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AQUA GULF ISLANDS JUNE/JULY 2016

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COVER STORY

Ian Thomas: artist, teacher, juror, memory-keeper, PAGE 12

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TANTALIZERS! PAGE 6

VENTURES

Island style and comfort with Bodega North Woodworks, PAGE 8 Get healthy and happy at Slow Coast Coffee, PAGE 17

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ISLANDERS

Ken Katz: adjusting speeds on land and sea, PAGE 23 No rest from writing for Robert Harlow, PAGE 33

THE ARTS

The Point Gallery heads off in new directions, PAGE 31

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The men in our lives

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f my father was still alive, he would be turning 90 on June 15.

Even though it’s been almost five years since his heart gave out one night in his sleep (the “quick getaway,” I call it), I can still clearly see and hear him speak, grin, move and laugh. Sometimes when I am toiling in my vegetable garden, slapping the roots of weeds on a shovel to loosen the dirt and gently tossing the earthworms away, it’s as if he has joined me in my work. Having watched him do that task for so many years, I’ve embodied his in-the-garden motions.

It’s one of the ways that memory works its magic on us and ensures we are never alone.

With Father’s Day and elders in mind, this issue of Aqua highlights some lovely and accomplished Gulf Islands men, including Salt Spring artist Ian Thomas, who recently completed a set of illustrated letters for his five young granddaughters, sharing memories from his and their mothers’ childhoods.

Over on Mayne Island, Cherie Thiessen was fortunate

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to interview author and former UBC creative writing guru Robert Harlow, whose advice long ago bolstered her own writing career. She also visited Richard Dewinetz of Galiano Island, the retired Merit Kitchens founder who has found success and satisfaction in making “Galirondack” chairs and other outdoor furniture.

Bramwell Ryan met up with Ken Katz, the youngster in our gang, who speaks frankly about his competitive drive and its transformation through his yoga practice.

Tom Toynbee, Sr. is our Q&A person. He's one of several longtime island men whose tales and interpretations of local events always enlighten me.

We also have stories about Windsor Farm, which may be home to more hooves, paws and claws than any other Salt Spring farm these days, Slow Coast Coffee on Pender Island and The Point Gallery in Fulford.

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“What’s the thing that drives everyone crazy about picnic tables?”

Richard Dewinetz asks.

He waits.

“Sharp corners?” I venture.

He nods approval and I almost feel like I’m back in school being congratulated by my favourite teacher.

“But also . . . . ?”

My partner, David, provides this answer: “I hate that you can’t get easily in and out of the things.”

The skilled craftsman grins widely. “Exactly. So see how I build them?” He takes us over to look. “The seats are adjustable and they’re positioned so that everyone can slip in and out of their own side. But the table still seats eight. Here, now look at this reclining lounge. I call this one Eagle’s Rest. It has four different adjustable positions, a contoured backrest and a beer and wine holder built in. Ever notice how hard it is to move wooden recliners? Not this one. It has two wheels on the rear so that it’s easy to manoeuvre.”

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Part inventor, part retired successful business owner, part marketing guru and all craftsman, that’s the owner of Galiano Island’s Bodega North Woodworks.

But he’s also a teacher and he’s ready for us with today’s lesson.

Not to be deterred by our ooohs and ahhhs of admiration at all of the beautifully crafted furniture displayed in his outdoor showroom, he shepherds us into his drying room, where the lumber has been cut to rough lengths and stacked for drying, and shows us his moisture meter.

“Lumber is selected for processing into furniture components only when the moisture meter indicates a 10 per cent or less moisture content. Then they are first cut to final length on the chop saw. I’ll show you.”

We proceed to a spacious and immaculately organized workshop.

“You and David get the full demonstration. I usually do a similar but shorter version for interested buyers,” he tells us as we follow him to the three-blade planer where he dons ear protectors and asks us to stand back while demonstrating milling the piece to its final thickness. “Once the parts are cut, sanded and drilled, we can begin the assembly of the various models, using four-inch stainless-steel fasteners and powerful waterproof glue.”

He sees us noticing the various furniture components, all immacu-

Above: Seat support instructions written on the pattern itself.

At left: The Gossip Rocker.

Page 8, from top: Richard Dewinetz in his workshop; picnic table and benches.

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“The arms on the Boot Camp Bench, the Gardeners’ Rest, the Lover’s Leap and the Rocker are all the same components,” he says.

The founder of Merit Kitchens, one of the largest kitchen cabinet companies in Canada, certainly doesn’t make his signature outdoor furniture to supplement a pension, although with sales doubling in each of the four years since he began, it could well be another winning enterprise.

It all started in 2010. Their newly constructed 2,700-square-foot Galiano waterfront home on 20 acres was completed and Dewinetz’s partner, Evelyn DeLancey Dewinetz, suggested that now they needed some outdoor furniture in order to sit out and appreciate their panoramic Strait of Georgia views.

He could have simply bought the best chairs on the market, but no — considering his experience in carpentry and cabinet making — he decided it would be a fun project. He ordered plans for the Adirondack chair (designed and built in 1903 by Thomas Lee from New York), and built his first two chairs. The general consensus was that the appearance, the strength, the quality and the comfort had to be improved, so he went back to the drawing board. Now he built several prototypes, eventually arriving at a final version that was loudly approved by “quality control.”

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we showed the final models to a number of successful business people on Galiano and in Vancouver. They all said the same thing: People will buy these; there is nothing on the market that offers the quality and comfort like your version of the original.”

So the Galirondack recliner was born and is now the proud head of an ever-increasing family of chairs and other furniture, including the Lover’s Leap (double bench), wine cabinets, the Boot Camp (bench with boot storage) and more. The chairs are perfectly balanced and easy to get out of, the Coast Shelf nests neatly between chairs, the Pebble Beach sling-back chair folds up compactly and the fabric slips off efficiently, making it easy to clean. There seems to be no detail left out of each creation.

Dewinetz selects only the best western red cedar grown on Galiano, ensuring that the lumber is purchased from loggers and mills practising sustainable forestry, and he offers a five-year warranty on all his products. When I ask him how long it would take to build a Galironack chair, he doesn’t have to guess; he reaches for a ledger.

“Let’s see — here we go. Material cost is $115, overhead is 10 per cent and labour nine hours. And that chair sells for $425, so you can see that there’s little markup for profit. There hasn’t been one customer to date who has said your prices are too high.”

Well, it has been pretty obvious from the start that Bodega North Woodworks has never been about the money.

