Aqua Gulf Islands HOLIDAY EDITION 2016
Living
Volume 11, Issue 6
Spread the Cheer It's giving and sharing time on the islands
outlander Kitchen
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It's Christmas on the islands, and Santa Ship time, PAGE 12
contents 40
TANTALIZERS! PAGE 6
BOOKS
Outlander Kitchen dream comes true, PAGE 8 Murray Reiss with poems for the inner locavore, PAGE 26
Gulf Island Cribbage makes beautiful games to play, PAGE 19
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Pender jeweller Janet Blakeley loves those shiny things, PAGE 15
HISTORY
Ag Hall tells Mayne Island's story, PAGE 22 Fulford Inn remembered in saucy little book, PAGE 37
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ARTISTS
FESTIVALS
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Tania and Jose share recipes from El Salvador and Cuba, PAGE 30
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HOLIDAY EDITION 2016
Poetic gifts
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ore than 25 years ago, while trying to make myself irresistible to the man who would become my lifelong partner, I exploited all of my available talents. One of those was the ability to write a torrid love poem when moved by deep forces to do so. I can’t recall the actual words, but I do remember rolling up the piece of paper, securing it with a ribbon and giving it to Michael for Christmas. I think he was sufficiently impressed. Or at least it didn’t scare him away, which was a good sign. Poetry has been the ultimate gift on numerous occasions during my life. Sometimes reading or hearing a poem or even just a few lines is exactly what I’ve needed at a particular time. That’s one reason I thought this gift-giving season edition of Aqua was a perfect spot for a story on Salt Spring poet Murray Reiss, whose second book of poetry, Cemetery Compost, was recently published. All of the stories in this issue in fact revolve around gifts in some way. There’s Theresa Carle-Sanders’ gorgeous
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Editor’s Message
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Outlander Kitchen cookbook, Liam Johnson’s handmade, one-of-a-kind cribbage boards and Janet Blakeley’s Jems on Pender jewellery. Because it’s the Christmas season, we take a peek at two traditions, the all-islands Lions Santa Ship and the Festival of Trees on Salt Spring. One of them is many decades old and the other is running for only the third time in 2016. Island history and the power of community gathering places like Mayne Island’s Agricultural Hall and the former Fulford Inn are also celebrated, with so many activities bringing us together in public spaces at this time of year. Christmas would be naught without enjoying some of the foods we love, so this issue’s Comfort Food column by Marcia Jansen features recipes and stories from a well-known Salt Spring Island couple from two different countries: El Salvador and Cuba. Whatever your language or inclination, I hope your holiday time is enriched by some provocative, love-filled poetry. — Gail Sjuberg
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• The Salt Spring Concert Band always holds a winter-season concert at ArtSpring. Familiar Christmas chestnuts do not usually Decorated Japanese Gardens on Mayne. appear, but instead, director Dawn Hage puts together a varied program with a season-appropriate theme. This year the Dec. 9 concert is titled Colour Wheel, a celebration of music from around the world. “Some of the pieces are seasonal, such as Russian Christmas Music, Celtic Carol, Polar Express and A Christmas Festival,” explains the band’s publicity material. “Others are wind ensemble classics such as Gustav Holst’s First Suite in Eb and Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance. The band will also introduce three incredible new works to Salt Spring audiences; Lonesome Scenes of Winter by Canadian composer Joseph Curiale and Serenity by Norwegian composer Ole, both evocative, moving soundscapes, and Joy by Joseph Curiale, an explosion of colour, energy and, well, pure joy!” • This year on Saturna Island, a community hall audience will be treated to A Christmas Carol: Radio Play presented by Hoarse Raven Theatre. Vancouver and Saturna actors and musicians, directed by Michael Fera, have pooled their talents for the show, which takes place on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. It’s a fundraiser for Community Hall renovations.
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Books
From Fiction to Food
Inside Theresa Carle-Sanders’ Outlander Kitchen By CHERIE THIESSEN Photos as credited
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hat does a cookbook have to do with the popular time travel Outlander series? Now eight novels and counting, Diana Gabaldon’s runaway fantasies were also made into a television series in 2014. This definitely helped to align the stars for Theresa Carle-Sanders, a Pender Island chef, blogger and food writer. Outlander Kitchen, her first culinary publication, only came out in June 2016, but it has already sold close 18,000 copies in what is traditionally the slowest season for publishers. And that’s just North American sales; German and Polish rights have already been sold and Spanish rights are in negotiation. “They’ve shipped 30,000 books all over,” says a glowing Carle-Sanders. “This has been a big dream of mine for many years.” What are the magic ingredients to make dreams come true? “The first thing you have to have is a great idea. Then you have to work harder than you ever have before. You need to also find support from those close to you, and finally you need to be gifted with one piece of good luck that brings it all together. For me that good luck was the announcement of a TV adaptation of Outlander. I knew what I had in my head was something that every Outlander fan would want to have but it wasn’t until the TV show and all the extra fans that created that I was able to convince people. A phone call came very quickly from Random House after that first year asking, ‘Where is that proposal you have been pitching to us for the last four years?’” The result is a “must-have” hard-cover beauty with a foreword by none other than Diana Gabaldon, published by one of the industry’s largest and most prestigious publishing houses with no expense spared, beautifully illustrated with photos that raise the blood pressure, and a book cover that’s a magnet. “Rebecca Wellman’s photography is absolutely beautiful and that cover photo of hers has a lot to do with the in-store book sales. It’s a beautiful cover; it brings you over from the other side of the store.” How did the dream start, I want to know. It began with her culinary blog, Island Vittles, coming on line in 2009 and soon catching on with salivating Penderites who began to appreciate this savoury new addition to their island. “It’s an interesting story and I love to tell it because it has got a happy ending too. I read
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the first Outlander books in 2001 and loved them, but it wasn’t until 2010, while I was on a walk in the woods on Pender, that a dish from Voyager, the third book in the series, came to me. By the time I got home I had the recipe. It was Pigeon Rolls with Truffles, but I substituted chicken thighs and porcini mushrooms. So I followed my instincts and decided to email Diana, asking her permission to post an excerpt from Voyager alongside the recipe on my blog. I asked myself: ‘What’s the worst thing she can do? She can say no.’ But she didn’t. She emailed me back within 18 hours saying, ‘Wow, what a great idea. Go for it and see what happens.’ Diana was very generous and shared my recipe across her social media, which was 25 times bigger than mine, and the response was really good, so then we did another one. And then in the summer of 2010 The Game of Thrones cookbook came out!” This second piece of luck set her firmly on her path. How did those authors get a cookbook, she wondered, and soon discovered they first had a blog. Ah-ha! Time to do the same. She started a new blog, outlanderkitchen. com, with Gabaldon’s permission and soon took the next step, asking her about the possibility of a cookbook. “She thought it was a great idea, but while we were talking about that she was in negotiations with the TV deal and she couldn’t tell me any of that and kept putting me off and I was getting frustrated, but then one day in 2013 it came up on social media that Outlanders was going to be a TV show and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what the problem is’ and then I thought: ‘Oh, awesome, because almost everyone watches TV drama’ and at that point Diana had already sold about 30 million books.”
