A2 ~ WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 23, 2000 NEWS BEAT GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD World at your fingertips at new Corintemet Cafe Wanting to locate an old and help of a federal government the same time." du Plessis. The young workers People checking in during open dear friend? Needing a special part grant, officially opens on the Thanks to Community Access have given the interior rooms of house days will be eligible to win for your project car? Hoping to get ground floor of the McPhillips Program (CAP) grants distributed the Core Inn a major facelift; door prizes, including gifts from info on a troubling medical condi­ Avenue centre next week. by the federal government, urban painted new signs and a sandwich Salt Spring Soapworks, Luigi's tion? Wondering where your Everyone is invited to the open and rural communities across the board; designed and tested a menu Pizza, Salt Spring Books and other favourite musician is currently house which runs frofn country are "getting connected" for the cafe; carried out research island enterprises. At the touring? Wednesday, August 30 to Friday, and Salt Spring Island will soon into computers; conducted a pub­ Corinternet launch, there'll be a These are just a few of the myri­ September 1 between 1 and 4 be home to its own cool CAP lic survey on community Internet barbecue, balloons and more. ad paths people can take on the p.m., with a grand launch party on site. needs; and engaged in fundraising For further information, people World Wide Web or the Internet, Saturday, September 2 from 11 Working closely with Core Inn and awareness activities at the can contact Nobile or duPlessis at and soon they can do it in down­ a.m. to 3 p.m. coordinator Trish Nobile, and with Saturday Market and the Garlic the Core Inn, 537-9932. town Ganges at the Corinternet "We'll help you get comfort­ technical guidance from CAP Festival. Cafe. able with the Internet," says committee chairman Varek The cafe, put together by the Adrian du Plessis, Corinternet Boettcher, students Shasta Coffey, Core Inn Youth Project Society Cafe coordinator "and introduce .r­ Ara Matheson, Natalie North and and four hired students with the you to a fine mocha milkshake at Daniel Wood have been busy, says PARC REFERENDUM QUICK REPAIR! From Page A1 ~_,.,...,.~...J OF CHIPS AND CRACKS. Save the high cost of projects. ed a public survey. It was refined Rainbow Road property Saturday '~~~--~~windshield replacement. The proposal is to raise a maxi­ after an indoor recreation facility with only representatives of vari­ mum of $111,000 per year, or up task force did further study in ous community groups and the Free estimates - call today! to 9.2 cents per $1,000 of taxable 1995-96, and a 1998 community media invited. assessment through a property tax survey again put indo9r~ecreation Printed or verbal information is levy for the next 10 years. For the at the top of its wish list. now available for the public average property assessed at PARC already owns 1.22 acres through the PARC office at $212,000, the cost would be $18 of land close to the high school, Portlock Park (537-4448) or on per year. Business properties which is envisioned to comple­ the PARC website at crd.bc.ca/ssi­ would contribute 2.45 times that ment use of the larger parcel. parc. A brochure was also sent amount. Fraser said PARC must plan for through the mail. As the island's population the island's future needs, adding Info booths will be in the grows; that yearly figure would that the Texada lands situation has Saturday market most weeks, decrease as more people pitched in shown us "how a vision for the open houses are set for September to make up the $111,000 maxi­ future is really important for the 9 and 12 , and at the fall fair. mum. community." PARC commissioners will also PARC purchased the Rainbow Even if the referendum is gladly speak to community groups Road parcel under a 10-year bor­ defeated, the property's debt about the referendum. rowing bylaw with the possibility would still have to be dealt with. A sign on Rainbow Road identi­ of refinancing at the end of that "The debt must still be retired fies the spot at present, but the period. But its plan to pay off the and we would have to come up premises are currently rented and property without increasing taxes with a solid plan to pay off that people should not enter the prop­ was sidetracked by a Municipal debt," explained Fraser. erty unless they are part of a Act change which means the debt It would result in about PARC-organized tour. must now be paid off by $100,000 be ing taken from Fraser stressed that the December 31,2005. PARC's annual operating budget. September 30 referendum is not As explained by PARC commis­ Alternatively the property about deciding on a specific recre­ sioners Saturday, the Rainbow would have to be sold and expan­ ational facility at this time. Any Road property near Gulf Islands sion of island recreation facilities proposals about a pool or skating Secondary is considered ideal for put off indefinitely. rink would need to go through a recreation facility in terms of its Some possibilities for the capi­ another referendum some years size, lay of the land for construc­ tal reserve fund, if approved down the line and after thorough tion, and its location close to through referendum, include pur­ public discussion. schools and Ganges - which also chasing land for a south-end ball "It could be sooner or it could conforms to community plan pro­ park since the current site is only be later," said Fraser. "It depends visions. leased; expansion of Portlock on the public." of a return flight on PARC chairman Wayne Fraser Park; increasing walking trails or For now, he said, the most said that acquiring land for a the Ganges linear park public important thing was that as many future indoor recreation facility pathway. people as possible vote on HARBOUR AIR'S near Ganges was identified as a PARC took a new tack in infor­ September 30 to give PARC a VANCOUVEit SERVICES* community wish in PARC's 1992 mation management by holding an clear direction for the future. master plan process, which includ- official "referendum launch" at the • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • GANGES to DOWNTOWN VAN. $63.0)* +GST one way -HOW TO Vancouver Harbour toHrom Gulf Islands This schedule will service only Ganges Harbour-Salt Spring Island and Maple Bay, near Duncan on Vancouver Island. 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