Changemakers! An Irish Rover International Women’s Day on canvas celebrated Will Millar exhibits at Gallery 8 PAGE 17 PAGE 10 GULF ISLANDS $ 25 Wednesday, March 8, 2017 — YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1960 57TH YEAR ISSUE 10 1(incl. GST) SEARCH & RESCUE Missing woman found safe RCMP and SAR crews respond BY ELIZABETH NOLAN DRIFTWOOD STAFF Salt Spring RCMP reported a positive conclusion to a potentially dangerous situation last week when a woman in her 70s went missing overnight. Salt Spring Search and Rescue crews were called out at about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1 and began a ground search in the 800 block of Beaver Point Road, covering an area of trails, Weston Lake waterfront and neighbouring prop- erties. SAR crews continued to search until about 2 a.m. on March 2, and then paused until daylight. SAR search manager Chuck Hamilton said volunteers returned to their hall at that point to prepare information pack- ages for mutual aid teams set to arrive PHOTO BY JEN MACLELLAN from Vancouver Island later that morn- IN THE FRAME: Visiting fi lmmakers enjoying the Salt Spring Film Festival at GISS on Sunday are, from left, Brianne Nettelfi eld, Naomi ing. Mark, Jennifer Galvin, Jesus Guillen and John Hopkins. See more festival coverage on pages 7, 8 and 9. SEARCH continued on 2 FUNDRAISER We want your input! Thank you to everyone who has completed the Driftwood readers survey so far. The response has been Rare cancer spurs generosity great! The easiest way to complete Bone replacement surgery scheduled this month the survey is online through the link at the top of the page on our BY ELIZABETH NOLAN ing as of press time. School friends, soccer Darcy, who just turned 15, is the kind of website: www.gulfislandsdriftwood. DRIFTWOOD STAFF teammates, parents and teachers have all kid who usually spends his time in sport- com, or through our Facebook The Salt Spring community has wasted rushed to help the family focus on their ing activities, riding his bike or swimming page: www.facebook.com/ no time in stepping up for Darcy Ross most important needs as an overwhelm- at the lake when not playing soccer or gulfislandsdriftwood. It should take MacLean and his family, following news ing situation unfolds. snowboarding. But most of his first year less than 10 minutes to complete. the active teenager faces intensive surgery “We’re so grateful for all the support of high school has been spent in a cast The survey can also be done in as the result of a rare bone cancer. we’re getting on and off the island,” said instead after doctors discovered a rare print. It is available in the March 1 A GoFundMe fundraising campaign Darcy’s mother Ellen Ross. “People have form of cancer called adamantinoma was issue of the Driftwood or a copy can that launched last Monday brought in been offering us so much — it’s just unre- eating a hole in his tibia. be picked up at the Driftwood offi ce $13,000 in just a week, with donations al. But it’s hard to figure out what to ask at 328 Lower Ganges Rd. exceeding the initial target and still climb- for.” DARCY continued on 2 Submission deadline is March 17. 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They will also insert orthopedic surgery at B.C. Chil- a bone from a cadaver and metal dren’s Hospital on Jan. 4, involving plating into that leg, and may have the removal of two bone cysts and to implant a metal rod in his right bone grafts, doctors determined leg for support. More bone graft- Darcy was 99 per cent cancer-free. ing may be required. A lengthy But after a final check on Feb. 10 recovery process is expected, but his family learned that cancer Ross said Darcy remained in fairly cells had been detected. good spirits. “With Darcy’s form of cancer Darcy’s parents will be in Van- being so rare, not much is known couver for the surgery and an about it,” his sister Aunabeth unknown period afterward and PHOTO COURTESY ROSS MacLEAN famIly Ross MacLean explains on the are currently looking into what Darcy and his older sisters Aunabeth, left, and Mariah. PHOTO COURTESY ROSS MacLEAN famIly GoFundMe page. “What we do kind of housing they might be Darcy Ross MacLean. know is that chemotherapy and able to get. Previous visits to Van- “My family and I are blown bottom of our hearts for every- radiation do not work for people couver have also challenged their away at how much support we’ve thing you guys are doing . It Darcy is not the complain- with adamantinoma, and so the ability to work, so they appreciate been receiving for Darcy,” Auna- makes me so thankful to have the ing type — having a full leg cast two options in his case are either the meals and other offers of help beth Ross MacLean posted to Salt Spring community support- barely slowed him down in the a mass resection of the bone or that have come pouring in. Facebook. “Thank you from the ing my little brother.” ISLANDS TRUST FLU LTC to redress suites oversight Fulford Creek Commons cal areas, and an adjoining required to prove water supply PANDEMICS organic farm with six acres of for a seasonal cottage, a dwell- wins bid for both suites shared farm land. The strata ing unit and a secondary suite Learning about the and cottages owners had understood that for each proposed lot. different types of flu and both suites and cottages would “One of our lots did not have be allowed on the private lots sufficient flow rates, and we the steps you can take to BY ELIZABETH NOLAN when they subdivided the acre- were required to enter into a keep your family healthy DRIFTWOOD STAFF age, but a strict interpretation covenant with the LTC to restrict and safe during a health The Salt Spring Local Trust of the land-use bylaw says oth- the range of uses allowed on Committee will look at amend- erwise. At least one building that lot. If the Islands Trust staff emergency, is the best ing the regulations around sec- permit has been denied as a had only calculated volume defense against a flu ondary suites following a peti- result. requirements for a secondary pandemic. tion by the Fulford Creek Com- Drumheller said the average suite or a cottage, and not both, mons co-housing community. strata lot size is three acres, this lot would have had enough Speaking in a delegation to and most owners would like water and we would not have Check out the Public Health Agency of Canada to learn more about: the LTC at their Thursday busi- to include suites in their main had to bear the cost of this cov- • understanding pandemic influenza • flu prevention checklist ness meeting, strata spokesper- dwellings as well as a season- enant,” Drumheller observed. • pandemic flu planning checklist son Leanne Drumheller point- al cottage in order to finance Trustees voted to amend the ed out an apparent contradic- mortgages and provide afford- land-use bylaw wording with tion between the bylaw permit- able housing. confirmation from regional http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/influenza/ ting secondary suites and the “Our belief is that this is an planning manager Stefan Cer- land use bylaw’s guidelines on incorrect interpretation,” she mak that the intention had fam-eng.php seasonal cottages. said. “It’s delaying a couple of not been to restrict seasonal www.prepareyourself.ca The Burgoyne Valley devel- people right now. They’ve had cottages when the secondary opment is a 33-acre bare land to redesign.” suites bylaw was brought in. strata subdivision comprising As Drumheller further “I think you can take some GULF ISLANDS six private strata lots, 14 acres explained in a letter to the LTC, comfort from the fact the LTC of common land with ponds, during the subdivision pro- recognizes the error,” said D YOURriftwood COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1960 trails and protected ecologi- cess the parcel owners were trustee George Grams.