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“I came into myself as a creative person on Pender.”
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– Theresa Carle-Sanders
Above: Pizza created from an Outlander Kitchen recipe. At top: Author Theresa Carle-Sanders does some social media promotion for her book. Previous page: Scones and the fixings to make some more. Carle-Sanders' book has been named a Goodreads finalist in the cookbook category for 2016.
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So the final instalment of good luck arrived for the patient food blogger with a dream. A happy ending indeed and although it doesn’t seem the best time to enter the cookbook field, this just may be the cusp of the whipped cream for the chef who has definitely hooked into a hot new trend. “Normal cookbooks don’t sell anymore. It’s too easy to access recipes on the internet,” says well-known Pender author Andrea Spalding, who along with her fellow author husband, David, penned the best-selling Seasonings, Flavours of the Southern Gulf Islands, in 2012. “To have a bestseller you need either an international celebrity chef or a unique angle. Therese came up with the perfect unique angle on a bestselling series.” Carle-Sanders, a social media diva who can spend several hours a day on Facebook, says she has made a lot of connections on that as well as Instagram, which she loves because she is always taking pictures of her food. “I always try to put pictures of the recipes from the book up to keep it in the media. To be able to do this all from Pender Island is absolutely amazing.” In fact, it was the high-speed WiFi connection on Pender that lured her and her real estate partner, Howard, over to Pender eight years ago in the first place. That and the fact that they could afford a down payment on a Pender home; something they could never do in Vancouver. A long-time Vancouverite, the culinary author says the decision to come here was, like many of the couple’s decisions, instinctive and very sudden. “We came over to Pender on a whim and put an offer down on this house in the same day and 30 days later we were here. I can still hear my parents saying: ‘You’re doing what? And when are you doing it?’ I would never move back to a city now. I came into myself as a creative person on Pender. Being here has helped me realize my goals. There were a few times in 2013 and 2014 when I had quite a bit of despair because I had thrown so much of myself into this. If it didn’t work out I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do, but it has worked out. I’ve
done some book tours and have met lots of great fans.” While the book tours are just ramping up now, Carle-Sanders has already been on some, including one to Scottsdale, Ariz. The launch was a big affair, with 500 people flying in from all over North America. “Diana and I sat down and signed 1,100 books and we sold them all that night.” How thrilling it must have been for the newly published author to sit alongside one of her favourite authors, whose books she had devoured. The “dreamer,” who also recently had interviews on Global TV, in People Magazine and in late September was featured in the Vancouver Sun, waited 20 years before following her dream and pursuing a culinary career. At 38 she attended the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts and graduated at the top of her class six months later, initially working in local restaurants and baking for Pender’s Farmers Market before the inspiration on that walk in the woods. So as I savour the bannock she has very thoughtfully placed in front of me along with a robust, aromatic cup of coffee, I ask if it’s really a centuries-old recipe and am happy to learn that historical accuracy does not always trump in her book. “A bannock is the precursor of the North American biscuit, very close to a scone but a little less rich. It would have been made of barley as there was no wheat flour in the 18th century. And it would have been cooked in a griddle over an open fire. These ones have baking powder in them, but there is an 18th-century recipe in the book for the purists. I’ve incorporated modern techniques and ingredients so that the recipes will become family favourites that fans will serve again and again.” My last question is about selection. How did she decide which
recipes to include, I wondered. Carle-Sanders tells me that in Gabaldon’s books sometimes dishes are described in great detail, which makes her job easier, while other times a food is just mentioned briefly. That’s fine with the author too because then she can be as imaginative and creative as she likes. Because she knows the books so well, she also enjoys imagining what the characters who inhabit the pages might actually eat. Time to take my bannocks out of the oven.
More Recipes
Although Carle-Sanders no longer has the time to keep up her popular Island Vittles website that started all the buzz seven years ago, you can still find good recipes on the site — www.islandvittles.com — as well as on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest. Also visit www.outlanderkitchen.com.
Synopsis of The Outlander
For those in the dark about the Outlander craze: In 1945, just after World War II, a nurse and her husband visit Scotland on a second honeymoon. She touches a stone in one of the country’s many ancient stone circles and finds herself an Outlander, transported back to 1743 where she meets the dashing Jamie Fraser. Gabaldon has now completed eight books in this series of researched historical fiction combining science fiction, romance and food as the heroine finds herself moving in and out of time and countries: from Scotland to France, the Caribbean and North American colonies between the 18th and 20th centuries.
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A true islanders’ Christmas tradition By Gail Sjuberg Photos by Jen MacLellan
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elieve it or not, the Lions Santa Ship, AKA the Christmas Ship, has been visiting the Gulf Islands since 1955 and the San Juan Islands since 1947. As Salt Spring Lions Club member Evelyn Smith explained last year, bringing Santa to the islands was intended to spread Christmas spirit to children of the islands, who in those days lived a more remote existence than they do now. The idea originated with some Bellingham businessmen, who commissioned the use of a Sea Scouts training vessel to transport candy, toys and, of course, Santa. From 1955 to 1996, it was operated by the Bellingham Jaycees, a junior Chamber of Commerce group that first brought it to Canada. The Lions took on the project in 1997. Now, said Smith, more than 800 gifts are given to the children and seniors the Lions groups visit over two days on the San Juan Islands and the five major Gulf Islands. “Children today do get off the island more frequently,” said Smith. “But the Santa Ship helps islanders connect with their past and one another.” This year the Victoria Star 2 sails on Saturday, Dec. 10. Check with your island Lions Clubs for estimated times of arrival.
