Islands Trust 2012-2013 Budget
This is the news from the Islands Trust today: Islands Trust 2012-2013 Budget Now Available Online For Public Input
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MapIT: new online mapping system from the Islands Trust
This looks like fun! A press release from the Islands Trust explains about their new online mapping system:
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Islands Trust – new executive
Here’s the news from the Islands Trust: At its first meeting since the local government elections, the Islands Trust Council elected a new Executive Committee. During the Wednesday afternoon session, the nominees answered questions from council members about the skills and values they would bring to the Executive Committee. On Thursday morning, council members chose [...]
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Gabriola election results
Islands Trust – Gabriola election results: Elected: Sheila Malcolmson: 1162 votes Gisele Rudischer: 825 votes Not Elected: Maggie Mooney: 730 votes Source: Islands Trust elections result page. RDN election results: Elected: Howard Houle – 781 votes Not elected: Jordy Alexander – 573 votes Eric Moeller – 158 votes Source: RDN’s Declaration of Preliminary Results page. [...]
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Where to meet Islands Trust candidates
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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The Gabriola election campaign
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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Gabriola candidates for upcoming election
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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Your chance to represent Gabriola!
If you want to be an Islands Trust or Regional District of Nanaimo representative for Gabriola, this is your chance. File your nomination papers by October 14th, get people to vote for you, and you’re set! Our election day is Saturday, November 19th, 2011. Successful candidates will serve a three-year term. According to the candidate [...]
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Gabriola Village Core Workshop
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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Dear Islands Trust, Gabriola Office
Dear people at the Gabriola Office of the Islands Trust, The Islands Trust mandate is to preserve and protect the area and its environment, and I like that just fine. But today it seems that you’re stumbling a bit when it comes to preserving and protecting your land on North Road. You know that Gabriola [...]
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Nature Trust on proposed density bank for Gabriola
From the Daily News: Nature Trust voices displeasure. The Nature Trust of B.C. is crying foul over a proposed density bank on Gabriola Island that could affect where development is allowed. While there is no actual cap on how much land can developed on Gabriola, the Gulf Islands Trust keeps tight control on how land [...]
Gabriola Health Care Clinic site approved
There was a meeting on Gabriola a day or two ago about the proposed medical clinic location. Did you go? I didn’t, and have been wondering how that meeting went. Today I happened to notice a new sign on the window of the Gabriola Health Care Society’s fund-raising office in Folklife Village. It reads: It’s [...]
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Gabriola Island meeting: Riparian Area Regulation
The Islands Trust announces that Gabriola will host a community information presentation next week. Topic: Protecting Fish-bearing Streams: the Riparian Area Regulation. Date: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011. Location: The Roxy, 560 North Road, Gabriola. Presenter: Michelle Jones, Mimulus Biological Consultants Qualified Environmental Professional. Blurb: Michele will talk about her role as a QEP, ensuring any [...]
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Gabriola, bulk water extraction, and the Islands Trust
Last week the Gabriola Sounder reported that the Islands Trust recommends a ban on commercial extraction of groundwater. Now the Dailiy News has a story on this, too: Islands Trust wants province to look at groundwater regulations. I thought you might like to see Sheila Malcolmson’s letter to the province, which seems to be the [...]
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Trust and dis-Trust
You might be interested in reading this article on the Gulf islands and the Islands Trust published by BC Business. Given that it’s a business magazine, and the article is in their real estate edition, one presupposes a certain point of view… A Matter of Trust: B.C. Gulf Islands Real Estate
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Pay hike for Islands Trust trustees
When election time comes around, are you ever tempted to run for the position of Islands Trust trustee? (Gabriola’s current trustee is Sheila Malcolmson.) If you’re interested in running next year, you might like to know that the renumeration for this position is to be raised to $17,615 per year – up from $10,200. This [...]
Findings promote new land targets for Gulf Islands
From the Gulf Island Driftwood: Findings promote new land targets. Increased landowner stewardship is needed if there’s any hope of preserving the natural health and biodiversity of the Gulf Islands, according to findings contained within a draft version of the Islands Trust Fund’s new Regional Conservation Plan. More than 75 per cent of the Islands [...]
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Derelict vessels and marine conservation area
Gabriola has had problems with abandoned boats from time to time – vessels left rotting in the harbour or on a beach. How to deal with this problem? And what else can be done to protect the marine environment around Gabriola? The Islands Trust has been working on these issues. Today they wrote: Two key [...]
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