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Fishing Report for April 18, 2017
Inshore chinook fishing from the Grande through the waterfall produced one nice chinook and two undersized fish on both Saturday and Sunday last weekend.
read more...Gabriola locations among Heritage BC’s newly designated Japanese-Canadian historic sites
On April 1, BC Minister for Multiculturalism Teresa Wat announced a list of 56 historic sites with significance to Canadians of Japanese descent. They include two locations in Silva Bay - the Sunrise Sawmill and Koyama’s Fishcamp.
read more...GERTIE Bus Springs Forward
In the next few weeks you’ll see information about fundraising to match the federal-provincial infrastructure grant targeted for the purchase of newer, greener buses.
read more...Fishing Report for April 11, 2017
My boat was out of the water all week, so I don’t have any firsthand fishing news.
read more...Considering getting a goat?
read more...Fishing Report for April 4, 2017
Last week’s column was indicative of how fast things can change in the local fishery.
read more...the GABE Shop. How it works
Entering our fifth year of operation, The GABE Shop has become an institution on Gabriola Island. Owned and operated by the Gabriola Island Auxiliary for Island Health Care Society, The GABE Shop is a non-profit boutique thrift store.
read more...Fishing Report for March 28, 2017
Chinook fishing is on the slow side, mostly with an occasional undersized fish being released.
read more...GERTIE Going Greener
read more...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.
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