Hey, look – two Islands Trust candidates have invited Gabriolans to meet them for coffee and a chat. Here’s the schedule: Sheila Malcolmson: Friday, November 4th: Mad Rona’s, 4:30 to 6 pm Saturday, November 5th: Robert’s Place, 2:30 to 4 pm Tuesday, November 8th: Harvest Thyme, 2:30 to 4 pm Saturday, November 12th: Silva Bay, [...]
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For our Gabriola friends who’ve never been on the island at the end of October, I post this guide. This is what you do on Hallowe’en here, this is what you do:
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If you care about trails and trail access on Gabriola, you’ll know about GaLTT. They are the Gabriola Land and Trails Trust, and here’s what they’ve been up to since 2004 (according to their website): We are close to completing our drive for public-access trails from Drumbeg to Descanso, and our work breaking new trails [...]
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I read about Occupy Wall Street before it started, and wondered how that would go. Well, now it’s huge, and there are Occupy Together movements all over the place. I wasn’t surprised to hear about Occupy Vancouver, though I didn’t expect Occupy Nanaimo to attract 400 people. And Gabriola? Well, I thought to myself. Surely [...]
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Here’s some great news for Gabriola trail users from GaLTT: Tuesday, October 18 at 1pm, GaLTT will sign its first trail licence agreement GaLTT will celebrate the signing of its first trail licence agreement, allowing public access on a trail through privately held forest land off Barrett Road. GaLTT and the Cornish family will sign [...]
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The Gabriola Thanksgiving Studio Tour will be this coming weekend. (October 8th to 10th, 2011.) Are you going studio-hopping? For hours, addresses, and information about artists, see the View By Studio Number page on the Gabriola Arts Council website.
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Did you go to the Gabriola Fall Fair, kids? We did. It was a blast! I liked the goats best, and would have taken them home if they’d been adoptable and if I had room in my life for goats. But they weren’t and I don’t, so oh well. In the animal section, we came [...]
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This is from the Islands Trust: Gabriola Island Official Community Plan Village Core World Café Workshop You are invited to attend a Workshop on developing new policies for the Village Core as part of the Gabriola Island Official Community Plan. The Workshop will be in a World Café format, with three opportunities for in-depth discussion [...]
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Gabriola’s Fall Fair will be at the Gabriola Commons this Sunday, September 18th, 2011, and it does sound like fun. If you’re in the mood for competition, enter your veggies, flowers, food, crafts, or animals into the various categories of contests. Just want to hang out and have fun? Here’s the schedule: 9:00 to 10:30 [...]
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Here’s something to consider if you plan on taking the ferry between Nanaimo and Gabriola this weekend. BC Ferries says: Please be advised that high traffic volumes are expected between Nanaimo and Gabriola Island due to the Gabriola Theatre Festival held on the island from August 19 to 21. Customers are encouraged to travel to [...]
Theatre-lovers are likely to be happy creatures on Gabriola this weekend, considering the Gabriola Theatre Festival and all the stuff on the schedule. (Just, um, forget about avoiding crowds, driving on Lochinvar or finding parking at Folklife Village.) I don’t know who’s been doing the promotional stuff on behalf of the festival, but these folks [...]
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This is one of the unusual characters hanging around at Folklife Village this week. I think there are three, but who knows? Maybe more have appeared since I went by. A sign outside Gabriola Artworks explains: Demonstration of life-size casting by sculptor Linda Richter. Saturday August 20th, 10am. To promote the Gabriola Theatre Festival. local [...]
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Oh look, the Gabriola salmon barbecue signs are up. You like these fish signs better than those fish signs? The barbecue this year will be on Saturday, August 13th, by the way. (4-8pm, Gabriola Community Hall.)
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By way of follow-up to my article regarding the 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion: The Nanaimo Daily News today reports that the memorial at the foot of Milton Street has been refurbished. I visited it only last Thursday, and saw no sign of recent work on it compared to earlier photographs, so am intrigued to see [...]
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Now here’s something you might want to attend this Saturday (May 7th, 2011) morning at the Agi Hall: a presentation about the geology of Gabriola Island. Nick Doe and Steve Earle are the speakers, and they’ll be followed by a panel discussion on disaster preparedness. The event is organized by Gabriola Emergency Social Services.
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This year’s Gabriola Easter Egg Hunt will be on Sunday, April 24th, at the Gabriola Commons. Starts at 1pm. The hunt is being run by volunteers from the Gabriola Rod, Gun, and Conservation Club. Hunting eggs, hunting deer… all in their mandate! ;-) I don’t think kids get to shoot the eggs, though.
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[On Gabriola we have GALTT (Gabriola Island Land and Trails Trust); the Nanaimo equivalent is NALT - the Nanaimo and Area Land Trust.] If you’re interested in edible native plants, tomorrow’s NALT event might be of interest: they’re putting on a Wild Foods Festival. (At Bowen Park Centre from 11 am to 4 pm on [...]
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If you’ll be on Gabriola this weekend, here’s something you might want to attend: the Silva Bay Shipyard School’s Launch Festival. Who can resist traditionally-built boats?
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