Salt Spring Island News

Eating together as a family not only leads to healthier eating, but it also leads to better communication skills and a stronger bond with one another, says Ginny Love, whose cookbook Simply Love is full of family-friendly recipes.

If there's an award for B.C.'s best new tourist attraction, Sidney's Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre is a shoo-in - except for one thing.

Saltspring Air estimates 2,400 passengers will be affected by a plan to divert flights during the Olympics.

I suppose every part of Bowen offers drivers a chance to drive dangerously. One of my favorite spots is the place where Miller's Landing Road meets Scarborough Road.

Ia ve collected a few knives over the years...my bread knife, my filleting knife, various paring knives, a cleaver, and a bunch of knives commonly known as chefa s knives, the all-purpose sort that can be used for most chores in the kitchen, slicing, cutting, chopping.

From the familiar log model to Swiss chalets and Swedish friggebods , cabins are the simplest of structures, made from local materials in forms that respond to climatic and cultural needs.

The Contenders, featuring Canadian singer and songwriters Valdy and Gary Fjellgaard are touring the Okanagan and Interior during George Ryga Week in B.C. On Sunday they will be at The Barking Parrot and on Tuesday at Summerland's Centre Stage Theatre.

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOING TO FUND AN INCORPORATION STUDY FOR SALT SPRING ISLAND WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

One thing you could count on like clockwork in the Cowichan good deeds calendar is the annual Cowichan Hospital Auxiliary Bazaar.

The Ladysmith Rotary Men's Fashion Show & Auction on Oct. 2, 2009 was a great success and enormous fun for all who attended .

Just recently I found myself in British Columbia, checking out the wares at the Tuesday Farmers' Market in the meadow beside the United Church in Ganges, on Salt Spring Island.

TRURO The Town of Truro is looking for a new fire chief. An advertisement for the position appeared in Saturday's Truro Daily News.

Robert Bateman's art show and presentations is tomorrow in the Carousel Room at Western Fair grounds.

It's a rare and fine thing when a new voice arrives, fully realized, on the music scene.

Niagara artists Susan Wintrop and Arnold McBay work in different mediums but have a combined exhibition at the Burlington Art Centre until Nov.

While mass strandings of Humbolt squid on Vancouver Island's west coast have made headlines around the world, the east side has been spared from the voracious predators, which can be up to seven feet long.

Six passengers aboard a Salt Spring Island Transit bus were treated for minor injuries following a Monday morning collision on Fulford-Ganges Road at the top of Lee's Hill.

If a corporate sponsor doesn't step up soon, Canadian authors risk losing one of the top awards honouring non-fiction work in the country.

Alice Munro, shown in 2004 at the Giller Prize dinner in Toronto, is nominated for a Writers' Trust award for Too Much Happiness.

Savoy cabbage leaves don't stand up well to extreme heat. Those are the kinds of things you learn when you're Arthur Black, and you're posing in a dress of vegetables on the hottest day on record for a photograph for the cover of your new book.