For a look back at ship visits made 50 years ago, here are two articles from the Dec. 22, 1966 issue of the Gulf Islands Driftwood:
MAYNE ISLAND By W.W. Hunt-Sowrey To the writer it seems a long time since we first heard of “The Christmas Ship” and the goodwill gesture of the Bellingham Jaycees. In fact, it is eleven years since the first call was made at Mayne, and year by year the call seems to grow in importance. It should, as it is the only international gesture of goodwill in the area, although through the year, thousands of our friends from south of the line come up to see us. However, they come as individuals, not as an organised body. As has become custom, the wharf at Mayne was crowded with many young, and not so-youngs, watching the MV “The Brookfield” tie up her lines, and listen to her cheery Christmas music. To those who had witnessed a good many of these landings, it seemed that the ship was far better decorated and far more cheery than in former years. The crew consisted of many old friends, whom we only see for this brief hour each year. In the earlier years all that happened, happened on the wharf, but, in those days, we had a wharf and a freight shed where coffee could be served. Since our wharf has been shortened, little practical can be done there so, on foot or accepting a lift from the many local cars and trucks, the motley crew, Santa Claus, Ship’s pirate and other desperate characters, and the balance of the thirty odd crew members made their way up to the island hall, to entertain the young of Mayne, and, in return, to be entertained. It would seem to the writer that, since this call is so well established, a little more preparation could easily be made to receive our visitors . . . a little music . . . a few decorations . . . to mark the occasion a little better. As they remember, and record in their Ship’s Log, Mayne had to entertain them some eleven years ago, when mountainous seas prevented the ship from sailing away. A bond was forged in that year that should not be lightly broken, and from conversation with various members of the ship’s crew, Mayne to them is one of the high spots on their itinerary. Once again, Jaycees of Bellingham, we of Mayne give you all a very hearty thanks for your visit, and trust that for many years to come we may have the pleasure of welcoming you to our island. At the same time no account of any official show on Mayne can be concluded without a sentence to carry the thanks of all to the island ladies, in this case, Mrs. Margaret Bennett and her committee, who provided the lunch to regale our visitors.
At right: Scan of a Dec. 22, 1966 Driftwood newspaper page with stories recounting Santa Ship visits to Mayne and Galiano islands. Below right: Santa is escorted by Salt Spring children during a 2014 visit, with Mrs. Claus seen behind. Previous page: Fireworks in the sky above the Victoria Star 2 as it enters Ganges Harbour in 2012.
GALIANO AND GOSSIP ISLAND NEWS
Weatherwise it was a terrible weekend, the Gulf at its stormiest, and the islands saturated with forty days & forty nights of rain. But right on the button Sunday morning the Bellingham Jaycees arrived for their traditional visit in “The Christmas Ship” and most of the Islanders turned out on the Sturdies Bay wharf to greet them. All the kids were there from nine months to ninety, and the usual wonderful time was had by all. Only sad note was that due to the condition of the north end road, the children from the north of the island could not get down, but it is understood that their toys and goodies were provided same as ever, and to be delivered.
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emember tatting? That old craft of knotting and looping lace to make it more durable for use in collars, doilies or jewellery?
The small tool that was used in the process was called a shuttle. Janet Blakeley shows me one now. It’s sharing centre stage with a large cracked quartz egg, both of them incorporated with striking effect into an unforgettable pendant. Very old and delicately engraved, this tiny antique piece is probably silver but as there is no marking on it, the artist tells me she would not sell it as such. “The engraving on it is, I would say, typical of a bygone era where everything was made with care and an eye for beauty as well as usefulness. My mother had elegant classical jewellery and so I grew up with a true love of beautiful old historical pieces and that’s what I try to do with my jewellery, combine the old with the new. I generally don’t do flashy, frivolous or frilly. I tend to create classic uncluttered work.” Blakeley’s South Pender Island home, with Boundary Pass vistas without and plenty of space to view them from within, is a perfect showcase for her work. Antiques from her mother and grandmother adorn the generous dining and living areas: a Duncan Phyfe chair, a statuesque gleaming mahogany wardrobe from her grandmother, a dining table that would be at home in Downton Abbey. She takes me to her downstairs studio, which vibrates with colour, gleams and glints. Two very smartly dressed floor dummies are wearing “knock your earrings off ” necklaces, one of them bristling with a double strand of pearly kyanite shards. I’m learning that clean lined and classical can be a real heart stopper. When I tear my eyes away from these sirens, I see other myriad necklaces, earrings and bracelets displayed on shelves, in an antique cabinet, on a modern wall hanging and inside a sculpted burl that is in itself a work of art. “I like to work with old pieces and see what I can do to make them new again. That’s really where it all started, taking old things and transforming them, so that in addition to the new pieces, there’s also history there.” What are the stories these objects could tell? Like jet, for example, a substance the artist loves to use. It’s considered a “minor” black Holiday Edition 2016 – AQUA – Page 15
“I never make things exactly the same but will do similar things if I like the look.” – Jan Blakeley
From top: Pendant using unique lion-head button; necklace of kyanite shards. Previous page, from top: Janet Blakeley with a jewellery display; various Blakeley pieces. Page 16 – AQUA – Holiday Edition 2016
