See our visitor feature: • ISlAND JOURNAL 2 • ISLAND NEWS 3- --. -LAUGH LINES 8 Out+ About • LIVING WELL 14 • TIDE TABLES 5 • MAIL BOX 4 • BOOK ENDS 18 on Salt Spring • ENTERTAINMENT & THE ARTS 10 • ETC 27 • HOROSCOPE 26 See page 21 • DOG DAYS 15 • CLASSIFIEDS 23 • CROSSWORD 24 • CINEMA 13 Isi.~::.1d ..-~-......-..~• VOL. 2, ISSUE 34 Salt Spring Island, B.C. PRICELESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1999 IN THIS ISSUE FOREIGN FRAUD Tribal Drum targetted .•... .. YOUNG AT ART I~ Island kids show their stuff .•..... FINALLY FAREWELL The tanks are gone! .•... .. PARADISE PALMS Plant life draws tourists Devon Guest dressed in costume and joined move than 500 others at Moby's Street Dance, held this past Saturday. The annual fundraiser for Core Inn raised approximately $4,000. Dione Bialecki pl&oto island journal Community wheels locked and we careened off the Who really cares about you? ~ 5M ~ ... ill~ J~ A~ road into the ditch. Wham! More and more it seems that the Luckily we were both unhurt, but tl1e answer is nobody. Almost unnoticed behind the mass of All I know is that our lives are somehow car was badly damaged. After sending Nobody cares. Vancouver Island, sheltered in the strait, transformed and elevated simply because my son home with a friend, I stayed at the Except here. Here on Salt Spring we lie fragments of the North American con­ we live here. Sure, we have our prob­ scene awaiting the tow truck. And it was still care for each other. Damned if I tinent scattered in profusion. Among this lems. Everyone here has a different there, standing beside my crumpled car know how it has survived. Damned if I carelessly strewn chain of misty green opinion on just about everything. in the ditch with my flashers on in the know why. But late one wintry night I spangled jewels lies Salt Spring Island. A Acquiescent, malleable and conventional dark, that it happened. found out. tiny dot on the globe. An infinitesimal people do not venture across oceans to Not one car that passed me failed to We do. speck in the universe. The place we call pioneer and settle isolated, strange lands. stop, roll down the window and ask: "You They call it community. Across the home. Islanders are always contrary, individual­ OK?" "Need some help?" "Anything we waters it has become a rare and priceless For centuries, travelers, voyageurs and istic and hard to contain. And it is not can do?" Every car. It was a revelation. commodity. Maybe no one has realized dreamers have wandered here. And they perfect here. There are the haunting EVERY CAR. that it is the glue that holds our whole civ­ still do. Streaming to and from the feny social terrors of addiction, abuse, mental It's no secret that we live in a world that ilization together. Perhaps most of all it is terminals, the float plane docks and the anguish and breakdown. We still have is daily growing colder. No matter where why they all still journey here to Salt marinas a constant and every changing disease and crime. People still -tip you you tum one simple human life is becom­ Spring. To be part of that caring, that mass of humanity invades this sleepy little off, or steal from you. And every flaw, ing more unimportant and inconsequen­ sense of community. island community day after day. The weakness and inhumanity festering in our tial. I know each of us are unique and dif­ island refuge over the years has meant so civilization everywhere has its vestige and Read the papers. Listen to the news. ferent here. I know that just like me, in many things to so many different people. trace here. But somehow all these nega­ Where do you really fit in ? your life there must be an overwhelm­ But most of all it is somehow a special tives are not quite as stark and shattering. Where are YOU important in the over­ ing amount of things that must be done place. A sanctuary. A healing place. Something else somehow factors into the all scheme of things? to survive. And there is uncertainty, It is difficult to say why. Perhaps it is equation. Huge and powerful multinational con­ worry and fear everywhere. But maybe the secluded and safe isolation. Perhaps And I tl1ink that late one dark, icy night glomerates. New World Order. once in a while we should try to step it is the majestic and unforgettable blend a few winters ago it finally became clear Economic restructuring and