Thursday, March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024

Island Life

Chefs’ farm tour leads to new vision for meat

Salt Spring-raised meat has definite cachet for local gourmands, but the health and taste benefits of small-scale farming don’t always translate to mass exports. Adding...

Remembering Salt Spring’s first Pride parade

The following was read by 2019 Salt Spring Pride parade marshalls Corrie Hope Furst and Wendy Judith Cutler at the Sept. 7 rally on...

Couple cycles around the world

Martin and Kathy O’Neil just got home from a bike ride. That might not be the most exciting news at first glance, but when...

Plane wreckage confirms fate

Seventy-five years ago this week, a Royal Canadian Air Force plane was lost off Saint-Malo, France with all seven crew members on board. The...

Rangers absorb island experience

Ruckle Park had some not-so-usual company last week with members of the Canadian Armed Forces and a number of youth from distant spots in...

Haitian beekeeper learns from Salt Spring trip

The dream of self-sufficiency is one step closer for Salt Spring Island-based NGO Hives for Haiti, as a Haitian beekeeper and partner in the...

Islander releases second book

Salt Spring’s Aidan Cassie will share her second children’s book with the local community with a reading and launch party for Little Juniper Makes...

Underwater photographer brings home prizes

A Salt Spring photographer came home with three top prizes from this year’s Digital Shootout competition held in the Cayman Islands. Ann Donahue was...

Horse camp teaches skills

Kids on Salt Spring have a chance to learn to ride a horse in five days this summer, with camps being offered by the...

Gallery: Summer solstice shines light on our island

This year’s Day in the Life of Salt Spring Island shoot landed on the summer solstice — June 21 — and the weather was...

Weather

Salt Spring Island
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