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In This Issue:
**A TASTE OF SALT SPRING Taste and toast the best of the best.Salt Spring's arts, crafts,
architecture, culture, cuisine, community, sports and spectacular scenery. Drop
by the Visitor Information Centre for details. Bloomin' Beautiful Villages!! An organic meeting placeWhat a better way to kick off the summer season than to showcase our
community and its creativity! Imagine our village in a summer version of the
"Christmas Light Up" - only this time pots and containers filled with herbs,
annuals and perennials will be the decorating tools. and Mother Nature will be
the helper. See an example at the Visitor Information Centre starting May 5.
Take up For info: contact Perry at 537-4223 Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce with the support of the Driftwood newspaper.
Member DirectoryIf you have not already given me a 300 character (not 300 word) description of your business, please get it to me by the end of the month so that I can begin compiling our membership directory. There will be advertising space available for a reasonable cost, so please contact me if you are interested and I will work out pricing. Membership RenewalsThank you to everyone who has renewed your memberships for the 2003-2004 season. For those who have not renewed, please have them in by the end of May, or you will not be include dint he Directory. A complete membership listing will be included in next month's newsletter. Chamber Member HighlightGrowth Strategies: A distributor for QUAD-LOCK Insulating Concrete Forms. Contact Gord Ellis (537-1763). Why would anyone want to use QUAD-LOCK?
QUAD-LOCK and GROWTH STRATEGIES are committed to providing complete information and training in the use of QUAD- LOCK. To have your business highlighted, please email
chamber@saltspring.com Places to Walk Your DogA new map is coming out that illustrates where you can take your dog for
walks on the island, including off-leash parks. The maps should be available
near the end of the month from the Visitor Information Centre. Office ClosurePlease be advise d that the office will be closed from Tuesday May 20th to Thursday May 22nd as I will be attending the Tourism Vancouver Island Annual General meeting. Visa & MasterCard can still be dropped off on Tuesday Look Again! Brian Harris' Himalayan Visions Show Preview
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 | ArtSpring Centre |
| Saturday June 7 |
| Show Time 7:30 |
| Tickets: $15 (in advance & at the door) |
Artspring Centre Box office 250-537-2125 / toll free 1-866-537-2102
Brian Harris is an award winning Canadian photographer who has dedicated his past 15 years' work to using his images to raise money and awareness for Seva Canada's sight restoration projects in Tibet, India, Nepal and Tanzania. This well known and extensive body of photographic images exclusively focuses on Buddhist Himalayan Culture.
Himalayan Visions & Tibetan Voices is a 90 minute digital multi-media show consisting of over 250 of Harris's award winning images, and photographs of Seva's sight restoration work in Asia. The work documents the beauty and spontaneity of this unique culture as well as the contribution of Seva's program to restore sight. The audience is taken on a journey of the heart into another culture and beyond, into a world of compassion, humanity and service. Accompanying the compelling images are specially composed music, environmental sounds, sacred music and prayer, recorded narration by Zasep Tulku Rinpoche and Harris's live commentary.
Brian's service work and his award winning book, Tibetan Voices: A Traditional Memoir, have the personal endorsement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "I hope this book of images will create a better understanding of Tibet, its people and their culture whose very existence today are gravely threatened."
Fall 2002 Shows
| Vancouver (sold out) |
| Calgary |
| Edmonton |
| Winnipeg |
| Toronto |
| Ottawa |
| Halifax |
Contact information for Brian Harris
brian@seva.ca
Cell 604-842-8460
Seva Canada
Suite 100 - 2000 West 12th Ave.
Vancouver Canada V6J 2G2
Toll Free 1-877-460-6622
Office 604-713-6622
www.seva.ca/tour
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We are searching for businesses, clubs and non-profit organizations to be added to our recreational database. This is a NO COST service and already there are over 4000 Canadian businesses listed on our website. We only list businesses directly related to our sections of Golf, Fishing, Adventure, Skiing and Gambling. Namely; lodges, guides, sporting stores, ski hills, adventure outfitters, bingo halls, etc.
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Thank You
Joe Grieger
Friday May 30th, 2003
Keep your eyes open for details regarding our upcoming mixer.
It promises to be like no other event we have had.
The Salt Spring Island Residents for Responsible Land Use have created a questionnaire called "Looking Forward". Questionnaires are available through the Chamber of Commerce office if you are interested in completing one.
In the Fall of 2003, The Salt Spring Monetary Foundation will be printing the new Salt Spring 1, 2, and 5 Dollar Bills, so that we can begin taking the old ones out of circulation later this year, well in advance of the expiry date of December 31, 2003.
We have developed plans to offer space on the back of the bills to Salt Spring artists who would like to feature their work (including images of sculpture).
For a nominal set up cost and commitment to purchase a number of the Bills (which can be used at over 95% of island businesses to purchase day to day items such as food, gas, beer, etc.), the Foundation will produce smaller limited editions in numbers of five hundred or more, featuring approved artwork.
Imagine your art on state of the art, negotiable bills circulating around Salt Spring and the rest of the world! Included on your artwork will be space for your website address. Sign them and leave them as "value added" tips at restaurants or use them as conversation starters. Why use business cards when you could hand out a representation of your art that people would never throw away and likely would show others?
Artists who are interested should contact the $$ IMF for more details by e-mailing the foundation at bobmcginn@saltspring.com, Bob McGinn, President, Salt Spring Island Monetary Foundation
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