Tamar Griggs has been photographing her island community, passionately drawn to the people, events and changes in our villages for over twenty years now. Through her camera she has documented the fleeting moments in our lives and ultimately recorded history. The Faces of Salt Spring exhibit will be a showing at ArtSpring in the coming months. Over 300 islanders are in this series of photography and interviews, and if you are not in it, you are bound to know someone who is.

This weeks featured Face of Salt Spring is: Karen Hudson, 2005

I was born in Hasting, Michigan in the 1960s and came to Salt Spring Island at the end of the millennium, 1999. I was drawn here by the strong values in community, the environment, and education to raise my daughter Zorah, who was three.

I worked at the Salt Spring Island Conservancy for 7 years. Based on my passion for animals and their protection, I started the successful Species at Risk program in 2004: "The project has received federal funding under the Habitat Stewardship Program to protect wildlife habitat on Salt Spring Island. This work is urgent because Salt Spring Island is in the Coastal Douglas Fir biogeoclimatic zone – the rarest ecosystem in the province with the highest number of rare and endangered plants and wildlife. Over 60 provincially and federally listed species at risk are known to occur on Salt Spring Island”.

I have a MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science). I'm Chief Librarian at the Salt Spring Library that opened December 20th, 2012 to 15,000 patron visits a month on an island of 10,000! I started volunteering at our local library when I moved here in 1999, after leaving my job at the Vancouver Public Library.

I only read real books, but the library has over 30,000 online eBooks and audiobooks available for free to its patrons. I don't care how you read, just read!

Do you ever dream of writing a book? Absolutely, maybe when my daughter leaves the rock to pursue her own passions.