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New April 1 Schedule for GERTIE (No Foolin’)
By the time you read this, the new spring GERTIE riders’ guides will be distributed to all 31 Gabriola locations and the ferry booths at the Nanaimo terminal. The website: www.gertie.ca will also have immediate and future schedule changes.
read more...Fishing Report for March 31, 2015
Chinook fishing is still slow locally. There are loads of herring making the transition from the spawning shallows to their deep water haunts off the Grande to the waterfall, and at Thrasher.
read more...Off the Grid: Re-assembling Domestic Life By Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart
Readers may be surprised, as I was, at the fine literary quality of what is technically a textbook, but one that I hope will be bought, shared, and borrowed from the library by as many people as possible.
read more...Will the land provide? Island farmers speak out
Grow, buy and eat locally. This was the main theme that emerged in discussion among 90 participants at a public forum on the future of food production on Gabriola, organized by the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society at The Haven’s Phoenix Auditorium on March 8.
read more...Fishing Report for March 24, 2015
It’s that time of year again for my annual tirade against the commercial herring fishery! This year the Flat Top Islands, Gabriola Pass, Whalebone, and even Silva Bay hosted this event, with dozens of gillnetters hugging the shorelines sucking up the roe sticks.
read more...People power brought Commons Kitchen together
It was last spring, a usual Saturday work bee at the Commons. Over the previous weeks our wildly eclectic group had been working hard on the interior of the community kitchen – vapour barrier, drywall, that sort of thing.
read more...GERTIE’s a Team Player
First off, the week of March 2 to 7 was our all-time busiest week at GERTIE, with 345 passengers in total. Since January we have carried over 600 more passengers than during the same period last year.
read more...Fishing Report for March 17, 2015
The chinook fishing has been slow over the past week, and very few people have been fishing, despite good weather conditions on certain days.
read more...For the Record: Archiving the Past in the Present
Before you toss out photographs, letters, emails, maps and the like, ask yourself if these materials could “tell a story of Gabriola.” If so, the museum’s archives would like to have them.
read more...Behind the Garden Gate
The daffodils are up and blooming. On warm days the bees are already busy. It is the start of the growing season, so let’s get busy.
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