The phone rings at the appointed time for our radio interview and Dave Vollrath is calling from the side of the highway on his way to Port Alberni. The sun has just found it’s way through the clouds there, and Dave sounds relaxed and upbeat. He is headed there to record an event on behalf [...]

Whether you’ve been here for ages or are a fairly new resident to the island, it’s unlikely that you don’t know Arvid Chalmers.  He may have sold you your house or worked as your community auctioneer Perhaps you’ve heard him playing harmonica or took place in the vote that crowned him president of the Village [...]

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 [...]