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ASK Salt Spring – ALL ABOUT FOOD March 2024

ASK Salt Spring – ALL ABOUT FOOD March 2024 With over 20 participants, the ASK Salt Spring meeting on “All About Food” got underway at 11:00 AM at the SIMs Board Room. This week’s moderator was Sheila Dobie, Co-Chair of the Salt Spring Island’s Farmland Trust. Guest speakers included Jon Cooksey, a Board member of the SSI Farmland Trust, Pam Tarr, Advocacy Lead with Transition Salt Spring (TSS), and Jason Roy Allen, Co-owner of the Hen and Hound Brasserie and incoming President of the Salt Spring Chamber of Commerce. In addition to local producers, food security advocates and interested citizens, in attendance were CRD Director Gary Holman, Local Community Commission (LCC) member Brian Webster, Island Community Services Executive Director Rob Grant, Damian Inwood with CHiR FM, and Natasha Kong, TSS Communications Lead. After the introductions, Sheila gave the territorial acknowledgement based on a poem written by Victoria, BC, poet Zoe Dickinson. Jon Cooksey spo…
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Join us this Friday for a conversation about Food!

Come join your friends, farmers, and anyone who loves to eat for a dynamic conversation with the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust and others working on food security. We’ll be at ASK Salt Spring from 11-1 on Friday to talk about what we need to do to make sure we have enough healthy and delicious local food to eat no matter what happens in the crazy world beyond our shores. Bring your questions and ideas! Here are a few of the topics that are on the menu: The Food Summit – hear about the exciting new connections, conversations and island-changing projects that have come out of the Summit! 50 Farms – we’ll be announcing a sizeable grant to jumpstart our 50 Farms project with a focus on emergency preparedness, in coordination with the CRD and based on its POD system. Includes ideas about finding, funding and mentoring new farmers, and developing local, walkable food sources for everyone on Salt Spring. Easy ways to eat local – localsalt, Free Rangers, restaurants and…
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Islands Trust Council has Approved the 2024/25 Budget

LÉ™kĚ“ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C. – Islands Trust Council has approved the 2024/25 budget for the Islands Trust. "In navigating development of the 2024/25 budget, trustees faced tough decisions and found compromises,” said Islands Trust Council Chair Peter Luckham. “This budget allows Islands Trust to progress work on strategic initiatives that are important to communities. We are so pleased to have secured more than $830,000 in grant funding for next year.” The approved budget for 2024/25 of $10.98 million assumes that Islands Trust will maintain existing service levels, support a new Accessibility Committee, and undertake land use planning projects including: -Housing Needs Assessments (for all local trust committees) -Housing Strategy Action Plan Implementation Project (includes updating the Housing Options Toolkit) -Denman Island Housing Review Project -Gabriola Island Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw Comprehensive Review Project -Mayne Island Housi…
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Young Adult Mental Health Unit established at Royal Jubilee Hospital

Victoria — A new Young Adult Mental Health Unit at Royal Jubilee Hospital is providing specialized and age-appropriate care for young adults experiencing acute mental health challenges. In response to a growing number of younger people experiencing significant mental health episodes needing hospital-based care, Island Health began to reconfigure an existing general psychiatry unit that served all ages to focus on specialized mental health care for youth. The reconfigured, 16 bed unit opened November 20, 2023, in a phased manner which allowed existing patients to complete their hospital stays. “There’s nothing more important than helping young people recover and rebuild after a mental health challenge or crisis,” said Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. “This new unit at Royal Jubilee Hospital will help ensure we provide integrated, holistic services that meet the needs of young adults on Vancouver Island. This is one more tool we are using to ens…
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ASK Salt Spring meeting with Gary Holman, CRD Director & Brian Webster, LLC Commissioner

ASK SALT SPRING – MEETING MINUTES 8 MARCH 2024 On March 8 th , twelve joined the ASK Salt Spring gathering at SIMs to meet with Gary Holman,CRD Director and Local Community Commissioner, and Brian Webster, LCC Commissioner. The meeting was facilitated by Grant Fredrickson, the new Events Coordinator for ASK Salt Spring. Grant is a member of the Salt Spring Community Alliance and will be facilitating the gatherings until Gayle Baker returns next month. Brian gave the territorial acknowledgment and expressed on behalf of the group the long-term commitment toward reconciliation to repair past harms to First Nations and ensure these are not repeated in the future. Gary and Brian were then invited to introduce themselves and hopes for the LCC.Brian said that he is a newcomer to politics and that he has a long list of issues that he hopes to address before his time with the Commission is over in two and a half years. Gary clarified that while the terms for Commissioners are…
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BC Ferries: Discount Fares Available

