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GERTIE Crew Report
On Monday, April 18, the GERTIE crew met like a three-part Venn diagram – some members of Island Futures (the original GERTIE gang) along with the directors of the Gabriola Community Bus Foundation, and Trevor Gear, our newly-hired coordinator.
read more...Fishing Report for April 26, 2016
Just when I thought it was getting good the chinook seem to have diminished again. Hopefully this is just a moon phase, or planetary alignment, because it should get very productive, very soon.
read more...Golf Report for May 3, 2016
Frank Gregg won the K.P. on hole #16 with a hole-in-one!
read more...Golf Report for April 19
read more...Behind the Scenes: Fay Weller, a volunteer with a vision
Behind the Scenes is an ongoing Sounder series, looking at individual volunteers on Gabriola who are making a difference on the island.
read more...Trevor Gear is GERTIE’s New Coordinator
The GERTIE crew is thrilled to announce that Trevor Gear has been hired for the key operational position of Coordinator for our Community Bus Service, starting May 1.
read more...Fishing Report for April 19, 2016
The chinook have finally started to come through our waters. Bottombouncing in 160 to 180 feet from the Grande through Whalebone produced fish up to 15 pounds from the SilverBlue this week.
read more...Big Brothers & Big Sisters Gabriola information night April 22
read more...Fishing Report for April 12, 2016
I attended the Avid Anglers salmon DNA meeting on Wednesday, and was fascinated by some of the revelations by renowned scientists Dick Beamish and Brian Riddell.
read more...SAGA Stories
Imagine moving to a remote Middle Eastern town; safe but with no money or relatives, unable to read or speak Arabic, with four children to support, not knowing how one makes a living in this place.
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