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Articles, current events and news updates written by, and for, Lasqueti Island residents.

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From Our Local Government Representatives -March 2023

Be Green Love Fest

If you love Jenny V and Mark B, you’re invited to celebrate our love for each other at the Lasqueti Community Hall, Saturday March 18th, 2023. Dress yourself in green (for the heart chakra, for Spring, for luck) and come to the Hall around 4. We’ll circle up at 4:20 ish for an untraditional wedding ceremony.

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Taco Tuesdays!!

Rachel is back!! Delicious, fresh, homemade tacos at the old post office. Come get them 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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Starting Tuesday March 14th!

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What is your go to, as a sign of spring? Those first nettles showing up to offer a foraged feast of greens? The flash of fuschia you spot on a walk, the first salmonberry flower? Or are you going to go with the lambs?

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On Lasqueti a sure indicator of spring is an explosion of amphibian activity, the frog chorus and newts on the road. There will still be an excellent opportunity to explore this ...

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REPORT FROM THE CEMETERY

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Our little cemetery could use some loving. Thirty-some years ago, a volunteer work party organized by Johnny Osland and Pat Forbes put up a new fence, which now needs some repair and added height if we want to keep the deer out.

 

I feel I must acknowledge that four of that original volunteer group, Pat and Peter Forbes, Johnny Osland and Mike Mundy, now have graves in our cemetery.

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FREE WEEKLY LUNCHES

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Since the beginning of this year, once a week we have been packing up free lunches for those in need on the island. That is continuing this March.

 

Each week the lunch times and menu choices can be found on our local Facebook sites as well as on the email list. You can pick up meals for yourself or for a neighbour at the Provide stand at the end of the fence near False Bay Provisions front gate.

DANCE & MUSIC PERFORMANCE
at Denise’s Studio

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Q. What is grading?

Grading Operations Mainroad experiences a high frequency of questions from the public concerning grading operations. This resource aims to answer most frequently asked questions . . .

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Letter from the Editor

Hello community. Over the years I have published the newsletter I have been asked “why don’t you have an editorial section?” Honestly, I do not think a community newsletter is the place for me to voice my thoughts, opinions or beliefs (there are lots of other opportunities I can discuss those on a one-to-one basis). I took on this volunteer “job” believing . . .

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March is finally here! Who else is looking forward to the end of daylight savings? A wee bit more sunshine would be welcome, that's for sure. Here are two events  planned for this month:

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