gemstone, not a true mineral, but there’s nothing minor about it! Millions of years old, and derived from petrified wood from specific trees like Chile’s extant monkey puzzle tree, jet is the story of our planet made concrete. Blakeley has led me to a new appreciation of this substance and I’m beginning to look at my own jewellery with a critical eye. Now I want history as well as beauty as she enthusiastically explains that putting the old with the new makes her passion more fun and challenging, and how a large part of the process is in the decision of what bit to go with what piece. “Like those lion-head buttons. I struggled with those for some time before I had my husband, Jim, drill a hole on the top of it as I couldn’t get it to balance properly just using the shank on the back of it. I made two pendants with them. One uses tourmaline stones and a non-silver chain and the other uses labradorite with a sterling chain. I never make things exactly the same but will do similar things if I like the look.” She says silver is her metal of choice, except for her less expensive items — jewellery incorporating beach glass, for example. She explains how this love of jewellery creation began: “We were teachers in Abbotsford for 30 years and at report card time after doing about a dozen reports, I would trundle upstairs to a little bench I had and “play” with my jewellery and de-stress. Then I would write another 10, then back upstairs. It started out as a stress releaser because my teaching job didn’t have much room for creativity.” With three children fairly close in age — Kate, Claire and Christopher — it’s surprising she found the time at all. Now with four grandchildren, she and Jim spend as much time as they can spare visiting family and their four grandchildren on the mainland. The winner of the Fall Fair’s Shop Craft Guild trophy five years out of six for her jewellery says that after 30 excellent years of teaching, she feels truly fortunate to be able to visit family, to play and to create, saying that it’s way more about pleasure than profit. She passes that pleasure along to buyers who generally smile at the price tags. “I love finding things as we travel,” she enthuses. “When we were in Italy I found some blown glass balls which have since been transformed into necklaces
and earrings. Jim often finds pieces that are interesting and will bring me over to look. With his scientific background, he’s interested in rocks. My favourite class in university was geology and if I hadn’t been a teacher I’m pretty sure I’d have been a geologist. I like working with silver and pretty stones. I’m kind of like a crow. ‘That’s pretty! That’s shiny!’ Then I’ll pick them up and use them. I also like using different items like sea urchin spines, cracked quartz bases, petrified bamboo and interesting buttons, like those lion heads.” She’s also a knitting diva who was taught by her grandmother at the age of six and then got serious about it when she needed something to do with her hands on all those ferry trips back and forth from Tsawwassen to Pender in her 40s. Now she’s showing me an intricate pendant where she has combined both these passions: a complex yet light creation of knitted silver strands. “This came about because another project wasn’t quite working and one cannot just toss away sterling silver. I’ve incorporated a piece of petrified bamboo, finger pearl and amber among other stones in the knitted sterling silver wire.” Wow! It looks so substantial and yet is as delicious and light as a piece of meringue. Having struggled with trying to get the clasp on my pearl necklace closed before leaving to visit her studio, I’m fascinated with the fastenings on her necklaces. They’re substantial, easy to use and they’re a joy to behold. Blakeley sees me admiring them: “I make sure my clasps are really beautiful and part of the design. A lot of us have shorter hair and the back of the head shows, so I work at making sure that whatever’s at the back of the neck is as pretty as at the front.” Jem’s on Pender does not have a website presence, but Blakeley takes a selection of her works to the Pender Islands’ Saturday Farmers’ Market from mid-June to mid-September. She also shows at Pender’s annual July Art in the Orchard event at historic Corbett House. If at all possible, though, it’s best to visit her studio and experience the whole zen, to see all of this gifted artist’s works on display in their perfect surroundings. Best to call first. (250-629-3445). Coming from off island? Visit www.bcferries.com for schedules and accommodation packages.
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Playful Art Liam Johnson and Gulf Island CribbaGE BY ELIZABETH NOLAN Photos by Jen MacLellan
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hen I was a child my parents’ crib board was a source of mystery and fascination. The curving pathways inlaid in different wood tones and the peg holes leading down them invited play. Even though I had no clue what the rules might be, I made up my own games that made use of that artful space. These days I have only a little more understanding of the game, having played once or twice, and I never did take up cribbage as a pastime. My fascination with the playing board still remains, however, especially since seeing the handcrafted models being produced from scavenged driftwood by Salt Spring’s Liam Johnson. A quick scan of the Gulf Island Cribbage Facebook page reveals some lovely sounding possibilities, such as a red cedar board with pegs in purple lilac and mahogany, or arbutus contrasted with moose antler and yellow cedar. Johnson’s boards always include the live edge if possible, and follow the natural shape of the original material. This produces organic, flowing shapes that must be a real pleasure to move the pegs along with.
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Above: Liam Johnson in his work space on Salt Spring Island, with driftwood pieces stacked behind him. Previous page: Liam with a cribbage board and hand-made case, plus two other boards. The top one is made from arbutus wood with the other one from an unknown wood. Next page: Board crafted from a piece of oak.
“I like things with history, so driftwood to me is a really mysterious thing, because you don’t know where it comes from. It could have travelled thousands of miles — we don’t know,” Johnson observes. “It has more personality, and it’s a lot more fun playing on driftwood boards.” Johnson grew up on Salt Spring but left the island after graduating from high school. Now 27 with partner Jessica Ells and their new baby daughter Emmi, he is building a small home on his parents’ land in the island’s south end. It’s the perfect place to delve deeper into the creative practice Johnson has been refining for the past few years making his unique one-off designs. “All the wood is driftwood,” Johnson says of his crib boards. “I love beachcombing. It’s my favourite thing in the world.” “It’s also important for me to re-use as much as possible,” he adds, noting he and his girlfriend are both big thrift store fans. “We hate buying new things — we think it’s the stupidest thing in the world when there’s so much out there.” Moose antler is not fun (and possibly unhealthy) to work with but something Johnson has in good supply thanks to his five years as tree planter. Living that life of highly scheduled, intense days in the wild was an important time of transformation for the young man.