Dewinetz’s passion and energy reflect that of a much younger man, and perhaps that’s why he looks far more youthful than his 75 years.

At left: Dewinetz cutting wood.

Below: Hanging Bench for swinging.

Page 10, from top: Dewinetz and partner Evelyn DeLancey Dewinetz; the Sharing Bench.

Not just content with adding a thriving business to his busy life, he has kicked community involvement and support up a notch as well. Currently vice president of the Galiano Chamber of Commerce, he is also a generous donor. The province and the public were the happy recipients of the 121 acres Dewinetz contributed to add to Bodega Ridge Provincial Park, and over $100,000 from the sale of one of the lots in his development, The Estates at Panorama, has been given to the Galiano Housing Society to assist in creating seniors accommodation. With

the sale of two other lots, the Galiano Museum Society and the North Galiano Fire Department will also benefit substantially.

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“You know, I get a lot of joy when the local organizations ask for my furniture for their funding occasions.” Yes, he really said that!

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Cover Story

Letters FROM Home

SALT SPRING ARTIST IAN THOMAS

By GAIL SJUBERG Photos by Jen MacLellan, except as noted

It doesn’t take much a scent of lilacs or rose oil a song it doesn’t take much to remember the world always how it was the way memory spills through what I see or touch or hear and there’s no end to it like desire. ~ PATRICK FRIESEN,

from Anna (first dance), Blasphemer’s Wheel

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here would artists, poets or any of us be without the radiating power of memory?

Longtime Salt Spring artist Ian Thomas has frequently delved into his past to find meaningful subject matter for his paintings and installations. Swallows Meadows, an exhibit shown at galleries around B.C. from 1989 to 1995, including the former Vortex Gallery on Salt Spring, explored his youth in England, as did one of two ensuing Family Albums series.

“These works record old memories, the place an England of the past: marked, scarred and in this instance coloured grey,” Thomas stated at the time about his first Family Albums series. The second, brighter series of album paintings was set in Canada, with children and grandchildren being celebrated.

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Above: Seated, from left, are Salt Spring National Art Prize jurors Holger Kalberg, Vicky Chainey Gagnon and Ian Thomas, watching proceedings during the SSNAP gala evening at Mahon Hall last October, with SSNAP committee member Margaret Day standing behind.

At left: A recent 60" x 45" Thomas acrylic on canvas depicting the Brighton shore.

His most recent depictions of the past also have a lighter tone, although they were not made with viewing on gallery walls in mind.

Thomas, 80, has reinvigorated the personal letter, transforming it into a vibrant art form. The letters’ recipients are his five granddaughters, who range in age from nine to 14. Thomas has created nine letters for each girl, releasing them at intervals as letters would naturally arrive. They focus on incidents of his life when he was their age, and he has chosen different subjects for each girl, depending on what he thinks they would be most interested in.

Some recount adventures from when Thomas lived in Ghana with his young family in the 1960s; others are childhood memories from England, such as the time his mother stole a farmer’s turnips while they were on a nature walk; or when Thomas waved at an airplane that turned out to be a German Stuka bomber. All are illustrated by photographs, notebook excerpts or his own drawings.

He explains that in embarking on the project “I wanted to remind my granddaughters and, indirectly, my daughters, that I came from another whole world and another whole life that I had for that whole period of time before I emigrated and that got lost as a consequence of emigrating, inevitably.”

Thomas first ventured down the letter path as a result of his daughter Vickie’s struggle with cancer. Feeling helpless to do anything useful, he found himself writing letters to her. He ended up writing hundreds of letters, remembering the experiences of her childhood and other periods of their lives.

“I found it a very comforting thing to communicate with my daughter while she was dying,” he says.

Thomas admits he quite enjoys using his iPad, but misses the richer, more labourintensive process of writing and sending letters.

“I think that’s something that is almost lost now and I think it’s a pity. That’s the way it goes, but there is something very special about that whole process, about that particular way of communicating, which we don’t do anymore.”

It’s not the first time Thomas has merged words and images in his artwork.

For example, in 2000 he created a series called Salt Spring Voices, which was shown at Vortex Gallery. It was a set of four boxes with a painting on the front that represented the four seasons with four doors to each box.

“By opening the doors, viewers could listen to a poem or song or something said by a local Salt Springer. [They] were also invited to leave things inside the boxes that

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“AS A BOY OUT OF ENGLAND — THAT BOY IN SHORT PANTS AND EVERYTHING CORRECT AND MIDDLE CLASS — I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT THIS WHOLE LIFE OFFERED ME HERE IN — IAN THOMAS BRITISH COLUMBIA.” referred to the story, a poem or song that they heard by opening the particular door.”

In 2005 at The Point Gallery, he presented Blue Eyes, Black Hair, the same name of an erotic 1986 novel by French writer Marguerite Duras.

Thomas’ paintings reference scenes from the book, which were typed out and displayed with the paintings.

Margaret Day, owner and curator of The Point Gallery in Fulford Harbour, is a huge Thomas fan.

“When it comes to his art he thinks each body of work through completely, which has made it such a pleasure to show," she says. "I have a feeling that he probably approaches all he does with the same depth.

His use of materials is always thought through and appropriate to what he wants to express.”

Between his own work and his high-level teaching credentials, it was no surprise that Thomas was asked to be one of three jurors for the first Salt Spring National Art Prize event initiated by the Salt Spring Arts Council that culminated in a month-long exhibit at Mahon Hall last fall.

“I was very happy to be asked to do it in the first place,” he says, noting that it allowed him to call on his teaching background.

Thomas taught at Kwama Nkruma University in Ghana in the 1960s, was assistant professor at UBC (1967-1975) and an instructor at Camosun College from 1976 until retiring in 1991. He was also a juror for the B.C. Cultural Services Branch and the B.C. Regional Arts Council.

For SSNAP, he and fellow jurors Vicky Chainey Gagnon from Newfoundland and Holger Kalberg from Manitoba evaluated 1,367 images of artwork on a computer screen and distilled the mass down to 52 works for the final exhibit.

“I felt really good about it in the end . . . I was quite happy about what happened. And I was happy that each juror got an individual choice too.”

Thomas’ pick was young Vancouver painter M.E. Sparks, who received not only a cash prize but an opportunity to hold her Still Here exhibit at The Point Gallery in April. “So it really gave her a lift,” he says.

Thomas grew up in Brighton and went to Birmingham Art College, but found no job waiting for him at the end. “But there was the Art Teachers Diploma Program, which I took, and as a consequence I was qualified as an art teacher in the schools.”

