through the land, pointing boost in 2004, when Martin and Sarah by-law’s purpose was to subdivide of DL 1375 applied to the Ministry out the significant plants and features Gouin donated $50,000 to establish the last intact then finished by again pressing for the Gouin Family Lot Consolidation district lot (DL The Savary Salish Sea Mapping Project, Summer 2000. the extension of the Pacific Marine Fund. The Fund creates opportunities 1375) on Savary Artist and geographer, Dr. Briony Penn leads a mapping Heritage Legacy to include Savary for property owners to have a huge Island into 90 workshop at the home of Norma Flawith. Participants later Island. Thankfully and finally, after 5 impact on undoing the legacy of over- parcels. DL 1375 mapped the Eagle Ridge Trail. Later that summer, volunteers years of letter writing and intensive subdivision. The capacity for more is the heart of the from all parts of the island documented the natural and cul- lobbying by SILT, on April 1, lot amalgamation to reduce density is Island, covering tural treasures on the island to produce the Savary Salish Sea Map, designed by Kathy Kebarle and Tony Wypkema. The significant on the Island and SILT approximately map was reproduced as placemats and posters and later pub- hopes that more people will take 350 acres and lished in the Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas. advantage of the property tax savings running from the and the support available through the north shore to Gouin Lot Consolidation Fund. south shore. Bellingham businessmen of Transportation and Beyond the DL1375 and related Roger Sahlin and David Syre of Highways to subdivide acquisitions donors have gifted eight Trillium, an international logging and the land into 33 ten-acre separate parcels of land on Savary to development corporation owned the parcels. F SILT. The Christopher Harvey family land. Few speakers supported the Over those years donated a waterfront parcel and 3 by-law. Many requested more research SILT came to learn more lots to SILT in 1999. This beautiful on the Islands’ water resources about just how rare and forest has Old growth Douglas Fir, and and the development of an Official unique the island really Western Red Cedar, with an understory Community Plan for Savary. In a very is. Dr. Kathy Dunster of Salal, Bracken Fern, Oregon Grape, tense PRRD meeting in Powell River a Dune Specialist and R. Twinflower, Rattlesnake plantain, few weeks later, the Directors voted to Prof Biologist documented the dune 2001 the Evergreen Huckleberry, and Dwarf rescind the by-law. ecosystem on DL 1375 at Savary in federal and provincial governments Rose. Additional lots donated by the Early discussions about establishing March 2000. What she found was that agreed to this extension and dedicated Christopher Harvey family and their an organization to promote the preser– it “…represented the best example funds to the acquisition of DL 1375.
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