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Giving it up has been another challenging transition, but he feels he’s adapting well since moving back to Salt Spring from Victoria in May. “It’s been like we’ve been here for 10 years. It was a pretty smooth transition,” he reflects. Even though he now spends his days working as a landscaper and a painter, Johnson still has energy left for woodwork. Before making crib boards he was making other items, such as simple furniture, out of driftwood — anything he could put together with screws. “I really like using my hands. I don’t ever sit and read. I’m always keeping busy,” Johnson says. Johnson made his first crib board as a gift for a girlfriend around five years ago. He started the Gulf Island Cribbage Facebook page in 2014 and has sold a few pieces there, as well as at Christmas craft shows in Victoria. This year his work will also be available on Salt Spring at the Fulford Hall Christmas fair and at Wintercraft. “The people who are interested in crib really like them,” he says. “There’s lots of amazed faces. It makes me happy.” Beachcombing provides many different source materials, but hardwoods are the best for the drill press, which Johnson uses to make the boards’ peg holes. His favourite woods to work with are cedar and arbutus; he doesn’t like fir or maple as they’re too soft. Johnson does not run wood through the planer for
a uniform oblong shape, but sands by hand, leaving as much of the natural flow as possible (usually only adjusting the bottom for stability). When making the pegs, which often resemble fluted keys, he likes to work in contrasts, such as lighter coloured pegs for a darker board. To underline the fact that each piece is truly
which protects the wood without changing its colour. This is the outcome of previous experiments with beeswax, olive oil and shellack, among other treatments. Johnson has also made some hard leather peg cases and soft leather or suede board travel cases. For the latter, the material is sourced from
“I love beachcombing. It’s my favourite thing in the world.” unique, Johnson gives every board its own name. Crib boards can be varied sizes and shapes, although anything under 12 inches is not really playable. The average that Johnson produces is between 17 and 23 inches. “I’ve always wanted to make a crib board coffee table, because so many people say they had one that their grandpa made a hundred years ago,” Johnson says. Boards are treated with tung oil,
thrift store finds. He learned leatherwork from an artist in Victoria over three or four sessions, but says, “Leatherwork is a lot harder than woodwork. At least for me.” Johnson is happy to take up a challenge and will gladly attempt to make a custom crib board from any piece of wood that someone would like to bring him. For more information, see Gulf Island Cribbage on Facebook, or call 250-208-4942.
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Community
Mayne’s Ag Hall Preserving an island’s past while growing the future Story and photos by CHERIE THIESSEN
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he southern Gulf Islands are a treasure trove of historic buildings. The deserted old store at North Pender’s Port Washington, the stone remains of the Taylor home on Saturna’s Taylor Point and the funky Emporium in Sturdies Bay on Galiano all tell enriching island stories. What’s special in Miners Bay on Mayne Island, however, is that there is so much structural history clustered together. The homes and commercial businesses that flourished during the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1858 when Mayne’s Miners Bay was the bustling halfway stop between Vancouver Island and the mouth of the Fraser River still largely exist and are in use today, giving this small island’s history a still beating heart. Take the Agricultural Hall on Fernhill Road, for example. It was built in 1900, probably on land donated by Warburton Pike, who also donated land for the jail across the street. (That’s the infamous Plumper Pass Lockup.) The hall continues to be at the centre of many community events and traditions, not the least being the Mayne Island Fall Fair, now in its 91st year, and the Santa Ship celebrations, coming up 69. Marie Elliott, a well-respected historian and author, who is the daughter of Fred and Margaret Bennett and a third-generation Mayne Islander, shares some family memories: “My grandfather, Jim Bennett, was a good carpenter and he helped build the hall, but it was probably a community effort because there were other carpenters on the island too. In 1903 the Maple Leaf Club was formed to manage the hall up to the 1930s and then it was replaced by the Mayne Island Agricultural Society.” Around 1960 and into the 1980s, according to Elliott, there were two couples who gave much of their spare time to caring for it: Vic and Marjorie Haggart and Bill and Joanna Weeks. “Both couples donated many hours and time and work to maintaining and operating the hall.” In those early days, before the other outer Gulf Islands had their own buildings, the hall was used by all islanders. “People would come from Saturna, Pender and Galiano for the dances and the music was most often supplied by local musicians.”
“Despite the years and the wear and tear, that dance floor is still wonderful!” – MARIE Elliott
Saturna residents used it for fundraising events so that they could raise money to build their own hall, and Victoria Day celebrations and New Year’s dances were big inter-island events. According to Elliott, the dance floor was excellent: “The finely milled wood for the floor, windows, etc. were brought from Victoria. Despite the years and the wear and tear, that dance floor is still wonderful!” She remembers the dances, the wedding receptions, whist and bridge and movie nights in the 1950s with Tom Carolan coming over from Galiano with his projector. And even earlier than that . . . “In the horse and buggy days, residents would drive down to the hall, unload passengers, then proceed down to the waterfront where there was a large stable for the horses. There was a tennis court at the lower side of the hall during the 1930s. A farmer’s market is held on that space now, on every Saturday morning during the summer months.” Joanna Weeks, who still volunteers with the Mayne Island Agriculture Society, these days in charge of hall bookings, shows me an historic photograph of a work party putting in that tennis court at the lower side of the one-acre property. A newer, more modern community hall was built on Felix Jack Road in 2003, but this venerable old building still seems as busy as ever. “Why?” I asked Weeks. “Partly it’s the location,” she tells me. “It’s so central here. And it’s such a flexible space. We have up to 300 events and activities taking place here over the year: fitness classes, a dance group, potlucks, dinners, a weekly cribbage club, musical events, art shows, weddings, funerals and two theatre productions annually.” She points to the stage lighting overhead. “That’s what the lights are for.” Earlier, I had asked the same question of Elliott. “People like the old hall’s location at the edge of Miners Bay village. They can take in an event at the hall, shop for groceries, chat or lunch with friends, all within easy walking distance.” Weeks shows me through the 3,000-square-foot space. There’s a storage area and green room on the left of the stage, an office and a kitchen on the right side, and a decent proscenium arch stage. An outdoor theatre was later added and is still in use in the summer and the hall was remodelled at one stage to have modern bathrooms and the kitchen. The Mayne Island Agricultural Society, which still oversees the hall, was actually formed in 1924, and in addition to several of its other functions it’s responsible for preserving and protecting the museum, originally the gaol, built in 1896, and the Thrift Shop, which was moved over to its present location from Bennett Bay in 1972. With a mission to “encourage and promote the acquisition and exchange of ideas of knowledge among persons interested in agriculture and horticulture,” the society holds lectures, fairs, exhibitions, shows
Above: Photo of work party creating tennis courts at the hall in the early 1900s. Below: Joanna Weeks looks at the photo. Previous page: The Mayne Ag Hall in 2015.
