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Moving With Classical Music at Ganges Yoga Studio
” Enjoy each day in great big chunks and give just as much back ,” that is what I try to live by. After teaching pump primers (a coed conditioning aerobic, heart rehab class — loads of fun!!) on Salt Spring for 20 years I moved into offering guided stretch classes with Celeste at Ganges [...]
Dan Jason’s Seeds
Dan Jason ships about 80,0000 packets of seeds from Salt Spring Island to locations around the planet every year. He has eight growers on Salt Spring working cooperatively to produce hundreds of varieties of seeds, many of them old, unusual or endangered. His seeds are tried and true, tested for countless generations and adapted to [...]
The Challenges and Opportunities of Conscious Parenting
Thursday August 19, 2010 at 7:30 – Centre for Child Honouring Speaker Series presents “The Challenges and Opportunities of Conscious Parenting,” a talk by Adela Barcia. Submitted by Lara Gossett. Some of us vowed to bring up our children in a different way than the way we were raised. Even so, it is difficult to be [...]
This is our world from Salt Spring to Lesotho
We are constantly amazed at what can be accomplished as we weave threads from Lesotho and Salt Spring Island together. With the ability to travel, communicate, and commune via the internet, there is no longer a ‘first world’ and a ‘third world’ — there’s only OUR world. Help us make it a better place, community by [...]
Sign The Plea
Dear Friend of Children, You are invited to become a Signatory in a campaign of global importance. We have become increasingly alarmed by the prevalence of violence against children worldwide. We believe the times provide an opportunity for a new religious moment, in which the public and the world’s spiritual leaders act in concert in [...]
Field to Fork Dilemma
I recently returned from Tunisia. My husband and I go to a different country every year for one month. When we arrive in a foreign city, we seek out monuments, ruins, forts, churches and mosques. One by one we check off these touristic testaments to empire, war and devotion in our guidebook. We travel to [...]
The Wavy Line at Gulf Islands Secondary School
When I drag myself out of bed on a Monday morning, I can’t help but wonder how great life would be without school. As I eat breakfast, I imagine how awesome it would be to do anything I want, namely, eating chips on the couch, and watching T.V. with some friends. I often wish that [...]
Salt Spring Coffee Company’s Mickey McLeod Reflects On The Move
After announcing that his company will be moving its roasting operation from Salt Spring Island, co-owner Mickey McLeod chatted with us this past week while he was in Vancouver working on a deal to find a new location for his company’s facilities. “We don’t have a confirmed location yet, and we are not sure how [...]
The Beautiful Game Fundraiser
High in the mountains of Africa, there’s a soccer team flying the Salt Spring colours. This winter, islander Gary McNutt carried duffel bags stuffed with soccer gear to his other home in Lesotho. He distributed the gear through an organization called Phelisanong (Together We Work for Life), a group he and other Salt Springers have [...]
A Different Kind of Normal
March 18 – 2010. Losotho, Africa. I went visiting to a village nearby to Ha Makhata with the Warriors, the community outreach workers from the Phelisanong project. The work of these HIV positive Warriors is to deliver social services to the orphans and HIV patients in 14 villages. Focussing on the most vulnerable cases, the [...]
