Subscribe to News RSSGIRO receiving $6K from Community Works fund for used oil collection tank
The Gabriola Island Recycling Organization will be getting a new 4,220 litre oil storage tank installed, with just over $6,000 in Community Works funding through the Regional District of Nanaimo.
read more...Increase in commercial traffic adding to ferry lineup
According to John Hodgkins, Co-chair of the Gabriola Ferry Advisory Committee (FAC), part of what is causing the larger and longer lineups on both sides of the Gabriola ferry route is the increase in the number of tradespeople coming from off island to work on Gabriola.
read more...No changes coming from Ministry or BC Ferries to alleviate ferry pressures
Neither BC Ferries (BCF) nor the Transportation Ministry (MOTI) has any plans to make changes to the Gabriola ferry or lineup area in the near future, pending a system-wide operational review coming later this year.
read more...Road line painting complete for 2017
Lockinvar missed, again
read more...Next study for ferry terminal will include entire area impacted by ferry operations
When a future planning study on the Gabriola ferry terminal is done by BC Ferries (BCF), the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) will be ensuring the study includes the entire area impacted by ferry traffic - not just the immediate terminal and parking lot.
read more...2016 Tugboat/crane incident still under investigation
The investigation into how power and telecommunication lines for Gabriola and Mudge islanders came to be cut last year has not yet been completed by Transport Canada.
read more...Tugboat sunk after larger tug veered off course
Transport Canada has released details into what happened to cause the tugboat Albern to be sunk off the cliffs of Gabriola in 2016
read more...Lions’ Concert on the Green hits all time highs with tribute to Fleetwood Mac
The Gabriola Lions’ Club Concert on the Green has set a new record for both amount raised and attendees, according to the 2017 Concert Chairman John Roman.
read more...RDN taking Village Way Trail issues to Transportation Minister Trevena
The Village Way Trail is a proposed off-roadway trail from the junction of North and South Road (the pencil) all the way up North Road to Tin Can Alley.
read more...Dealing with deer starts with a management plan
When it comes to determining whether Gabriola has too many deer - and, if so, what to do about it – the responsibility falls on the community itself to make those decisions.
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Gabriola Sounder
April 20th, 2018