Mark has been a “Sound Guy” for some 30 years. Just what exactly is a sound guy I asked? Everything from a tour manager to an audio engineer to a glorified furniture mover (in the beginning).
Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta this now island restaurant owner has lived a fast paced [...]

Danica Lundy, an honoured GISS grad of 2009 and a second year university student at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB is an impressive and captivating young woman. She now majors in painting and printmaking, with a little varsity soccer and partying on the side. Once complete in 2013 she will receive a Bachelor [...]

On July 8th 1955 Rita Dods and her husband moved to Salt Spring Island. Pregnant with her first daughter Lorraine and following her husband’s logging career Rita was clear “3 years and we are outta here!”
Now 56 years later Rita has done it all. A hard working Mama, in 1958 she took a job at [...]

We had talked about the journey for so many years that it began to feel like another adventure we would entertain and play out in our minds, never truly coming to fruition. This all changed on a beautiful early May afternoon when we decided to live out one of our many dreams and break through what [...]

2 Ladies, 32 Issues, 12 Months, 730 Days of Events, 448 Pages and 36 prematurely gray hairs later we have made it. A world of thanks to all of our advertisers, columnists and readers for making The Fishbowl such a great addition to the local pulse of Salt Spring Island in only 2 short years. [...]

When I walked up the hill to Gerda Lattey’s studio at 827 Rainbow Rd., it was a cold and partly sunny day. The bit of sun that was out danced amongst the vast curves and corners of her basalt sculptures. Although man made they seemed strangely in place in the forest scattered amongst her wide array of grinders and chain saws, including [...]