and displays and provides the facilities for these. It also raises money, acquires funds and other assistance for promoting agriculture on the island, and preserves and protects the historical significance of the island’s heritage buildings and sites. The president, Heather Dow, is enthusiastic about the society’s growth: “We now have 45 members, five executives and seven on the board of directors, and continue to promote agriculture and horticulture through workshops, guest speakers and by hosting the fall fair. Seedy Saturday on Feb. 6 was very successful.” Historical photos festoon the walls of the hall, and in a place of honour near the entrance hangs the local quilting guild’s masterpiece, designed by Jeanne Lewis and donated to the agriculture society on the hall’s centennial: exquisite, meticulous individual pieces all created by Mayne Island quilters. Also on the wall is the 2015 Islands Trust Community Stewardship Award presented to the society in recognition of its promotion of agriculture and the fall fair, so it’s easy to see why there’s so much for the society to be enthusiastic and proud about. It’s fitting that the first place in the province to grow apples commercially should have one of the oldest agricultural halls and one of the most dedicated societies to protect it and to encourage what it stands for. For hall events, see www.mayneagriculturalsociety.com/mias/. Holiday Edition 2016 – AQUA – Page 23
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eloved Canadian icon Leonard Cohen was still alive when I interviewed Salt Spring poet Murray Reiss at his Fulford home in early November. But after Cohen’s death a week later, when his words were uttered, shared and sung for days, I was struck by an intriguing similarity. One of the most quoted Cohen choruses during that first week was this one:
“Ring the bells that still can ring/ Forget your perfect offering/ There’s a crack in every thing/ That’s how the light gets in.” - (From Anthem on The Future, 1992) If Reiss and I didn’t exactly talk about “cracks,” we did discuss how one of poetry’s most valuable roles is to activate our minds to consider different perceptions and ideas. He explains the struggle to solve “impossible riddles” — like the one he felt his Holocaust-surviving father set out for him — or the koans that Buddhist teachers give to their students. “The teacher sends you this impossible riddle and the point is not Page 26 – AQUA – Holiday Edition 2016
to solve it,” he says, “the point is to sort of break your mind open against the rock of trying to solve it.” It was the concept of one’s mind opening to let sparks of awareness ignite that made me think about Cohen’s light-seeking cracks. Reiss concedes that “break open” sounds more violent than what he intends to express. “Flowers open very peacefully, but sometimes it takes a bit more than that to open our minds. It takes something coming into the mind from an unexpected angle, but something that is not threatening; something that is kind of inviting but at the same time unexpected, and that allows the mind to open. It doesn’t have to be anything grand. It can be a new thought, a new perspective or just a new way of hearing language, of hearing rhythm.” Reiss’ poems are filled with the unexpected. They range from the gut-twistingly serious and political to the near whimsical, and can fly from one side of the spectrum to the other within a single poem with ease. I am particularly moved by one that describes a Palestinian girl whose appendix is about to burst but authorities won’t let her father drive through a checkpoint to get her to the hospital. At the same time the poet recalls his own brush with appendicitis as a 10-year-old
boy, while repelling criticism from his writing group colleagues, and Buddhist, Jewish and Arab friends, who all challenge the piece’s socio-political stances. While he is tied up wrestling with their cranky questions, the girl dies waiting in the car. Death is also a theme in the title poem of Reiss’ recently released book called Cemetery Compost, but it’s also quite funny. It opens with a frail man in a nursing home congratulating himself for outwitting death by “flicking” his mind into another still-breathing body. But then he realizes “He’s waited too long and the only available bodies,/ in this nursing home where he was abandoned to the fate/ he’s temporarily escaped,/ are at least as old and decrepit as the one he’s left behind.” In another poem Reiss cites 20 reasons he honours his balding pate, completing the clever list with “Because it removes all impediments and interference, releasing me to write
without restraint off the top of my head.” He observes how people often respond to the funny or absurd points in a poem. “There is a certain accessibility when poems present themselves with some humour. I think they are more accessible, a bit more relatable, certainly on first hearing.” The Cemetery Compost collection contains work created over several years, including what Reiss calls “zero-kilometre poems, or poems for the inner locavore.” They are poems that work with what is right in front of the writer and, since he lives on Salt Spring Island, they are in some cases a vibrant celebration of local life. Readers will recognize people, places, scenarios and events they know well. Published by Frontenac House Ltd. of Calgary, Cemetery Compost was selected as one of only four collections in its Quartet series this year. The striking cover artwork of fruits, flowers and seeds forming a wreath around
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Above: Cemetery Compost book held and T-shirt worn by author Murray Reiss. Below: Murray with baby Kaya in Toronto in 1974. Previous page: Cover of The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild. Page 26: Murray reads from Cemetery Compost at a launch event in October at the Salt Spring Island Public Library.
the back of a man’s balding head was created by illustrator and designer Geneva Haley from Alberta. Following the website advice of poet Jeffrey Levine on how to transform a pile of random poems into a coherent manuscript, Reiss did the work required and his submission was accepted. “It was like night and day from the first book,” he says. That first book was The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild, published in 2013 when Reiss was in his late 60s. Its poems explore the impact on his father of being the one member of his family to not be killed in the Holocaust. Shame, silence and trauma are dominant elements in the book, and the butterflies are dead members of his family who instruct the poet on how to live. “That book was the product of a lifelong obsession,” he says.