At that time, the late 1950s, representatives from some Canadian provinces went to England to recruit teachers for their public schools. Thomas applied for a job

Above: Three of the 45 illustrated letters Thomas created for his five granddaughters, including one with a drawing of himself as a proper boy in short pants, tie and a jacket on picture-taking day.

Below: Brushes in Thomas' studio.

in B.C. and ended up working as an art teacher at Newton Junior High School in Surrey.

“That’s where it all began. It was very rural, which I liked, and I had a bike and a wife and a little daughter . . . and we lived in this little tiny house on the edge of the King George Highway and I would bike to school every day.”

Thomas reflects on the opportunities emigrating to Canada gave him.

“As a boy out of England — that boy in short pants and everything correct and middle class — I couldn’t believe what this whole life offered me here in British Columbia.”

He and his first wife had a small recreational cabin on a bluff on the north end of Galiano Island, which is where his love of the islands germinated. Eventually he moved to Beaver Point with his second wife, Jacqueline, and, with some hired help, built their home on a hill on a fiveacre parcel, plus studios for himself and Jacqueline.

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Above: Thomas with some elements from The Walkers series, with one in-progress piece seen at the top right.

Below: A young boy investigates a painting in Salt Spring Voices, a multi-media exhibit of Thomas work held at the former Vortex Gallery in 2000.

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something myself, like a house. It never would have been possible for me to think like that in England.”

Thomas commuted to teach at Camosun College in Victoria a couple of days a week.

“I liked having these two worlds which I was both so intimately connected with: the world here on Salt Spring Island and the world of still going back to Camosun College and working in a studio environment with young people.”

Something he brought with him from Britain, which he was able to revisit after retiring, is an enjoyment of the game of bridge. As a child he was sometimes needed to complete a foursome when his parents hosted bridge-playing friends.

Zelly Taylor is his usual partner at Gulf Islands Duplicate games these days.

“Playing bridge with Ian is always entertaining,” she says. “As anyone who knows him knows, he is very quick-witted and dependably brings laughter to the table.”

His sense of humour comes out when showing me a new series of paintings he is working on. The Walkers are emerging from photographs he’s taken of friends who walk daily in his neighbourhood. He says he is attracted to images of peasants and community created by 16th-century Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

He’s not sure his friends would appreciate the comparison, but Bruegel’s painting titled The Blind Leading the Blind was a particular inspiration.

“Here they all are," Thomas says, "images from Bruegel, and images from my friends, who are all on the walk.”

He has even mischievously inserted himself into one painting in progress, as a fallen man whose walking stick has failed him.

Thomas is prominent in two other large and impressive paintings in his studio.

One is set on the shore of Brighton in England, with its ochre-coloured sands and boiling storm clouds, a Victorian-era hotel on land and a family heading up the beach, along with an elderly man with his cane, seemingly emerging from the wind and waves of memory. (It's on pages 12 and 13 of this magazine.)

And there he is again with his back to us in a colourful 60"X45" piece called Going Home (on the cover) which I soon see depicts another kind of artwork that literally involves the landscape.

In the past 20 years or so, Thomas has sculpted a remarkably flat part of his forested property into what is almost an arboretum with deciduous and coniferous trees in various stages of leafiness and bloom, from a luscious pink dogwood to a black locust to a linden (and countless more).

“This was all just a mass of trees and salal and it was complete wilderness,” he says, sweeping his arm across the area.

“I just wanted to make the [Going Home] painting as a reminder of all the things I really love here, and Jacqueline has already claimed it as hers.”

As Day, from The Point Gallery, observes about Going Home, “It has great feeling of a life sorted out in a place well loved and totally known.”

For more images of Thomas artwork, see www.behance.net/ianthomas_art.

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he long portable alongside the wine and beer store at the Medicine Beach commercial complex has been playing the field. Over the years it has lived with the cable company, then had a coffee shop move in, and at some point took up with a gift shop and a real estate office, possibly at the same time.

But now — finally — it may have met its “forever” partner: Slow Coast Coffee.

It seems a match made in culinary heaven. Alison Feargrieve is passionate, fiery, energetic and gregarious. She became interested in the venue three years ago when she heard it was once again fancy free. Along with partner Rob McCallum, she came to check it out and it was love at first sight. Granted, the old portable looked pretty shabby and dishevelled, but Feargrieve could see the potential and was ready for a commitment.

The three-year lease was signed, the building’s interior soon sported a sparky lime green complexion and a striking new sign soon hung to the right of the doorway: “I wanted a handmade, threedimensional piece of art that looked like an assembled puzzle,” said the new owner, who designed, routed, sanded, primed, painted and glazed the red and yellow cedar pieces, a labour of love she says took her 50 hours.

The magenta-haired co-owner’s driv-

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“Like my key lime pie, for example. If you can make amazing desserts that taste delicious and they’re only good for you, why wouldn’t you?”

Well, I can think of several reasons why you wouldn’t: the difficulty of finding some of these exotic ingredients, for example, like raw honey or cashew milk; the extra time and trouble it takes to get used to working with healthier products like brown rice flour instead of bleached white flour, or coconut butter instead of lard and, most importantly, the huge extra expense for a small business owner, which would substantially nibble away at the profit margin. (White sugar is hugely cheaper than honey or agave, for example.) But for this food artisan, profit seems low on the scale.

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So what’s in this key lime pie then? Is there really such a thing as a guilt-free dessert?

“It has a sprouted almond crust with dates or sometimes coconut, freshly squeezed lime juice, raw honey. There’s coconut milk from young coconuts in there as well as coconut butter and cacao butter — a good clean oil. And the meringue for that pie is made from cashew and coconut milk with honey and coconut butter. When blended with a powerful blender it makes a silky smooth cream.”

Before even entering the café you’ll know you’re on to something good. The bright colours and the gorgeous Slow Coast sign on the right signal right away that love lives here. Then, if it’s a Sunday afternoon, the music from the jamming inside will reinforce that. If it’s not a Sunday, you’ll still hear friendly chatter and laughter at the tables.

“I love it when people come in here and are soon enfolded into conversation by the islanders,” beams Feargrieve.

Once opening the door you may wish you were an artist. The colours, the spread of cookies and culinary delights at the counter and the slow cooker enticing visitors in the corner by the windows, which overlook the sun rising on an early morning over Bedwell Harbour, well, it’s all sensory overload.

Some places say WELCOME with capitals and this is one such place.

Penderities love to feel greeted when they go out, and this couple really gets that. If she’s not busy, Feargrieve will be sitting at the table visiting as well.

