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The November 2017 Flagstone Volume 22 Issue 11 $2.00 Denman’s Village Voice Some of the DCLTA Silent Auction Items available on November 18th -Kenneth Callahan's "Mexican Dogs", Bentley Le Baron's Stoneware Sun, Barbara Kane's Specialty Cake. Photo by Noni Fenwick- Wilson DCLTA Silent Auction “Everything for the Home” submitted by Roberta Pagdin Well, Denman Islanders - coming up soon is an all-day event well worth getting up for. The Denman Community Land Trust Association will be holding a Silent Auction on Saturday, November 18th. All proceeds will go to the Acquisition Fund to purchase two acres for DCLTA’s proposed Seniors’ Affordable Housing project. Most of us will, or have already, become seniors. And for many people, it becomes a challenge to find appropriate, affordable housing. In a fortuitous sequence of events, we have a wonderful opportunity here on Denman to make seniors’ affordable housing a reality. Bev Severn, who owns and lives on a semi-secluded acreage close to “downtown” Denman, generously offered to sell two acres to the DCLTA at a below-market price. DCLTA accepted Bev’s offer and in 2013 began work on this project, which is now well along in the process. They have achieved exclusion of the land from the Agricultural Land Reserve, obtained the design for a sewage disposal system, drilled an 80 ft. well and applied for the necessary rezoning. But there is still much to be done before the vision becomes a reality - and your help is needed! The venue for this event will be the Denman Activity Centre. In the lounge, you will find Goods and Services being auctioned off. Here is your opportunity to get a deal on fir firewood, tickets to the next Readers and Writers Festival, boxes of heritage apples, a private dinner party served by Ivanna, paddle board lessons, landscaping, a case of wine. These are just a few teasers - there are approximately fifty items in all! [Type1 text]Roberta Pagdin Silent Auction for DCLTA The Flagstone 2 Index Address: Box 10, Denman Island, BC, V0R 1T0 3 Auction Continued email:[email protected] Slug Blume Reconciliation Circle Advertising call Danni Crenna 4 Laura Busheikin Islands Trust Notebook 5 Sara French Jazz Trio in Back Hall Volunteer Staff 6 Cindy Critchley Health Center Update Production - Danni Crenna (250)335-0198 Ron Sakolsky Welcome Willie Accounting - Helen Mason (250)335-1603 7 Laura Busheikin Xmas Craft Fair The Collating Team - Louise Bell, Graham 8 Various Writers Letters Brazier, Mikell Callahan, Jean Cockburn, Danni Margie Gang Trails Committee Crenna, Cindy & David Critchley, Noni Fenwick- 9 Kate Janeway DICES AGM Wilson, Sterling Fraser, Jane Guest, Harlene Veronica Timmons GPA Apple Fest Update Holm, Helen Mason, Jack Mounce, J Thornton 10 Jenny Balke Bats 11 Andrew Fyson Baroque Festival The Flagstone is a non-profit newsletter put 12 Sponsor Don Luckett Arts Denman Page together entirely by volunteers. Our revenues 13 UB Credit Union The Difference is Community do not cover our costs. Please consider making Bill Engleson 200 Words or Less a donation - drop in the Flagstone box at 14 Ron Sakolsky Welcome Willie Continued Abraxas or mail to the address above. A 15 Laura Busheikin Craft Fair Continued donation of $12 is only $1 per issue - a bargain! Karl Goodwin Cartoon 16 Robert Newton Concerts Denman OUR DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is the Friday 17 Max Rogers Agriculture Matters before we go to print; generally the 3rd Friday 18 Continued of each month. Check this page or the back Garden Club News page or the Grapevine calendar for that date 19 DD Fuchs This Place - Denman Seniors' each month. 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Take a look at some beautiful oriental carpets, a bamboo side table and a locally crafted china/ book case. Some other items from the Graham estate include sets of crystal, collectable Christmas ornaments and a “like new” Kuwahara bicycle. Have you been yearning for something special created by one of our local artists? Consider a large, colourful platter for table or wall, a beautifully woven gathering basket, a pair of decorative felted pillows, perhaps a painting or photograph for the focal point in your home. And the list goes on…. There are over seventy items to peruse in the hall. Please note that there will not be a “Buy It Now” option, as happened in an earlier silent auction. So mark your calendars! Then corner your cousin in Window Courtenay and call your friends on Hornby. Let’s have a washing great turn-out for a worthwhile event. Saturday by November 18th, from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. in the Denman Activity Centre. Light refreshments will be Herman served between 5 and 8. de Vries Successful bidders may pick up their items soon after bidding closes at 8 p.m. Please plan to make your payment with cash or cheque. The Silent Auction Catalogue can be viewed at: denmanaffordablehousing.org Reconciliation Group hosts Listening Circle Submitted by Slug Blume Thursday November 2nd, 6:15-8:30pm [Circle starts 6:30sharp] at the Community School, ‘Denman’ Island A Listening Circle “What does reconciliation mean to you?” We invite community members to gather to share their own and listen to each others experiences, feelings, concepts, concerns, hopes and questions around reconciliation and current day colonialism. We bring this first gathering to you with the intention “Soften our hearts and soften our ears”, a time where we encourage each other to speak, to listen, to learn something about ourselves and each other. The Listening Circle will be gently facilitated to help us all remember that we gather that day to listen to each other, not to debate. There are 20 speaking spaces available inside the ‘core circle’ and we welcome and encourage others to join the ‘outer circle’ to listen to and (to witness) this sharing and process, all will have a chance to add ideas to a Brainstorm Board. All points of view are welcome, including those of concern, doubt or confusion about reconciliation. Our hope is that this gathering will inspire the community to explore further conversations with each other as well as to help us see what next steps might be taken by a local Reconciliation Group to benefit all in our furthering education and exposure on these matters. [As our second gathering we will be screening a documentary on Nov 26th. Keep eyes n ears peeled for location and time] Brought to you by: Riane Dasilva, Maxine Malipti, Laura Busheikin, Ron Wilson, Mike Nestor and Slug Blume. [email [email protected] or call 335-1414 to sign up for a (4 minute) speakers spot, or with any questions] [all ages are welcome, kidcare is a group responsibility] 3 “RECONCILIATION IS NOT ABOUT ‘FEELING GUILTY’. IT IS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE, ACTION AND JUSTICE” 3 33 3 <unsettle150.com> 3 3 3 Trustee Notebook By Laura Busheikin [Type text] Protect Your Property…And Save Money I’ve found that in cities, people who meet for the first NAPTEP is designed to protect key natural features time ask each other, “What do you do?” On Denman Island, such as relatively undisturbed woodlands, watercourses, we tend to ask each other, “Where do you live?” We know wetlands, meadows, coastal bluffs, mature forests, habitat each other by how we connect to the land. for rare native plants, habitat critical and to native animal’s breeding, rearing and feeding, and special And we love the land we live on. For good reason. We geologic features. love the lush evergreen forests, the soaring eagles, the song of the tree frogs, the wetlands teeming with life, the sensual A NAPTEP covenant restricts buildings, new roads, golden curves of arbutus trees, the rocky bluffs, and the removal of native plants, use of herbicides and pesticides, magnificent living ocean. changes to streams and wetlands, and soil modification. With love of the land, and appreciation for its richness How does NAPTEP work? and value, comes a desire to see it protected, forever. To know that ecosytems won’t be carved up by roads or To set up a NAPTEP covenant, you would work with bulldozed for development, to know that bats, butterflies, staff from the Islands Trust Fund, the Islands Trust herons and other species at risk will always have a home. conservation organization. They would visit your property and walk the land with you, and help you with your Much of Denman Island is protected – 24%, one of the application. The process includes the creation of a baseline highest ratios in the Islands Trust Area – thanks mainly to report describing the ecological features of the land. regional and provincial parks, and the work of the Denman Conservancy Association.