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“Lifelong obsessive material that is deeply deeply personal that I processed over many many years.” He was grateful to have received a Canada Council grant to work on the manuscript, but it wasn’t easy to get Butterflies published. It was rejected multiple times before and even a few more times after he honed it at a Sage Hill writing retreat in Saskatchewan led by Toronto poet Priscila Uppal. “A group of five of us were all working on manuscripts that were deeply personal obsessional material, and what is probably a record for these kind of workshops, all five of us have had our manuscripts published since then.” Butterflies was not only accepted by Hagios Press of Regina but it also won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 2013 for the best first book of poetry published in Canada that year. It took a while for the significance of the win to sink in. “Now I see all these various poets who have gone on to fairly substantial careers — if you can use that word for poetry — and so often they were shortlisted for the Lampert. I thought, ‘Hey, I WON the Lampert!’” He is now working on a third collection, tentatively titled The Dress Store at the End of the World. Reiss’ father had a dress shop in Sarnia, Ont., renowned for its oil refineries and having the most polluted air in Canada. “It’s the subject of a suit that is being pursued by Ecojustice — the right to clean air,” explains Reiss. While growing up in Sarnia, everyone was mortally conscious of the atomic bomb, he recalls. (And Reiss had even more connection to it since he was born on Aug. 9, 1945, the day of the Nagasaki bombing.) “We were worried about nuclear fall-out, but as we now know, the fall-out we should have been worried about as well was coming out of the tailpipes of our cars and the smokestacks of our refineries.” Reiss and I had talked about how people can be outraged by world events but not be aware of gross injustices, such as residential school abuse, occurring in their own backyards. “I hope that my execution on this book can match the conception of it, because it’s such a rich conception and the material is so rich. This period when I grew up was a period virtually unprecedented in human history in terms of prosperity. It was the bubble to end all bubbles.” He quotes a line from one of his poems: “The war’s dying breath blessed us all.” But he once again hints at using humour to make us think: He portrays one of the mannequins in his father’s dress shop as having endured a stint in a Nevada “doomtown” or “survival city” when mannequins were used in nuclear explosion test exercises. The scene he describes and the thought of a mute dummy survivor ending up with a cushy job in a Sarnia dress shop makes me laugh, and I am eager to see how that plays out on a page in the future. Reiss says poetry is the way he hears and processes language; something he first became aware of while studying at the University of Toronto in the 1960s. He initially conceived of himself as a playwright and was highly influenced by the Theatre of the Absurd. After a play he wrote
“it was the bubble to end all bubbles." was criticized by a university competition judge as being “hardly actable and basically silly,” he thought perhaps he shouldn’t be writing plays, and found himself exploring poetry instead, largely because he wanted to write something he could finish. “I then found out that it’s really how my mind works. When I engage with language creatively, it works as poems. I don’t have the sensibility to write short stories.” Reiss, his wife Karen — an artist who is particularly wellknown for her sculptures — and daughter Kaya moved to Salt Spring in 1979. After a Buddhism-based commune they were part of in Quebec failed, they crammed their Ford Econoline van with their belongings and hit the road, aiming “to get as far away from that painful experience as possible.” Once in B.C. they checked out various parts of Vancouver Island. Then they saw an ad for a house for sale on Saturna Island and arranged to view it. When they got to Swartz Bay, though, they discovered how few ferries ran to Saturna and thought they should rethink their plan. The next ferry was going to Salt Spring Island, so they went there instead. You might be able to guess what happened next. Yes, the first person they met was realtor Arvid Chalmers and they ended up buying a three-acre property and modest home on Vesuvius Bay Road near Broadwell Road that was perfect for Reiss’ gardening aspirations. Before Channel Ridge was developed and Broadwell became the main access point, Vesuvius Bay Road saw little traffic outside of ferry times. Kaya remembers doing cartwheels down the middle of the deserted road. Besides writing, the other dominant strand in Reiss’ life has been various forms of activism on causes ranging from climate action to human rights. That led him to take a job in Vancouver from 1988 to 1992 as provincial coordinator of Tools for Peace, a grassroots organization supporting the Nicaraguan revolution. But he and Karen returned to Salt Spring, buying land and building a house on quieter South Ridge Road where they still reside. It seems obvious that Reiss is deeply grateful for where he lives, how his life has unfolded and that he can explore and share his perceptions and his world through the language of poetry. One wonders if that would have occurred without some encouragement from American literary giant Norman Mailer. When he was 17 or 18, Reiss submitted a poem to the Evergreen Review magazine care of Mailer. “I was a huge fan of Norman Mailer at the time and he actually wrote back. I lost the letter, but I remember what it said: ‘It’s not bad, what the hell, you’re still a kid, keep writing.’ I got this the day I was going off to write my Grade 13 exam in English composition. So with quite a few fairly significant breaks, I have kept writing. I followed his advice.”
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ania Aguila and Jose Sanchez’ kitchen in their house at Saint Mary Lake buzzes with activity. While Tania prepares pupusas, a typical Salvadoran dish, her Cuban husband stirs in a delicious-smelling bean soup. Food is important to the couple who moved to Salt Spring 10 years ago. “We host international students regularly and I am always upfront that our cultural background is important to us,” says Tania. “Jose and I often talk Spanish with each other and we cook Latin American meals a lot.” Tania came to Canada when she was 15. She fled from the war in El Salvador — the smallest country in Central America — and walked with no other family members through the desert all the way to the American border. “I didn’t want to leave El Salvador, but my family had no choice. I grew up in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, and we witnessed so many atrocities. My mother was in 1976 the first of our family who left. She found
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asylum in Canada and my four sisters and I followed her. I was the last one to reunite with my mother. I had a hard time coming to Canada. It was difficult to make friends, my worries were so different from other teenagers. In the end, I connected with a lot of older people.” Jose had a happier childhood in Cuba. “My childhood was amazing,” he recalls. “We didn’t have much, but there was solidarity. People always helped each other. That all changed with the current economic crisis. People are in a survival mode and things aren’t changing for the better.” Jose grew up with music and played with the best musicians in his country. “I was part of the second best band in Cuba and we had a lot of international music students visiting us. One of these students, drummer Jack Duncan from Vancouver, invited me to come to Canada and record an album with him. That was the first time I was here.”
“Living on an island suits us. This is the closest I can get to Cuba.” – JOSE SANCHEZ During his nine-month stay in Vancouver, he met Tania briefly. When Tania travelled to Cuba as part of her anthropology/Latin American studies at Simon Fraser University, the two got to know each other better. “I brought a package for him and befriended his mother. That was a smart move,” she laughs. Jose, who played with the famous Puentes Brothers at the time, continued to fly back and forth to Canada. “I could easily travel in North America, but travelling in Europe was more complex. So the band members forced me to get my immigration papers,” he says with a smile. The couple has two children, Marcello (23) and Andrea (17), and moved to Salt Spring Island in 2006. “In my old job I commuted a lot and that took a lot of my time. I wanted to live closer to my work,” says Tania, who is an administrative assistant at Phoenix Elementary School. “We love it here. People take the time to say hi and to get to know you. Before, when we lived in White Rock, it was difficult to connect with people. Here on Salt Spring we’ve made some amazing friends and we feel part of the community.” Jose travels throughout the country and overseas with Grammy award winner Alex Cuba, but Salt Spring Island grounds him. “Living on an island suits us. This is the closest I can get to Cuba.” I was easy to buy El Salvadoran food on the Lower Mainland, but all of that changed when the family moved to our little island. “I craved pupusas, a traditional tortilla with a bean, pork and cheese filling, so I learned to make them myself, with a lot of trial and error,” says Tania. “I had never made them myself before because you can buy them at every street corner in El Salvador and it takes a lot of work to prepare them. I only make them for special occasions.” Jose’s beans, on the contrary, are a regular staple. “I got the bean soup recipe — served with rice and baked bananas — from my mom and I tweaked it a bit. I make it when friends come over, or friends ask for it when they invite us over for a potluck. On Salt Spring, I am more famous for my bean soup than for my music.”