MORE DISCOUNT FARES AVAILABLE VICTORIA – Customers can expect to have more opportunity – and more choice – in booking discounted fares to travel with BC Ferries from April 1 onwards. More than double the amount of people travelling between Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island will now benefit from discounts by booking Saver fares. In addition, cancellation fees are being reduced for Prepaid and Saver fares to give passengers more flexibility should their plans change. New savings will be offered to customers or families who carpool and book in advance, or who take alternative modes of transportation, helping make it less busy at the terminals. Specifically, savings will increase for those who book a Saver fare and are travelling together in the same vehicle. Also, a new Foot Passenger Saver Fare of $15 is being introduced for select sailings, when booked and paid for in advance. “By offering more discounts for those who book and pay in advance, we expect less conges…
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Wanted Person: Tyler Pascal - Arrest Warrant for Numerous Charges

Salt Spring RCMP are asking for the public’s help to locate 27-year-old Tyler Jordan Pascal on an arrest warrant for a variety of charges. Tyler Pascal is wanted for a variety of offences including; Impaired Driving Causing Bodily Harm, Dangerous Driving Causing Bodily Harm, Resist Arrest, Mischief Under $5000, and two counts of Assaulting Police Officers. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Tyler Pascal is asked to contact the Salt Spring RCMP at 1-250-537-5555. Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stopper by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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ASK Salt Spring Welcomes Andrew Gaetz, Operations Manager of Emcon

March 1, fifteen joined this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome Andrew Gaetz, Operations Manager for Emcon, our road maintenance contractor. After our Territorial Acknowledgement, we asked Andrew what excited and delighted him. He immediately responded that he was very pleased that the recent vacuum sweeping of Ganges had gone so well, with only a few parked cars impeding the much-needed sweeping of our village streets. Also swept was an area of grave concern for cyclists: The barriers along the curves of Lower Ganges Road north of Booth Canal Road. Emcon is contracted to sweep all major Salt Spring streets by May 15 and minor roads by June 15. This February 22 sweeping, requiring a large vacuum sweeper brought over from Vancouver Island, was over and above Emcon’s sweeping requirements. When Andrew was acknowledged for this unexpected gift, he commented that he fully-understood Salt Spring’s commitment to active transportation and was happy to do what he can to free our s…
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Set A Place for Stqeeye’ - Salt Springers step up to support indigenous land acquisition campaign

Spurred by growing community interest in supporting the Mi tse’ t’akw’ (Coming Home) campaign to acquire 10 acres of land as a new home for the Stqeeye’ Learning Society, the Set A Place for Stqeeye’ program for gatherings, dinners and local events has been launched. Community groups, neighbourhoods and friends are invited to gather together to help bring the Quw’utsun (Cowhichan) people back to their ancestral lands near Xwaaqw’um Village (Burgoyne Bay) for the first time in over 150 years. Groups can participate by planning a gathering in whatever way they most enjoy - with friends, a meditation group, yoga class, book club, church group, hiking club or a larger gathering of an organization - and making a donation of whatever size the group feels comfortable with. Planned events can be registered at tinyurl.com/stqeeye, and Stqeeye’ will lend support for the event, including informational materials, stickers with the beautiful campaign logo and a link to videos that can…
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Salt Spring Island celebrates International Women's Day

Salt Spring Island celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD). This year’s IWD theme is Inspire Inclusion. Leading up to IWD on Friday, March 8th, here are some opportunities to learn about how we can forge women’s equality. Collectively we can all inspire inclusion. Like every year, women are well represented at The Salt Spring Film Festival (March 1-3 at the Gulf Islands Secondary School). There’s no shortage of films about women, plus more than 50 percent of the films are directed or co-directed by women and twelve of the twenty film guests are female. Opening night stars Aitamaako'Tamisskapi Natosi Before The Sun. An intimate and thrilling profile of Logan Red Crow, a young Siksika woman in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territory, as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world: the Indian Relay. On March 7th, The Salt Spring Island Public Library hosts, in collaboration with the Canadian Federation of University Women, the screening of “The Ma…
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