BC Housing announced through a statement on Thursday, January 20 that they have entered into a partnership with the Capital Regional District to create a new supportive housing complex on Drake Road on Salt Spring Island. “The announcement that BC Housing is constructing and funding the operation of 28 new supported housing units is great […]
Online Community Health Directory
December 12, 2021 by
A collaboration between island health providers has developed and launched an online directory resource called FETCH – an acronym for “For Everything that’s Community Health”, on Salt Spring Island. The service is available at www.saltspring.fetchbc.ca. FETCH is intended to provide a repository of easy to access information about health and social service related resources in […]
‘Where do I go, downtown?’: Salt Spring Island residents fear being homeless after hospital purchases hotel property
November 27, 2021 by
Brendan Strain CTV News Vancouver Island Journalist Contact Updated Nov. 26, 2021 7:04 p.m. PST Published Nov. 26, 2021 5:35 p.m. PST VICTORIA – The owner of an aging hotel on Salt Spring Island, B.C. has decided to sell the property and move on. The issue with the sale is that the property is currently home […]
Hotel at centre of tug of war amid Salt Spring housing crisis – Times Colonist
November 26, 2021 by
Darron Kloster Times Colonist Hotel being used to house people who used to live on streets and in the bush; hospital wants to buy it to house staff On Salt Spring Island, where housing has always been scarce, a small, aging hotel is at the centre of a crisis. Salt Spring Island Community Services desperately […]
Family Place Prenatal Education
November 25, 2021 by
For the third trimester of pregnancy Four consecutive Sundays 12:00 – 1:30 PM Jan 16, 23, 30 and Feb 6, 2022 With Angela Flegel, International Childbirth Educator and Doula 250-537-9176 or email familyplace@ssics.ca to register