restraint. beyond all of life's "amenities" and rec­ of seashore, natural beauty and peaceful to me what that special thing is that we World financial market instability. ognize what makes Salt Spring such a quietude. Perhaps it is the carefree, have here. My son was due at a hockey Genetic engineering. Government truly special place, and what we have casual and expansive freedom from the practice over in the arena at Fuller Lake, bureaucracy and cutbacks. Social disinte­ together. pressurized, dehumanized and frenetic and I was hurrying to catch the inevitable gration. Family meltdown. Profit. Taxes. congestion that has overwhelmed urban feny along Vesuvius Bay Road. It was Productivity. Efficiency experts. Until that time, life elsewhere. past 7 in the dark and too late I realized Downsizing. Jim Anderson Perhaps. that there was black ice on the tum. The calendar of If you would like an event listed drop by 324 Lower Ganges Road, · B~!J!~le e-mail: [email protected] UPCOMING EVENTS or fax us at: 537-8829 AUGUST MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 23 Family Place, 24 Melissa Searcy 2 5 Music and Munch, All 26 Treehouse Cafe, open 2 7 ASA Young Artists Bursary Exhib. and 28 ASA Young Artists Bursary Exhib. and Auction mike; every Thursday Auction Sale, ArtSpring, Aug. 27 -29; 4- 29 ASA Young Artists Bursary Exhib. Beach Days. Ceramic Art, Moby's; Saints·by·the·Sea, saxcr Sale, ArtSpring, Aug. 27·29; 9am-11pm and Auction Sale, ArtSpring, Aug. phone duo. 9pm lnlo: 537·9176 all August MS Society mig, Seniors' bldg; 7pm Beethoven Festival, ArtSpring; Aug. 27·29 27 -29; 1Oam-Spm A/gentian Tango practice, Beethoven Festival, ArtSpring; Aug. 27-29 Sing Along old memories, Melissa Searcy Ceramic Art, Melissa Searcy Ceramic Alfrescos; 6:3Q.9pm Melissa Searcy Ceramic Art, Moby's; all August Sue Newman, Molly's; 8pm Art, Moby's; all August Seniols' bldg; 10:30am Moby's; an August Jill Louise Campbell Studio, live entertainmen~ Molly's, Wed. Night Ufe; 9pm FriJSun. afternoons in August Shari Macdonald, photo art. Dares; all August Beethoven Festival, ArtSpring; Aug. 27- Shari Macdonald, photo art, Shari Macdonald, photo art, Dares; 29 Shari Macdonald, photo Melissa Searcy Ceramic Art, Melissa Searcy Ceramic Art, Moby's; all art, Dares; all August Dares; all August all August Concerts in the {Centennial) Park, Triskele Celtic Molly's; all August August Band; 10:30am Melissa Searcy Ceramic Art, Moby's; Susheela·Torch Song Jazz, all August Shari Macdonald, photo art, Treehouse; 6pm Geronimo, Beaver PI Hall Rose's Seaside Cafe, Eugene Smith; 8pm Dares; all August Shari Macdonald, photo art, Dares; all Shari Macdonald, photo art, Dares; all Susheela· Torch Song Jazz, Treehouse; 6pm August Paul Mobray, Jazz & Blues, August Treehouse; 6-9pm Michele & John, blue grass, Rose's Seaside Cafe, open stage Treehouse; 6pm Susheela-Torch Song Jazz, Treehouse; 8pm 30 Melissa Searcy 3 1 Melissa Searcy Ceramic 1 Treehouse Cafe, open 3 Valdy, Moby's; Sept 3-4 4 Valdy, Molly's; Sept 3-4 5 Simone Grasky, jazz, Molly's; Ceramic Art, Art, Moby's; all August EPTEM BER 2 mike; every Thursday Out To Sea, one-act play by Galiano 8pm Moby's; aH August . Out To Sea, one-act play by Galiano aub, Sing Along old memories, Seniors' Music and Munch, All Saints-by­ Club, ArtSpring; Sept 34 ArtSpnng; Sept 3-4 Shari Macdonald, photo bldg; 10:30am the-Sea Rose's Seaside Cafe, open stage art, Dares; all August Couple!Palooza, 9 SSI couples, Treehouse; 7pm Shari Macdonald, photo art, Funky Groove, Colour Blind, Couple!Palooza, 9 SSI couples, Treehouse; Dares; all August Kemal Morris, Treehouse; 6pm 7pm Funky Groove, Colour Blind, Gene's Farewell, Harbour House; 8:30pm Kemal Morris, Treehouse; 6pm 6 Barley Bros., 7 Sing Along old memories, 8 Music and Munch, All 9 Treehouse Cafe, open 1 0 3rd Annual Indian Summerstock, 1 1 3rd Annual Indian Sunvnerstock, FuHord Hall, 1 2 Through the Fire: Moby's; Spm Seniors' bldg; 10:30am Saints-by-the-Sea mike; every Thursday FuHord Hall, Sept. 10/11; 8pm Sept. 10/11; 8pm Contemporary Clayworks on Through the Fire: Contemporary Clayworks on Thr~ the Fire: Contemporary Clayworks on SSI, SSI, ArtSpring; Sept. 10-12 SSI, ArtSpring; Sept. 10-12 ArtSpnng; Sept. 10-12 Rose's Seaside Cafe, open stage fiVe paint and redecorate IIVIth carer -~A\~ KEVIN C. 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