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Women’s Hospital Corps in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. She must have been another very tough woman. There is a picture of the hotel, with the log booms and old bridge leading all the way to the Stone Church, on page 209 in Charles Kahn’s book, Salt Spring: The Story of an Island. In 1918, the post office was moved into the hotel, and run by A.J. (Pop) Eaton. The White House Hotel was eventually replaced by the White Lodge, operated by Mrs. H.C. Cullington. By 1946, the first Fulford Inn was operating on the site. It was owned by Tommy Ayres and Roy Coleman. It was also destroyed by fire and one of the small businesses that operated on the site afterwards was Cam Bastedo’s drive-In restaurant, in business from 1960-1963. Following its closure, a real estate office occupied the site for a time. The building that most of us remember as the Fulford Inn was built by Ray Simard, Gerry Bourdin, Freddy Howard and partners in 1978. It was sold in 1992. The big stone fireplace, where whole sheep and hogs could be roasted, was built by Fred Curtis. Alf Reda owned the Inn from 1995 until 2010. He undertook extensive renovations, which included a deck across the front of the building on the second floor, but the inn retained its homey feel. After it was sold in 2010, it remained empty and was demolished and trucked away as rubble on June 19, 2015. This little book is dedicated to the Fulford Inn, and all the great memories it provided. For more information about The Salt Spring Galoot, contact Roger Brunt at rbrunt@saltspring.com.
Above: Pages from The Salt Spring Galoot, written by Roger Brunt and illustrated by Nicole Hennessey. Page 37: Roger proudly holds up his colourful 12-page production.
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‘Tis the Time for Giving Festival of Trees HELPS feed the hungry For the past few years, Mollie Colson and Lynda Turner have organized a Festival of Trees on Salt Spring Island, inviting nonprofit groups and businesses to decorate Christmas trees displayed in a public area. Q. Tell us about the Festival of Trees. What does it entail and what is its purpose? A. It entails the setting up of a number of trees so that the public will come to view them and bring donations of food and money for the Salt Spring Food Bank and Copper Kettle. The trees are taken down on Dec. 30, so this gives those two agencies food and money with which to start the New Year. Q. Where did you get the idea from? A. The festival is sponsored by our Friends of Kenya (i.e. Mollie Colson and Lynda Turner). We solicit support for children overseas during the year. We organize the festival as a way of giving back to the local community for the support they give to our international projects. The idea came from Mollie. She’d run a similar event for many years on Galiano Island before she came to Salt Spring. Q. What organizations will be participating this year and how will it work? A. So far we have eight organizations participating this year: The Salt Spring Chamber and Salt Spring Tourism, Grand(m)others to Grandmothers, Thrifty Foods, CIBC, Friends of Kenya, Copper Kettle, Country Grocer and Salt Spring Quilters. There are three other organizations that we expect to participate but they haven’t confirmed yet.
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Each group provides their own artificial tree and on the morning of Dec. 2 they put it up and decorate it and put their name on it. We hope they will decorate it in a way that represents their organization. The public is then encouraged to view the trees and put their donations under the tree they like the best. On the morning of Dec. 30, Copper Kettle and Food Bank reps decide which tree has the most donations and declare that one the winner. The winner is announced through the Driftwood. Publicity for their group is the only prize. Q. Is there anything different about this year’s version? A. The location is different. The golf club no longer has the room, but the Harbour House Hotel kindly stepped up and provided the space. Also, every year we have some different organizations putting up trees. Q. Do you have a funny or interesting story to share about the first two festivals? A. Last year Mollie and I were having coffee at the golf club when we glanced up and saw a woman taking donations from under our tree and putting them under another tree. We “politely” confronted her and asked what she was doing. Why was she taking donations from our tree and putting them under the other tree? Was the other tree “her tree?” With a red
face she replied that it wasn’t her tree but she felt that the other tree looked lonely and sad with so few donations so she wanted to even it out. Q. Do you have some wonderful reliable collaborators you would like to acknowledge? A. So many. The golf club for housing us for two years, Harbour House for providing the venue for this year, Grand(m)others to Grandmothers, Country Grocer and Thrifty Foods for their continuing support of this project and all the other organizations putting up trees. Most of all we’d like to thank the community! They provide all the donations that have made this project such a huge success. Each year we’ve overfilled the food bank van and provided money to the Copper Kettle. Q. This is not the only charitable activity close to your heart, is it? Please tell us about your other passions. A. Mollie raises money for Hope International, which provides educational support for children in Third World countries. She’s been heavily involved with
Cambodia and now the Dominican Republic. She has built a number of schools and provided school supplies in both countries. She also provides goods to be sent overseas by Compassion Ministry. Lynda has been primarily involved with Kenya. She raises money (with Mollie) through a bridge tournament for hygiene kits for school girls. This year the Second Annual Mythical Halloween Party provided uniforms for Kenyan school children. In Kenya, children without a uniform are sent home from school. She also delivers layettes to the Kakamega Kenya Hospital for mothers who have nothing for their newborns. With help from SOLID and the Outreach Committee of the local Anglican Parish she has provided wheelchairs, rain collection systems, chickens, fruit trees, etc., when she visits Kenya every March. At right: A Food for Families tag on a Thrifty Foods tree participating in the Festival of Trees last year. Previous page, from top: Grand(m)others to Grandmothers group tree, and decorations on a tree put up by the Salt Spring Island Golf Club.
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