In addition to the typical “business as usual” service contract renewals there are a few noteworthy ones. Our agreement with the CRD to operate the recycling depot has now been officially renewed to 2019.  The terms and payments have been kept the same as past years, with the exception of the elimination of a $ […]

The Core Inn underwent an interesting review of it’s energy efficiency which included such high-tech processes of photographing every wall with an infrared camera and conducting a blower test to discover air leakage. We included a teaching component in the process for a group of Gulf Island Secondary students. The report has just landed on […]

SSICS will receive $ 100,000 for each of the next two years from United Way of Greater Victoria. This is a significant reduction from past years, and it required some quick and difficult analysis to determine where the funding would be best allocated. We determined that a simple formula of $ 75,000 for Mental Health […]

  With our garden activities off and running for the season we have undertaken an updating of the communications strategy including a new name and image. As this program area has expanded we have moved from “Food Bank” to “Food Security” to “Food Programs” (all rather bland) to a more interesting name “People Roots: Growing […]