August's Our Isle&Times is in your mailbox...

August's issue is packed full of timely & important information and updates, as well as fun and games that you simply won't want to miss!

Thanks to JP and Vienna June, you can reminisce about this year's Arts Fest in full colour, right beside another month of beautiful Festival of Lasqueti Art.

The most important part of the new Ferry Contract between BC Ferries and Western Pacific Marine is unveiled in print at long last, and BC's Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MOTI) has sent us details about the timing of Dust Control for Lasqueti, as well as important contact information for anyone that wishes to follow up.

Meanwhile, the Islands Trust continues to lurch to new lows and the cover is loaded with their latest.

Our Regional Director recently made a public statement about Our Isle & Times' reporting of the qRD and LIVFD budgets and that conversation continues with many important questions arising.

Another Special-to-Our Isle & Times examines how history is being changed before our eyes with gigantic financial repercussions...there are links below to more of Michelle Stirling's very recent and relevant work (including a fuller version of the one we printed).

Gord reveals many more positively-tested secrets that may be hard to believe!

This month's crossword is all about equity of outcome...give it a go, everyone can have fun with this one!

The Community Calendar is packed again while the boy's Fishing for Funnies is guaranteed to make you laugh, as will this month's cartoon and Babylon Bee.

Anicca's Recipe Corner will make preserving that salmon easier and healthier and her NVC Tip of the Month will help you live easier and healthier, too!

Here are some useful and relevant websites to follow up your read:
 

Lasqueti Local Trust Committee's last meeting agenda and recording:
https://islandstrust.bc.ca/event/lasqueti-ltc-regular-meeting-5-4/

Michelle Stirling's "Sorry No More" and beyond...
https://medium.com/@UndauntedArtz2/canadians-killed-general-custer-and-t...
https://michellestirling.com/2023/07/28/ambiguous-losses-epidemics-orpha...

https://michellestirling.com/2023/10/25/confronting-indian-residential-s...

https://medium.com/@UndauntedArtz2/just-say-no-to-canadas-wild-ghost-cha...

qathet Regional District's Budget and RD Fall's interpretation of it:
https://www.qathet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-2028-Financial-Pla...
https://rumble.com/v58e65t-regional-director-falls-2024-town-hall.html

https://mainroad.ca/bc-infrastructure-services-2/mainroad-mid-island-con...

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PS. As always, any and all feedback is welcomed!  Just call our 24/7/365 toll-free hotline whenever the urge strikes at 877-873-1797...I look forward to hearing from you!