Have you seen the new book by Phillip Vannini? … the ethnographer and Gabriola Island resident has travelled to every small community serviced by ferry on the coast, clocked 250 ferry rides and conducted some 400 interviews with ferry users on their relationship with the system. Vannini, a Royal Roads University professor, has formalized his [...]
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We visited the Nanaimo Cemetery a while back, and came across George Taylor’s grave. Does his name ring a bell? George was a Gabriola pioneer, and Taylor Bay is may have been named for him. Here’s a photo of his tombstone:
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Remember reading about the made-on-Gabriola stun gun last year? Here’s an update from the Daily News: Inventor charged for personal zap device. The inventor of a high-voltage handheld stun device goes before a judge today in a legal battle over whether the device is a dangerous weapon. Gabriola Islander David Norman faces a charge of [...]
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Gabriola writer Iain Lawrence has won another award, which won’t surprise you at all if you’ve read his books. The Canadian Children’s Book Centre announces: Iain Lawrence wins the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature. Toronto – November 2, 2011 – Last night in Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre, the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the [...]
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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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A short drive around Gabriola will remind you that we’ve got an election coming up: Eric Moeller has campaign signs here and there, and Jordy Alexander has lots and lots of signs up. (Odd, though, that Jordy didn’t respond when the Flying Shingle asked him for information. I wonder what’s up with that.) Now look [...]
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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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Here’s the list of people who are running in the fall 2011 election. For the position of RDN rep for Gabriola: Jordy Alexander Howard Houle (website: howardhoule.wordpress.com) Eric Moeller (website: www.gabriola.org/moeller) For the positions of Islands Trust Trustee for Gabriola: Jeremy Baker (Jeremy is no longer running for this position.) Sheila Malcolmson (website: sheila-malcolmson.ca) Maggie [...]
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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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The Gabriola Sounder has identified the victims of the stabbing yesterday: Nanaimo RCMP Forensics are presently examining the scene at Harrison Way, where Elaine Schwartz, age 50 and her 18 year old son Trevor Schwartz were found. Trevor was airlifted to Victoria General hospital and is recovering from his injuries. He regained consciousness earlier this [...]
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Gabriola’s 707 Acre Community Park will have official trailmarkers soon. People who are in charge of safety-related things on Gabriola say we need them, and the Gabriola Parks and Open Spaces Advisory Committee has come up with trail names to put on the signs. (Flying Shingle article: Parks committee proposes trail names. Gabriola Sounder article: [...]
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Who are those people who throw cigarette butts out their car windows when driving along North Road – and elsewhere on Gabriola, too? What on earth are they thinking? I’ve always wondered. Today I saw a driver do this, and was surprised to see the name of a local business on the back of her [...]
You’ve seen adults riding distinctive tricycles all over Gabriola, I’ll bet. Georgi makes those trikes. He rides one, and so do a whole bunch of other cyclists on the island. Today the Vancouver Sun has an article about this trike and its creator: Power-assisted tricycle helps disabled get moving. Georgi Georgiev has designed a new [...]
Most days, the world of the northern English mining village where my father was raised seems ungraspably distant from Gabriola Island. I sit at my desk, looking out at the cedars towering over the first flowers of late-arriving Spring, and struggle to imagine the hard rows of company houses on the numbered streets of Horden [...]
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Update: the young man has been found, and is fine. Whew! (Link to relevant blog post at island blog removed, as the blogger there has deleted the missing person post.) If you live on Gabriola, perhaps you could keep an eye out for a young Gabriola man who’s gone missing. Details about him, including his [...]
Phillip Vannini lives on Gabriola, and teaches at Royal Roads University in Victoria. Here’s an article from Goldstream News Gazette about a project of his: Plugging into the unplugged. A Royal Roads University professor is plugging into the unplugged world of people living off the grid after receiving a $500,000 research grant. RRU school of [...]
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From the Daily News: Friends of Michael Brophy hope justice finally served. Friends of the late Michael Brophy applauded the B.C. Court of Appeal for a decision to order a new trial for two men acquitted of manslaughter in the harrowing and notorious death of the young Gabriola Island man. [continue]
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We’ve had more cold than we expected on Gabriola lately. It’s a shock to us, especially since our dahlias were blooming two weeks ago. We see callow young ‘uns taking short-cuts through the Gabriola forest wearing things that can’t possibly be warm enough. I don’t know these kids, but I want to wrap them in [...]
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