For those wishing a quiet visit or just a place to read or to work with a good cup of coffee or the house chai, a cozy sitting room with sofa, chairs and coffee table fills the right side of the portable. The rest of the room has cozy tables and stools at the counter overlooking the view.

Lively, intriguing collages and photographs are part of the art found lavishly decorating the walls. When I was there, it was local artists Kelly Irving and Joanna Rogers being featured, but the work changes every few months.

“It’s important for me to have an environment where art is encouraged and appreciated. We have lots of excellent artists on this

island so I want their art on my walls. It’s really nice to give them a space to show their work,” says Feargrieve, who’s an artist herself, and not just in food. “I was a potter and sculptor for 20 years. For three years I had studios in Vancouver and Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia. I did retail and a couple of wholesale shows as well as selling through galleries and my studio. And then it was time for that to wind down and I really didn’t know what I was going to do next. I’m not one of those people who can just do something that they’re not into.”

So seven years ago she came to Pender, initially working at several places while that defining experience of driving across Canada and eating at restaurants drove her to make some decisions.

“Then I thought I wanted to be self-employed again, to make my own kind of food, food that was free of garbage. The farmers’ market is where I really got a following and then I offered vegan food at Southbridge Farm for about two years as well as providing baking for community events and concerts. Then this building came up for lease.

Happily Rob was really into it too, so I said, ‘Yah, great! Let’s go!’” And they went.

Rob came to Pender three years ago, lured here by his special friend whom he had met years ago back in Halifax. “I didn’t have to drag him here!” she says, and it’s pretty obvious looking at the two of them that she didn’t.

This food artisan continues to be very excited about raw food that is delicious and good for the body.

“The enzymes are so important to your health and they are destroyed in the heating process. Raw cacao is a great example. It is extremely high in antioxidants, is a mood enhancer, good for your heart, has many minerals and nutrients, and also contains fibre and protein, making it a nutritionally dense food.”

When she talks about “raw” she’s looking at the whole zen — the raw food movement, which emphasizes not just an uncooked product but one that is organic, pure, unrefined and fresh. And full of love, of course. When love is in the recipe, boy can you ever tell!

The Slow Coast Coffee on Pender Island Facebook page usually has the daily specials posted along with pictures, comments, hours and events. Sunday live music runs from 1 to 3 p.m., so bring your instrument and jam along.

Above: Musicians jam at Slow Coast Coffee on a Sunday afternoon. At left: Handmade sign made by the coowner Alison Feargrieve. Page 17, from top: Feargrieve and Rob McCallum; cookie trays; soup-of-the-day sign.

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t’s rare to hear a 62-year-old talking about wrestling with an alien. But for Ken Katz this has been a lifelong battle, with no clear winner.

The “alien within” is this retiree’s name for an omnivorous, insatiably competitive spirit, one that takes over and turns everything into a race. For most of his life, that corrosive desire to always be the first to cross the line has shaped Katz’s view of what is necessary and possible. Yet things are changing on that battlefront.

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Born and raised in his dad’s junk yard in Yonkers, N.Y., Katz trained as a teacher. After a year of puttering through the southern U.S. on a motorbike, he took over a classroom in tony New Canaan, Conn. It scared him.

“When you look at people doing any job for a long time, you get a pretty good idea of what you’ll become,” he says. “I realized that was not the life I wanted. I craved more adventure.”

So, like a lot of young Americans in the 1970s, he headed west to the land of self creation.

In California he surrendered completely to his childhood

fascination with boats. During weekends and evenings over the next few years he built Cat’s Cradle, a 33-foot steel yacht. His day job was at a boatyard. For the next three years he kept on going, sailing south to Central America, through the Panama Canal and to the U.S. eastern seaboard. Next he swapped the tiny cabin of a boat for the hot housing market of San Francisco. It was a new challenge and Katz quickly soared in the sales tables as a real estate agent. He discovered yoga and dove in deep, attending intense classes almost every day. Then came kayak racing.

That is what brought him to Salt Spring Island in 2003. After a

“The older you get you’ve got to play every card you’ve got.”

— KEN KATZ At left: Ken Katz leads a men's yoga class.

Above: Katz in his boat-building workshop.

Next page: Katz on the water in one of the "surf skis" he has made for kayak racing.

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competition in the San Juan Islands, Katz and his wife Luanne took a few extra days to visit Canada.

“We were pulled along by a string to Salt Spring,” he says, with the familiar wry smile of those who can’t quite explain how they ended up here.

By the end of that initial trip they had purchased a home on Isabella Point Road in the southern part of Salt Spring Island.

“Neither one of us is normally so impulsive,” he says. “Although both of us operate from the gut, we’re not usually inclined to jump off a cliff. That time we did.”

It was a soft landing in 2006 when they became full-time Salt Spring residents.

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Katz has begun a new chapter and grounds himself in 45 to 90 minutes a day of yoga. That’s how he is being more alive to what’s going on right now, rather than always chasing what might be.

Years ago, when he first embraced yoga it became yet another competition, one that he pursued so ardently that he injured himself. But now his practice allows him to push back the shallow charms of victory, which are always about what’s next, and instead focus on today.

“It helps me peel back the layers until my consciousness ties in with everything I do. I’m more present, more in tune with the moment and happier.”

It could be said that the male half of the human race defines itself through competition and victory. As that drive withers, it leaves questions with few answers. Many can be fearful and unwilling to try anything. And for those programmed by a lifetime to always look to the future, how does one learn to savour what’s happening right now?

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Katz knows these conflicts and he sees them in others, especially other men. That is why four years ago he started a men’s only yoga class which now runs at the Salt Spring Island Wellness Centre in Ganges.

“I was looking at my peers and I knew men need this,” Katz says. “They are traditionally resistant to yoga because it’s about sensitivity, softness . . . which is not highly valued by men.

I was often the only guy in a yoga class, so I figured starting one just for men might make some feel more comfortable. When I see what it has done for me as a person, it’s profound and I want to share that.” Between three and eight men join Katz every Thursday morning for the class, with several more attending on occasion.

But while the teaching is an antidote to the compulsions that drive him elsewhere in the workshop and in the races, the struggle remains one he confronts every day. The irony for Katz is that the forthcoming battles to evict the “alien within” may themselves become a competition.

And while there may not be a clear winner, at the very least there may be a truce.

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isitors to The Point Gallery this summer will find unique possibilities for interacting with art in an innovative, non-commercial space. The scheduled exhibitions offer high-calibre concepts and execution worthy of the best known urban venues, all within the quaint rural setting of Salt Spring’s south end.

