Update: suspect caught. See comments below. I was awakened this morning, as I’m sure many other Gabriola residents were, by a low flying helicopter passing back and forth over the island. As the search continues for the man who yesterday killed a 50-year-old woman and seriously injured her 18-year-old son, police have released the name [...]
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Dear heaven. A friend just called to tell us that there was a stabbing/murder on Gabriola tonight, in the Harrison Way area. Our caller said that the island is on lockdown — ferry service suspended, etc. There was mention of 15 police vehicles arriving from Nanaimo. ! Can this possibly be true on our innocent [...]
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I was at Arbutus Lumber this afternoon, to buy five screws. My wife tells me that most people buy more than the number of screws they need for a given job, so that they have some on-hand and don’t have to keep going back to the hardware store. I can’t see the fun in that. [...]
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If you went from Gabriola to Nanaimo this afternoon, you might have noticed all manner of commotion, smoke, and noise in the Nanaimo Harbour: there was a boat on fire. It seemed to be a 30-40 foot boat (though what can one tell from afar?), and there was lots of brown smoke to start with. [...]
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Update, August, 2010: The Flying Shingle reports: Gabriola Health Care Society accepts Rooks land offer. The Gabriola Health Care Society (GHCS) has accepted an offer of free land on which to build a community-owned medical clinic from Dr. Bob Rooks of Potlatch Holdings. GHC Foundation President Brenda Fowler said at a general meeting Tuesday at [...]
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Did you see this in the paper yesterday? From the Times Colonist: Mariner’s pedal-power test starts. Three years of hard work will be tested as Calgary’s Greg Kolodziejzyk pedals his high-tech, human-powered boat from Nanaimo to Port Hardy this week. The Albertan adventurer launched his red and yellow, 28-foot, custom-built boat Tuesday morning to set [...]
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(Updated July 2010) Here’s some Gabriola news from the RCMP: Gabriola – Search Warrant Executed – 691 Marijuana Plants Seized. On Wednesday March 25, 2009 the Gabriola RCMP, assisted by members of the Nanaimo RCMP, executed a search warrant on a residence in the 300 block of Berry Point Rd., Gabriola Island, B.C. in relation [...]
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