by OceanColleen | Feb 28, 2024 | Community, Food Security, News
Thirty people came out last Sunday afternoon, Feb 25, 2024, to a pruning workshop in the Commons orchard, led by Betty Kehler and Lynn Bowerman. Gardeners with the three allotment gardens associated with the Commons, plus members of the Commons Farm Team, they also... 
by OceanColleen | Jan 24, 2024 | Community, News
By Heather Menzies Picking up garbage, clothing, cooking utensils and assorted camping gear from (illegal) encampments on the Gabriola Commons has evolved into a twice weekly patrol in recent months. In the minus-10 cold of a recent Saturday morning (January 13), I... 
by OceanColleen | Sep 19, 2023 | Community, News
Over a thousand people turned up on Sunday, Sept. 17 To wow over the giant beet and other produce in the exhibition area To show off their dogs in the hugely popular dog show (where 100 or more dogs strutted their stuff) To browse and buy stuff at the many vendors’... 
by OceanColleen | Sep 1, 2017 | Community, Food Security, News
Note: Bring entries from 8to 9:30 am to the west side of the goat barn (follow signs) CLASSES CLASS: SCARECROW The Originality, Beauty, Humour, and Scariness of the entries will all figure in the judges’ appreciation. Note that some Gabriola scarecrows live on after... by OceanColleen | Sep 25, 2014 | Community, Food Security, News
FLOWERS Miniature garden (youth 1st Tansi Robinson 2nd Aylan Vincent Hon. Mention: Moira Wishinski adn Annie Wishinski Fair Day mixed arrangement 1st Veronica Hartman 2nd Sue Boulton 3rd Dee Perkins Hon. Mention: Jackie Hexley 3 diff. varieties of same 1st Dee Perkins... 
by OceanColleen | Feb 25, 2009 | Community, News
What a party we had. At the Commons on Saturday, August 1st, over 100 quilt squares were painted by enthusiastic members of the Gabriola Community. There were tiny children along side elders, all splashing, scribbling, drawing, or painting with slow exquisite care....
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