In the meadow outside the barn gallery, Anna Gustafson’s Snow Fence permits people to literally step into an art experience. The installation piece takes the form of a double spiral labyrinth created with the iconic fencing well known to most of Canada, where it is installed during winter to prevent the formation of snow drifts.

Gustafson was inspired to create the Snow Fence installation by the story of Theseus, who alone escaped the Minotaur and survived the labyrinth.

He did so by unrolling a spool of red thread given to him by Ariadne, daughter of King Minos.

“In this case the red snow fence is both the labyrinth and the red thread,” Gustafson explains in her artist’s statement.

“However, instead of creating danger, fear and anxiety, the never-ending pathways of Snow Fence inspire journeys of exploration and discovery. Each of the two entrances lead to the centre, which is neither a goal nor destination but a turning point on the journey.”

Though there is little need for snow protection on Salt Spring, the wooden slats and galvanized wire are nonetheless a familiar cultural touchstone for many transplants. The act of walking the spiral holds another, deeper cultural memory.

“Entering a labyrinth involves an act of faith; a small one in this instance since the dimensions are visible,” says curator and gallery owner Margaret Day. “Nevertheless, we are choosing to go into an unknown space of no visible purpose, a space very different to our usual world. In taking that first step we depend on myth and story and ancient knowledge . . . Unlike a maze, which is meant to puzzle, to confuse and to entertain, we know the path of a labyrinth will take us to the centre and lead us out again.”

Opportunities for more structured public interaction, including dance performances in and around the labyrinth space, will take place during the summer.

Visitors may access Snow Fence at any time during daylight hours throughout 2016. To access the meadow, enter The Point Gallery property

Above: Snow Fence, a double spiral labyrinth created by Anna Gustafson in the field at The Point Gallery in Fulford.

Below: The barn-like shape of the gallery.

on foot from South Ridge Drive and look for information on the side of the barn next to the upper gallery stairs.

From mid-June to mid-July, gallery guests will have the opportunity to witness the product of the Salt Spring Arts Council’s new Artists in Residency program. Led by Emily Carr University of Art + Design professor Hélène Day-Fraser and co-lead Keith Doyle, ‘cloTHING(s) as conversation’ will see an international team of 15 research assistants and academic collaborators participate in a design charrette from June 13 to 15. They will investigate issues around the social meaning of clothing and experiment with how a basic woven shape can become multiple different clothing forms through the use of fasteners, which they will manufacture on the spot using a 3D printer.

“Since the fall of 2011 our work has been seeking means to revise common assumptions about how we should and can interface with the textile-based products around us. In particular, cloTHING(s) as conversation aims to address the challenges connected to contemporary design, wearable technology and the fashion industry’s move toward sustainability,” information on the project’s website explains.

Sustainable fashion researcher, author and design activist Kate Fletcher is a mentor of the project.

As part of the AiR program, artists making use of local studio space to further their creative work must include a public engagement component. Day-Fraser and her research assistant Mia Daniels will stay on after the charrette for four weeks, with special exercises happening on four Sundays beginning June 19. Visitors can expect to find an interesting intersection between high and low tech within a textile/ fashion discourse, with topics including Seeking Stillness (in a mobile world) and Collaborative Weaving: Contemporary Objects + Traditional Crafts.

People who are interested in exploring making as a thinking process, new ways of interacting meaningfully with clothes and better engagement with the environment and who would like to become more deeply engaged with the project during the residency are welcome to contact Day-Fraser at hfraser@ecuad or Day at pointgallery@telus.net.

More information about the EUCAD project overall is available at clothingasconversation.com/conversations.

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Magus: a learned magician.

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o, this magus is not a learned master of magic; rather, he’s a magical master of words.

Comfortably ensconced in the well-known novelist and educator’s Mayne Island aerie, I’m finding out a whole lot more about the person who made such a difference in my life, the man who once told B.C. Bookworld editor Alan Twigg that a writer has to save his energy for writing, not “day jobs,” and who also said that successful writers are people with drive who have learned how to translate that drive into the energy that goes into writing.

For Harlow, writing and the teaching of writing are a whole lot about technique. He told Twigg he thinks “strategies” when writing: “Organizing different sections from different points of view, for example. That’s how my first novel, Royal Murdoch, was written. Over the years I don’t know how many pages of stuff I tore up because I was allowing myself to get into it. That’s what technique is all about in writing; to get the author the hell out of his own work so it can be its own spontaneous self. An author should be able to write a full spectrum, not write himself over and over.”

And in addition to technique there’s that nasty word “discipline,” the kind of word many novice writers eschew.

“Writing has to be like going to the office. Put your bum on a chair and stay there until something does or doesn’t happen,” says the seasoned writer. “Do it regularly and whenever you can. I’d get up at 6 o’clock, take my breakfast into another room, and I would write for several hours every day because at that time I had a family and a career. That’s how I got my books done. If you’re a writer it’s the writing that’s the major part of your life; it comes first. You do that and then you go to your job or your family or your lover. Writ-

Robert Harlow with shelves of books at his Mayne Island home.

ing has to come first.”

It also came early to the young man, who wanted to be a travel writer at age nine but whose education was cut short when World War II broke out and he enlisted in the Canadian Royal Air Force at 18, flying Lancaster and Halifax bombers. Although he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, bestowed for acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty while flying in active operations against the enemy, he shrugs this off.

“I went blind in that last trip and had to fly the plane back with my engineer giving directions in my ear and finally we found an aerodrome and made somewhat of a landing. I landed on one wheel and then the other wheel went off the runway and we practically disappeared in the mud.”

Robert laughs recalling his heroism of so long ago.

“It was rough, but we weren’t injured. The time when we really crashed was when I got shot up during a raid and had no undercarriage so had to land on my belly and that’s hard to do. I did a perfect landing and it dug into the ground and fortunately didn’t catch fire. But no one wants to read about that now.”

I disagree.

The war over, the veteran enrolled at UBC and graduated in 1948 with a B.A. in English, studying under renowned poet Earle Birney, who instigated and then headed up the first credit course in creative writing in Canada.

Three years later, Harlow was graduating from the prestigious University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts degree, the first Canadian to be invited to attend. By the time he had finished with his thesis he had pretty much found his voice.

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He continued to waste no time. Shortly upon graduation he became the director of radio for the B.C. region, a position he held for the next 14 years, even while writing two of the three novels that would make up his Linden Trilogy (named after an imaginary northern B.C. town not unlike Prince George, where he grew up). Royal Murdoch was published in 1962 and Gift of Echoes in 1965.

