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Tenacious and Hardworking Partners Creating Pathways
Ten joined this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome Partners Creating Pathways (https://islandpathways.ca/committees/partners-creating-pathways/) team members Peter Meyer and Donald McLennan. After our Land Acknowledgment and an opportunity for participants to introduce themselves, Donald and Peter shared what “excited and delighted” them. Donald began by sharing his delight that, after a lengthy period of hibernation, Partners
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Local Community Commissioners Look Back on 2025 and Share Hopes for 2026
Eight joined this ASK Salt Spring gathering to hear from Gary Holman, Capital Regional District (CRD) Director, and Earl Rook, Chair of the CRD Local Community Commission (LCC), on accomplishments and challenges, looking back on 2025 and some of the hopes for 2026. Following Earl’s territorial acknowledgement, Gary and Earl distributed handouts to the participants
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Restorative Justice: Building Resilience for Future Generations
On Friday January 09, the Restorative Justice team welcomed young adults to join us in a conversation on how our community can aid in building resilience for our future generations. Extra special thanks to the youth that showed up! Our group started with a land acknowledgement, recognizing how we are lucky to be allowed to
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An ASK Salt Spring 2025 Retrospective
Designed to enhance community engagement, ASK Salt Spring weekly gatherings bring together diverse groups to discuss challenges and find solutions. While admittedly hard to believe, according to MP Elizabeth May, ASK Salt Spring is the only such weekly forum in Canada. In 2025, ASK Salt Spring hosted 41 gatherings welcoming numerous guests from various levels
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Connecting our Community Through Stories
We are on holiday until January 9! Please join us Friday, January 9,11-1, in the SIMS classroom next to the Boardroom, to welcome our Restorative Justice Team and continue the conversation about our youth, seeking to better understand their world as well as offering hope for their future. Hope you can join us. And, until
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Promising Primary Care News for Salt Spring
Coming This Week: Please join us this Friday, December 5, 11-1, in the SIMS classroom to welcome our Mental Wellness Initiative Team, including David Norget and Will MacPherson. Addressing the mental health needs of Salt Springers since 2021, this amazing group of volunteers and professionals, many of them with lived experience, are excited to announce
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Interested in Learning More About Co-Housing on Salt Spring?
Thirteen, including twolovely and well-behaved grandchildren,joined this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome cohousing (https://cohousing.ca/what-is-cohousing/) advocates Wendy Beatty, Bob MacKie, and Islands Trust Local Trustee, Laura Patrick. After our Acknowledgment and a chance for each of us to introduce ourselves, we learned how each of our guests had become enthusiasts for shared/cohousing, a tried and
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Hope and Resiliance for our Youth. . . Sometime it Begins with Eye Contact and a Smile
Nine joined this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome our Restorative Justice (https://www.rjssi.org/) team members Laura Dafoe and Tina Simpson. The intention of this gathering was to explore the challenges faced by our youth and how we as a community can offer them hope and resilience as they transition to adulthood. After our Acknowledgement and
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Ganges Firehall – The Beginning of an Enticing Conversation
Eleven came to this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome Local Community Commissioner (LCC) Ben Corno (bcorno@crd.bc.ca). After he offered his Acknowledgement, noting that our governance decisions should be viewed through the lens of reconciliation, each of us had a chance to introduce ourselves. The group brought a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to
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It Takes a Village. . . And, You Can Make a Difference – Donate Now
October 31 The group who came to this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome IWAV Executive Director Alicia Herbert was small but enthusiastic. We got an added bonus by also welcoming our Library Director Karen Hudson, wearing her hat as one of seven advisory committee members meeting weekly to move the IWAV Norton Road initiative