Gulf Islands news

Trash audit lifts lid on recycling

Sustainability advocates are warning high schoolers’ trash is being trucked to the U.S. rife with recyclables, as students conducting “waste audits” at Gulf Islands...

Firefighters start ladder truck training

Firefighters will learn the ins and outs of their new-to-them ladder truck well in advance of bringing it out on an actual fire call,...

Ruckle Heritage Farm Day on Sunday

One of Salt Spring’s favourite annual events is taking place right on schedule, with Ruckle Heritage Farm Day on Sunday, May 3.  Running from 10...

Three waterworks board candidates step up

Three Salt Spring residents have been nominated for two available seats on the five-member North Salt Spring Waterworks District (NSSWD) board of trustees. Voting takes...

Gulf Islands life

GISS student earns Team BC nationals spot

Submitted by GISS TRADES PROGRAM Grade 12 Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS) welding student Antoine Gonzalez will compete with Team BC at the 2026 National...

Repair Cafés offer more than just fixing

By Lighter Living, a Transition Salt Spring Initiative There’s a particular kind of energy in a Repair Café: part curiosity, part hope, part quiet determination. A...

Klein’s Bribe, Inc. film up for Emmy

An investigative documentary film by Salt Spring’s Peter Klein — Bribe, Inc. — has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Business Documentary. According...

Transition group celebrates full year of impact

Transition Salt Spring (TSS) Society members, board and staff gathered at Lions Hall on Thursday, April 2 for an annual general meeting that served...

Arts & Entertainment

Canadian women adorned in Homage exhibit

By MEGAN WARREN For ArtSpring Art lovers, you’re in for a treat! From May 8 to 22, celebrated gold and silversmith Donald A. Stuart brings his...

Singers choose favourites for spring concert

Salt Spring Singers members have sung a raft of songs in the community choir’s 50-plus years of entertaining island audiences. So when the choir’s new...

Concert bridges eras, genres and repertoire 

BY MEGAN WARREN For ArtSpring On Tuesday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m., the ArtSpring stage hosts a rare meeting of musical minds as the Juno-nominated Cheng²...

Photo of the Week

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Gathered before the rush for the Salt Spring Island Garden Club Spring Plant Sale begins at the Farmers’ Institute on Saturday, April 25 are, from left, Miriam Boysen, Meriel Galloway, Heather Martin, Margaret Smith and Lesley Burke.

Photo by Rob Lowrie

Do you have a photo to share for the Photo of the Week space? Send it with caption information to news@gulfislandsdriftwood.com. 

Opinion

Nobody Asked Me But: What really goes on behind the refrigerator door?

Everybody knows that living on an island is, by definition, a political act. Whether divided as north versus south, newcomer versus old-timer, working-class family...

Editorial: All in a heap

There are many levers local governments can pull to nudge human behaviour. But the ones grabbed most eagerly — and admittedly effectively — have always...

Viewpoint: Webster to run for EA job

By BRIAN WEBSTER While we’ve made progress over recent years, local government on Salt Spring still doesn’t serve our community as well as it should....

Weather

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Obituaries

ST. LAWRENCE, Desmond

November 7, 1928 – March 24, 2026 Desmond St. Lawrence was born in Winnipeg Manitoba to British parents, Harry St. Lawrence and Effie St. Lawrence...

MACAULAY, James (Jay) Franklin

June 26,1944 - April 20, 2026 Jay was born in Birkenhead, England. He came to Canada in 1964 on a scholarship to McGill where he...

More Gulf Islands news

LCC targets six of Ganges’ worst intersections

Traffic experts are proposing roundabouts be built at two of six identified intersections in Ganges, part of a laundry list of recommendations in a...

Point no longer referred to as ‘savage’

A point on a small island off Saturna will no longer be known as Savage Point, according to the BC Geographical Names Office (BCGNO)...

Mount Bruce tower to grow to 55 metres

A telecommunications project planned on Mount Bruce won’t be subject to a public consultation requirement in Salt Spring’s protocol for antenna systems, as the...

Retreat centre proposed for Musgrave property

The newest owners of a 230-acre waterfront property at the remote southwest end of Salt Spring Island hope to develop a private retreat centre...

Island groups push solutions to housing gap

When BC Housing finally craned modular units into place at its long-awaited project on Salt Spring’s Drake Road, the province — at almost the...

Cook, Hetherington, Martin win fire board election

Final results for Salt Spring’s fire district election have been released, with incumbents Rollie Cook and Mary Lynn Hetherington, along with Darryl Martin, to...

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