And then in the same year, Birney asked him to head up the UBC Creative Writing Program. Harlow said he thought about that for about 12 seconds, and took over the department and steered it on to greater glory. In 1972 the third book of his trilogy was published. Harlow took a sabbatical in 1970-71 and went to Majorca with his family, writing the bulk of Scann in about eight months.

Although he retired as head in 1977, he continued to teach in the department until 1988, mentoring, encouraging and assisting many young writers, myself included.

Several novels followed after the trilogy: Making Arrangements in 1978, Paul Nolan in 1983, Felice: A Travelogue in 1985, The Saxophone Winter in 1988 and Necessary Dark in 2003, four years after he had made Mayne Island his permanent home. Faraday Comes Home, a selfpublished e-book, came out in 2012.

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Now in his early 90s, this author of nine books and the recipient of the George Woodcock Literary Achievement Award in 2001 for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia lives quietly with his partner of 30 years, Sally Ireland, herself an author as well as an artist. (She is pictured on this issue's index page.) It seems that the discipline that has always kept him on track is still as strong as ever. The writer, who has had 690 pages of biography written about him (692 now), continues to work in his office every morning, answering emails and keeping well abreast of the print-on-demand trends.

Discipline and technique; I think of him every time I head to the computer to put in my four hours a day.

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here are folks who panic when their ducks aren’t all in a row. The Windsor family definitely doesn’t live this way. Their farm, just off Musgrave Road, is best described as “eclectic.” To sum it up, it’s the most amazing place I have ever seen!

As we begin our farm tour, Sheila and Darryl Windsor, the main engines behind all the activity, tell me, “We have everything here from A to Z — Asparagus to Zucchini — and all things in between.”

That pretty well covers their vegetable department, but it doesn’t take into account the sheep, goats, pigs, beef cattle and dairy cows, chickens, ducks, fruit trees, herbs, berry bushes, hops and grapes. And even that falls short when you include Sebastian the cockatoo, border collie sheep dogs Bruiser, Lancelot and Guinevere, the lovebirds, cockatiels and four cats, including barn cat Minnie.

When I pull out my pocket-sized notepad, Sheila casts a skeptical eye and says, “Do you think that’s going to be a big enough book?”

I think she is kidding, but she is not!

The living room is full of bird song as I am introduced to a dozen-or-more feathered friends. The newspapers in the bottom of the love bird cage are all astir. “That’s Ok,” says Sheila. “It’s just somebody building a nest.”

In another tall cage, a lone cockatiel keeps an eye on what is going on in the house. I ask why he is in there all by himself. “He can’t fly,” I’m told. “He’s got a bum wing. He has to be able to fly to reach food and water in the big aviary outside, so he lives in here.”

“What’s his name?” I ask.

“We haven’t exactly gotten around to naming him yet,” she says. “Maybe he is Number 18.” That seems about right to me. In the cockatiel aviary in the carport at least two dozen of these beautiful birds squawk and screech and go about their parroty sort of business. It is spring-time after all, nesting season!

On top of the bird cages is a crosssection of the herbs grown on the farm: ginger, turmeric and lemongrass. And

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“This is our dehydrator,” says daughter Brittany. “We tried to get the biggest one they had. This is their second biggest — there was some issue about weight,” and she chuckles as if that’s the most ridiculous thing she has ever heard of.

The storeroom is jammed with various herbal remedies the Windsors sell at the Tuesday Farmers’ Market in Ganges: mixes of olive oil, beeswax, healing herbs and flowers.

“In this house, every flat service is fair game,” laughs Sheila, moving boxes and baskets to reveal dried beans and peppers, onions and garlic, and fruit from last year. There are also bars of soap made from milk, pork tallow, olive oil, castor oil, herbs and flowers.

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In the root cellar are quart canning jars of everything from home-made sauerkraut and ketchup to bottles of wine, rounds of cheese made from their own Jersey milk, jams and jellies.

In the carport off the hall next to the aviary are 10 deepfreezers, some containing sacks of feed for the farm’s various livestock, while others are full of meat and veggies raised on the farm: beef, pork, goat, turkey, lamb, chicken and duck. And eggs, of course, dozens of eggs, in a fridge on the porch.

We step outside into a flurry of blossoms from the fruit trees.

This fenced area is the “baby orchard” where newly planted fruit trees are getting a start — apple, cherry, plum and pear. The front of the house is lined with peach and fig trees, the border gardens choked with flowers and herbs — oregano, parsley, bay leaf, sage and rosemary — and roses, lots of roses. The dandelions in the orchard are not seen as pests. They go into teas, salads and the blossoms are used to scent and flavour various projects from soaps to syrup. The main orchard is 30 years old.

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“It all goes to the Elderberry Yarns wool shop in Ganges. We have a ready market for all of our wool.”

Nearby are several large tubs of hides being tanned, another of Sheila’s many interests.

Overhead, a 30-year-old grape vine twines its way across its trellis.

“We just cut it back,” says Sheila. “It had crossed the yard and was headed for the hydro lines across the road.”

The grape vine, it seems, emulates everything else on the farm — growing in high gear, full of vigour and enthusiasm for life. As if to prove that point, a small pond beside the house boils with six-inch fish.

“Koi?” I ask. “Nope,” says Brittany. “Goldfish. These are Canadian Tire three-for-a-dollar goldfish. When we got them they were only an inch long, but someone must have been pregnant. We have since learned that pregnant goldfish are called twits. These guys are twits, alright!”

Windsor Farm is 20 acres in size. It is surrounded on two sides by other farms that supply lease-land for hay and grazing as required (and stray and orphaned animals that seem to gravitate to Windsor Farm as if magnetized).

The farm is shaped like a flag on a flagpole, the long narrow “pole” leading up from the house to the larger pastures that border steep ravines and heavy forest, the ruggedest part of Salt Spring. These fields and woods are home to goats, sheep and three huge hogs.

Along the way we find Darryl, Sheila’s husband, mulching newly planted hop vines next to one of the farm’s three greenhouses (now repaired after the cows ate holes all through the plastic the day before a public farm tour three years ago).

Alongside is a newly tilled garden patch large enough to feed a small army. In an effort to maximize everyone’s efficiency on the farm, every winter the substantial flock of ducks and chickens is turned loose on this patch to eat bugs and weeds and fertilize the rich loam.

In the background I can see an almost-finished structure that will be the new aviary for all the birds presently living in the carport.

