Overview of Bylaw Enforcement Meeting May 7th, 2015
 

Update on Active Pass Festival»
 

From the EDC Chair:  click for updates on the EDC Initiatives and more!
 

Listening by the Sea.  Clam Garden Restoration Project in the Southern Gulf Islands. 
 

6th annual Earth Day Beach Cleanup
Saturday, April 25, at Medicine Beach, PICA celebrated our 6th annual Earth Day Beach Cleanup. PICA thanks all the volunteers who scoured our beaches and bays for abandoned hulks of canoes, rowboats, flotsam and jetsam. Today our roads and byways look spiffy for springtime. Thanks, also, to Allison, Slow Coast cafe, coffee, bread and soup servers, and all, tall and small, who made our 6th annual Beach Cleanup day a grand success. Click on link for photo's by Davy Ripner  http://smu.gs/1HIwNzV .
 

BC Ferries seeks input on SGI's Sailing Schedules
Link to full news Release - BC Ferries »
 

Thank You to All Who Have Helped

We all owe a debt of gratitude to the hard work of the Southern Gulf Islands Recycling Coalition (SGIRC) represented by Ann Johnston (Mayne Island Recycling Society), Kim Harris (Mayne Island Recycling Society), Elizabeth Latta (Galiano Island Recycling Resources Society), Peter Grant (Salt Spring Island Recycling Depot operated by Salt Spring and Southern Gulf Islands Community Services Society), and Richard Philpot (Pender Island Recycling Society) who have helped convince the CRD Board to pass a 4 year extension to the operating budgets of the Southern Gulf Islands Recycling Depots.
You all have my sincere appreciation for helping me understand the issues involved.  

Dave Howe
Link to full news Release - CRD »
 

Exciting Things are Happening at Moving Around Pender (M.A.P.)

There are some exciting things happening at M.A.P.  Several trail projects are in the works and we will soon need volunteers to be part of a trail building crew.  We anticipate starting the first trail between the Community Hall and the Epicentre/ Nu-tu-you/ library area as soon as the water level goes down. If you are ready, willing and able to help with building trails contact: Niall Parker  map.contact@movingaroundpender.ca.

We have a long term vision of a walk-able island with multiple and interconnected trails so we can reduce car dependence and keep ourselves and the environment as healthy as possible. Since gaining the liability insurance policy through GITS, we have had some generous and community minded property owners offer to allow us to put trails on their land.  If you have a piece of property that you feel would make a good addition to a trail network we would like to hear from you. 

The bus is also moving forward, a contingent from M.A.P. went to Gabriola Island to learn more about their community bus pilot project and find what lessons we can learn from the processes they have gone through.  We were very impressed with the system Gabriola has created, the dedication of their many volunteers and their use of waste cooking oil to reduce their diesel use and locally manage their waste oil.  Their bus runs 6 days a week, is heavily and constantly used, has led to a big reduction in greenhouse gas and has expanded several times since the start of their pilot project.  We will also be heading over to Mayne Island to learn from their solution as well.  Our M.A.P volunteers hope to have a pilot project planned out for Pender in the next few months and will then approach the community to get feedback, find volunteers to help with getting the project going and gather the funds to pay for the bus, insurance, gas, etc.
We have already had a number of organizations and community members make pledges towards the bus, if you would like to make a pledge please email: bus@movingaroundpender.ca »