The Gabriola Community Health Centre (AKA medical clinic) is almost finished. Have you seen it lately? Wander up to the end of Church Street if you’d like a peek. (Quite a change of scenery since they first cleared the land.) This project is attracting media attention — we’re the little island that could, and the [...]
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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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The Daily News notes that some people on Gabriola don’t think we need to build a medical clinic on the island. The paper points out the new blog that Shena Meadowcroft and Tony Gibson have started: Proposed Gabriola Clinic – Concerns, Facts & Questions. (The Flying Shingle told us about this blog yesterday. I’d link [...]
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Gabriola’s medical clinic will be built on this site, assuming everything goes according to plan. It’s at the end of Church Street, past the Gabriola ambulance station.
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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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