“Then we’ll have more room for stuff,” Sheila says, and I am sure I can see a gleam in her eye and a head full of plans for the space.

Although it is only April, along the edge of the garden I can see new growth — knee-high red Portugese garlic and, not far away, blueberries, raspberries, currants, lavender, asparagus, Jerusalem and Japanese artichokes and rhubarb.

It’s the enthusiasm on the farm that is so contagious: the parrots that peck and squawk, a rooster the size of a laundry tub that struts and crows, the cattle and cows that meander down the lane whenever they hear a weed-eater fire up, certain they will be treated to an armload of freshly cut grass.

As we near one of the larger pastures, I need to be instructed in the proper way to introduce myself to the herd, which includes equal portions of hand-sniffing, head scratching and a lot of nostril licking (by the cows, not me). I meet Louise the cow, who is ready to burst in pregnancy at any minute, and Fergus, the half-ton bull.

“Why Fergus?” I ask.

“Because he’s a red-headed Scotsman,” Sheila replies, as if it’s as obvious as the nose on my face.

Then I meet Zeus, a three-month-old Hereford-Anguscross calf as handsome as a dancer (named this year when Greek gods were in fashion on the farm. Last year it was planets, resulting in live-

Clockwise from top left: Buster the cat; Windsor Farm sign on Hamilton-Horne Way; Darryl Windsor; packaged herbs ready for sale; homemade butter; a garden area and greenhouse in April; and Fergus and Mable chowing down.

Below: 'Canadian Tire goldfish' thriving in a farm pond.

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stock named Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter, Neptune and Martian; last year’s lambs were herbs and spices).

Zeus is currently in the doghouse for drinking way too much milk — up to four gallons a day from the two Jersey cows (Daisy and Bea) plus his own mom. I meet Thelma and Louise, two beef cows, so named for their habit of leading all the other cows and sheep to the fence, stepping on the page wire until they are able to access the neighbour’s field, then doing the limbo to get there themselves.

As we stroll, we pass a huge maple tree now all in flower. “We could tap that tree and make maple syrup,” says Sheila.

Everybody has to pull their weight on this farm, it seems, even when they are a tree. A little further along is a huge elberberry bush, now festooned in white blossoms. “I’ve been waiting ever since we came to this farm for that thing to bloom,” Sheila says.

I am sure that, come this time next year, bottles of elderberry wine and jars of elderberry jelly will be in stock on the farm.

From the field with the sheep comes the wailing of who-knowshow-many lambs.

“They have only been weaned for three days,” says Sheila, “so they are still hopeful of getting a bottle.”

These are all orphaned lambs from various farms that have had to be fed by hand, every few hours, for the last two months. “What can I say?” Sheila says as she gives them all a rub between their ears, “I love critters.”

By now I am shaking my head. “This is unbelievable,” I say to no one in particular.

“Oh, we’re not done yet,” says Brittany. “We’re still only half-way up the flag pole,” as we make our way past a graveyard of still-operating

trucks and farm machinery, some of it dating back to the Windsors' grandparents.

There are three pigs flopped in the gumbo on the edge of their paddock. They are huge — a combined weight of 2,000 pounds.

These are the only animals who the Windsor girls won’t get too chummy with, although Darryl has no problem getting in with the boar.

“They are fast and the boar has three-inch tusks,” Sheila says. “He weighs 800 pounds. They deserve to be treated with a lot of respect.

We stay on our side of the fence, but they love a good scratch.” I can only surmise that separating the weaner pigs from the sows must be a challenge.

“It’s not that bad,” says Brittany. “Pigs can’t count.” I am left to ponder that on my own as we trudge along. The family has not farrowed the pigs yet this year; there will be a pen built by the gate before they have to separate the piglets again.

“I just can’t imagine how you do all this,” I say when we get to the goat pen where a similar episode of head-rubbing and handlicking takes place amid a chorus of affectionate baaaaas. “Don’t you know that any one of these pursuits is a full-time job for any normal farmer?”

“Well,” says Sheila. “We’ve been on this farm now for six years and it is getting close to what we want. By this summer, our farm store will be open and that will make things easier.”

I don’t say anything, but I can’t imagine how. What really amazes me is that all this seems effortless to this hard-working family of modern-day pioneers, as if, somehow, they make it all just happen by itself.

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known for their unique character, natural beauty and tranquility. Bring your friends and family to explore the rocky shores of these islands, kayaking the waters between them, or simply browsing through the local craft markets.

For details on accommodations, restaurants, things to do, attractions, events information and maps

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Be Water Savvy Use Only What You Need

Water is one of Salt Spring Island’s most precious resources. Please join islanders as we work together to ensure that this summer, and every summer, we use this limited resource wisely, and that we respect and protect our island watersheds.

Try these handy water saving tips: Keep showers short. Use low-flow shower heads. If bathing, try a 1/4 tub only.

Run only full loads in dishwashers and washing machines.

Shut off the tap while brushing teeth, shaving, or washing up hands or dishes.

Use low-flush toilets. Flush less often.

Use a bucket to capture and reuse shower, bath and dishwater in your garden.

Inform guests from the mainland about our islands’ limited water supply, and ask them to be please be aware of keeping consumption down.

Together EVERY water saver makes a difference.

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Comfort Food

Huevos Rancheros!

THE MARSHALLS’ FAVOURITE FAMILY DISH STORY & PHOTOS BY MARCIA JANSEN

You’d be surprised by how many different nationalities live on Salt Spring Island, and each one has their own comfort food.

W

hen Cynthia Marshall came to Canada in March of 2000 she was convinced that one day she would go back to her home country of Mexico. But 16 years later, she and her husband Tony are raising their three young children — Ana Sofia, Dani and Diego — on Salt Spring Island, and going back is not a real option anymore.

“Tony has always been very honest with me. He grew up on Salt Spring Island and that’s where he wants to stay.

Since we have kids, I feel the same. I know this is a better place for them to grow up than Mexico. The quality of life is so much better here. Salt Spring is safe, we know a lot of people and our kids have more freedom. I would never leave them out of my sight in Mexico,” she smiles.

Cynthia grew up in Colima city, the capital of Colima state, located in central-western Mexico.

She met her husband, Tony Marshall, in 1998 in Guadalajara, where she worked as an accountant.

“Tony was a teacher, working in Port Simpson Marcia Jansen is because he couldn’t find a job near Salt Spring a Dutch journalist Island. When his brother David went to Guaand writer who dalajara for a six-month exchange as part of the has lived on Salt Spring since 2012.

