Gabriola Sounder

GERTIE Going Greener

Over 50 books and 23 years later, Naomi Wakan retiring

Nanaimo’s inaugural poet laureate and the Federation of BC Writers inaugural Honorary Ambassador, the 85-year-old has decided to ease up on publishing and spend a little more time tending to her 25 fruit trees on her Gabriola property where she lives with her husband, sculptor Elias Wakan.

Community Hall Mural Project artist chosen

Skatepark design workshop full of “passion and experience”

The future of the skatepark component of Huxley Community Park looks brighter than it has for many years.

GERTIE Knows Gabriola

With spring just around the corner (which corner does she mean??)

Fishing Report for March 21, 2017

People are out jigging herring for bait using multiple red yarn hooks fished in series.

Reitkerk takes Gabriola lessons to Pacific Agricultural Show

Jeff Reitkerk, Gabriola farmer of nut trees and former arborist, presented at the Pacific Agricultural Show on January 25, 2017 in Abbotsford, BC.

Learning to live life to the fullest

Want to know how to feel better, right now? Living Life to the Full is coming!

Iain Lawrence's Skeleton Treet shortlisted for BC Book Prize

Fishing Report for March 14, 2017

Chinook fishing is same-same. Porlier, Thrasher, Grande to waterfall, and Neck Point/Fingers all have some fish showing, with mostly undersized in the mix.