SFU economics program, Tony decided to come with him to learn Spanish. So that’s how we met.

When David went back, Tony stayed for four more months to teach English, but after that he had to go home.”

After a year of trying to maintain a long-distance relationship, Cynthia followed Tony to Canada.

“Tony is a very special person and I really wanted to give it a try with him,” she continues. “I applied for a permanent resident visa, because I didn’t want Tony to sponsor me. I wanted to be self-sufficient.

The first month I stayed with Tony and his family on Salt Spring Island and when I found an apartment and a job in Victoria I moved there. In the evenings I studied to become a Certified Public Accountant, but I didn’t finish it. After Tony and I had Ana Sofia and Dani it was — with just five courses to go — too hard to combine it all.”

She does, however, use her skills in her job as an administrative assistant at the high school.

The first years in Canada were not easy for her. Learning a new

The Marshall family of Salt Spring Island.

language was sometimes frustrating and, on top of that, she just missed the sun-filled days in Mexico.

“Where I grew up it was sunny and warm year round. In the first years the greyness and rainy weather on the west coast didn’t bother me too much. I worked all day so I didn’t really notice. When Ana Sofia was born and I was home all day with her, the greyness and lack of sun started to weigh down on me. My doctor advised me to take a lot of Vitamin D and Tony would take me to a tanning studio when I felt down. These days I have a different strategy to deal with the weather in winter: I just ignore it.”

Another thing she misses, of course, is the Mexican food.

“I miss everything, the food, the drinks. Although I am lucky that Tony learned to mix incredible margaritas from my dad.”

Her family’s favourite dish is huevos rancheros. “I used to make the tortillas from scratch, but with three kids I don’t have the time to do that anymore. Normally, I make this breakfast once a week, mainly on the weekends.

I prepare it the way my mom used to do it, but without serrano peppers because my kids don’t like spicy food.”

HUEVOS RANCHEROS Ingredients (Serves 4) 8 eggs 8 tortillas 4 fresh field tomatoes half an onion 1 cube chicken bouillon 1 serrano or jalapeno pepper (optional) cilantro (optional)

¼ cup of water canola oil salt and refried beans for serving.

Cut the tomatoes and boil them with the water and a bouillon cube in a small saucepan. Fry onion in a skillet (if you want a spicier salsa: add serrano or jalapeno pepper to taste). Mix the tomatoes and onions and blend in a blender. Add cilantro if you like.

Heat canola oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the tortillas one by one and heat them 30 seconds on each side. Heat 1 Tbsp. of canola oil in the same skillet and fry eggs until just set, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle with salt.

Serve the eggs on the tortillas with the salsa on top. Best with refried beans.

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Q&A

Q. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE KEY TO HAVING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS ON SALT SPRING ISLAND? A. When we moved back to Salt Spring in 1971, the store lost money for about six months a year. A couple of years ago I spoke to a consultant who had analyzed the operating statements of a local restaurant and came to the conclusion that three Augusts per year would solve its problems. Successful island retailers take advantage of the seasonal boom, but value the local customer year round to carry them through the tough times.

Q. YOU’VE BEEN A CHAMPION OF PROTECTING BC FERRIES SERVICE LEVELS FOR SALT SPRING. WHY HAS THAT BEEN SO IMPORTANT TO YOU? A. When in the ‘60s W.A.C. Bennett revolutionized the coastal ferry system, the future of reliable connections to Vancouver Island and the mainland seemed assured, but we need to be vigilant. During the ‘70s, BC Ferries proposed elimination of the Vesuvius-Crofton route, but with local push-back it was nixed. At the moment, BCF is required by the ferry commissioner to seek ways of rationalizing (code for “eliminate one”) the three ferry terminals on Salt Spring.

Imagine what that could mean.

Island Guy PHOTO BY GAIL SJUBERG

Retired Mouat’s Trading Co. president Tom Toynbee, Sr.

Q. WERE YOU BORN ON SALT SPRING ISLAND? A. Yes, I was born at the original Lady Minto Hospital on Ganges Hill, now home to the Community Services Society. The hospital bill, after discount, was $27.

Q. WHAT DID YOU DO AFTER LEAVING THE ISLAND AS A YOUNG ADULT AND WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO RETURN? A. I went on to UBC where I immersed myself in campus life: sports, student government and social activities. As to academics, it took six years to complete a five-year program, but I graduated in 1958 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

During university days I met Yvonne and we were married not long after graduation. My first job was with the retail division of an oil company, but after a short time it became clear this was not for me. I then started with a wholesale lumber company where I spent 12 years, six of them in Calgary, ending up as general manager.

In 1969 the three Toynbee brothers and wives, together with Norman and Carolyn Mouat, purchased Mouat’s store from our cousins. Two years later I was in the midst of negotiations on a move to another forest products company when brother Dick sold me on the potential of Salt Spring and Mouat’s. Somehow I talked Yvonne into the move, even though it meant leaving her stage and TV career behind.

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Q. YOU HAVE SUPPORTED NUMEROUS LOCAL CHARITABLE CAUSES OVER THE YEARS. IS THERE ONE THAT IS ESPECIALLY DEAR TO YOUR AND YVONNE’S HEARTS? A. Our family got a great deal of satisfaction from playing a part in the “funding to the finish” campaign for ArtSpring. Through the continuing efforts of many, many people and ongoing community support, this is truly a community success story.

Q. TWO YEARS AGO YOU ATTENDED A SPECIAL REUNION, DID YOU NOT? A. While at UBC I turned out for rowing and had the great good luck to be coached by legendary coach Frank Read, who instilled in his crews the belief that we could compete with the best in the world. The start of his success came in 1954 when we represented Canada in the British Empire Games in Vancouver and defeated highly favoured England for the gold medal. The 60th reunion was very special, as all crew members were alive and on hand. It seemed like old times.

Q. WHAT DO YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT AROUND THE BIG TABLE AT THE SALT SPRING GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB? A. The President’s Golf Academy (PGA) meets at the golf club for lunch on Fridays. This is a disorganized group with no particular membership rules and a highly diverse range of handicaps (golf, that is). Topics over lunch generally stay away from local issues, with Donald Trump currently garnering a fair amount of attention.

Q. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO SEE CHANGE ABOUT THE ISLAND? A. Most Salt Spring citizens care deeply about the island and many are prepared to speak out forcefully for or against ideas regarding the island’s future. This may have brought us the description of being “a disagreement surrounded by water,” and may be frustrating at times, but passionate engagement is very healthy.

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